University at Buffalo Department of English

Professors Diane Christian and Ken Dauber are to be recognized for 50 years of service to UB: http://www.buffalo.edu///UBawards/50-Years-of-Service.html. Huzzah!

Hats off to Nicole Lowman, as UB’s nominee for the Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, and for taking third place at the Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication conference for her presentation, Advising the Police Advisory Board: Toward a More Usable Technology.

Professor Dave Alff in the Washington Post on Biden's love of trains! https://www.washingtonpost.com//joe-bidens-love-amtrak-te/

Please join us for Patricia Matthew’s lecture, ‘The Cold Winds of Self-Scrutiny’: Race/Racism in the University Classroom, on Monday 12 October. She is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at UB’s Center for Diversity Innovation. For details, see https://calendar.buffalo.edu/e/patricia-a-matthew---talk-1/.

It’s never too late to join the 41st season of the Buffalo Film Seminars! Have a look, again, at the schedule of upcoming shows: http://www.buffalo.edu//stories/2020/08/buffalo-film-semin.

The Library of Congress has put online the finding aid to the first half of the Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian Collection. Congratulations! To search the listing of contents, see https://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collections//af018002.pdf

TODAY at 11.30: CDI Distinguished Visiting Scholar Professor Patricia Matthew on "The Georgian House, Fons Americanus, and the Afterlives of Abolition." Please contact Karen Serrianne for the Zoom link: [email protected].

Hodinöhsö:ni Geographies: Unsettling the Settler State. Please join Jolene Rickard, Mishuana Goeman, Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, and Meredith Palmer this Thursday (10/01, 4:00-5:15 pm EST) for a place-based discussion on meaningful acknowledgements in Hodinöhsö:ni traditional territories. Hodinöhsö:ni Geographies is co-sponsored by the UB Center for Diversity and Innovation, the UB Humanities Institute, and the College of Arts and Sciences. To register, go to: https://buffalo.zoom.us//tJUocemspzguH9XI1ga9Ejb7DW10E_Whu.

The Feminist Alliance Research Workshop and Gender Institute welcome our own Joseph Conte this Thursday (10/01) at noon, for a discussion of Transnational America: for registration details, please see https://calendar.buffalo.edu//joseph-m-conte-feminist-res/.

My chapter, Cosmopolitanism and Remigration in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, has been published in S...hifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders, and Identities, ed. Oana Celia Gheorghiu. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 3-22. See more

Please join us in welcoming the new English Department graduate students: Jacob Allen Madison Archard Alexandra Buscaglia Michelle Coopersmith ... Seth Davis Dana Fang Sebastian Galbo Catie Henzel Tyler Hudson Isaac Kolding John Madsen Bianca Rae Messinger Zanatul Noor Nate Portnoy’s Haley Reed Simon Ross Ian Santora Claire Tranchino See more

Check out Patricia Matthew's interview with Lavelle Porter in LARB:https://lareviewofbooks.org//blackademic-lives-matter-an-/

The English Department is pleased to announce that four Visiting Assistant Professors have joined us for the coming year. They are Hunter Capps, Hannah Fogarty, Martin Goffeney, and Michael Pawluk. Welcome!