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-November 11th, 2021-
NYU department of English Creative Readings Series Presents:
Terrance Hayes reads Yusef Komunyakaa and Robert Hayden
Please join us on Wednesday, November 17th at 12:30 pm (244 Greene St 1st Floor) to hear Terrance Hayes read Yusef Komunyakaa’s “My Father’s Love Letters” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.” Hayes will lead the audience in a short creative exercise, so come prepared to write!
Terrance Hayes’s poetry collections include American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018), finalist for the National Book Award; How to Be Drawn (2015), finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award; Lighthead (2010), winner of the National Book Award and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Wind in a Box (2006), finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award; Hip Logic (2002), chosen for the National Poetry Series and finalist for an LA Times Book Award and an Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award; and Muscular Music (1999), winner of a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems have also been featured in several editions of Best American Poetry and have won multiple Pushcart Prizes. He is also the author of a prose book based on his Bagley Wright lectures: To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight (Wave Books, 2018), which was winner of the Poetry Foundation's 2019 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism.
Hayes’s additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes is currently professor of English at New York University.
RSVP to the event on our eventbrite page.
As a reminder about NYU Events:
- Only NYU students, faculty and staff can RSVP
- All attendees must RSVP
- All individuals must show the Daily Screener green pass screen prior to entry to the building
- Eating and drinking are not permitted at indoor events.
- Everyone must wear a mask/face covering that covers both the mouth and nose at all times.
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Demystifying Grad School - November 15, 6pm
The Graduate History Student Association at New York University is putting together a two-part panel for students considering graduate school in the humanities on November 15th 2020 at 6PM, on Zoom. Here’s the eventbrite sign-up link for it.
We have also put together a list of fully funded Master's Programs in history and related fields and a template for students in the graduate application process for tracking and maintaining their applications that we would be very grateful if you would send around and delighted if it would be of use!
Whether you’re finishing up your PhD application for December, applying for a Master’s in the Spring 2022 semester, or looking towards a PhD next cycle, the NYU graduate history student association is putting on a panel for you!
This panel will give people considering graduate school in the humanities a look into the application process and some tips about how to game the elitist and exclusionary process of admissions at major universities.
It will consist of a presentation by faculty who evaluate graduate applications to the NYU and Northern Arizona University history departments on what that process looks like and then a panel discussion and question-and-answer session with current PhD and Master’s students on all things graduate applications and personal statements.
Bring your questions, your anger, your excitement and your despair and let us try to demystify this process together!
Demystifying Grad School
Monday, November 15, 6 :00PM
After the event we will be sending around a collection of resources that students at NYU have put together for people in every process of their graduate application journey.
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5. Permission Numbers.
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6. Mentorship Program for English Majors and Minors: ENGL-UA 999
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-November 4th, 2021-
SPRING '22: REGISTRATION / CLEARANCE / ADVISING
Please see the recently updated page of current courses for English here.
1. As we noted previously: CAS will "batch clear" all of its students with declared majors for spring 2022 enrollment, except for students who are on academic probation.
2. ADVISING MEETINGS: You are still very VERY strongly encouraged to come to see us in person (or virtually if that works better, just send us a note when you book an appt.) for advising to make sure you know what classes you need to take, and that the courses you are selecting will cover your requirements correctly.
3. ADVISING HOURS: The week before advising and the week of advising we will have extra advising hours on top of our regular hours. Please book an appt to make sure we have time to discuss everything, and please feel free to book an appointment with anyone listed, we are all experts! Sign up here: https://as.nyu.edu/english/undergraduate/advising-and-office-hours.html
4. Are you a Senior on the creative writing track? Make sure to sign up to take the capstone/colloquium in the spring if you need it! (if you already did this please wait for us to send you permission codes, we are working on it!)
You must apply for the Creative Writing Track Capstone/Colloquium. APPLY HERE.
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Massie & McQuilkin seeks intelligent and versatile interns interested in a career in book publishing. The ideal candidate will be able to commit 10-15 hours a week, 2 days a week, though we are flexible in regard to scheduling. Internships last about 3 months, with academic credit available. We will hire two remote interns and two in-person interns per season. Please indicate in your cover letter which position you are applying for.
The intern’s main duties will revolve around managing and responding to unsolicited queries and manuscripts, and will involve evaluating this material with an eye to its quality, relevance to the agent queried, and its viability in the marketplace. A critical eye is necessary for this position. Additional projects may be assigned that will address other aspects of agenting, including foreign rights and contracts. As with any internship, a part of the position will be general administrative work, but we will do our best to work with individual interests. To apply, please email Max Moorhead (max@mmqlit.com) and Maddie Woda (maddie@mmqlit.com) with a cover letter in the body and your resume as an attachment. Please submit your application during the following periods: Spring: November 1-November 21
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Virtual Non-Profit & Government Fair
November 19, 1-4PM ET, Virtual
Connect with non-profit and government organizations! The virtual Government & Non-Profit Career Fair is an exciting collaborative event between George Washington University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, and Women's Foreign Policy Group to educate students from all majors and academic backgrounds about non-profit and government organization career paths within their field of study. Register for the Virtual Non-Profit & Government Fair.
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November 16, 9:30-10:30AM ET, Virtual
Do you love to read? Do you look at social media first thing when you wake up to see what’s new in the world of culture and ideas? Can you see yourself seeking a career in publishing? The NYUSPS Center for Publishing offers programs to help students enter the publishing and media industries. Join us to learn more about these programs and careers in publishing and meet with NYU MS in Publishing and Summer Publishing Institute staff and alumni. Please note, this event will begin at 9:30am EST. Register for Careers in Publishing.
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Apply by November 12: January 2022 Podcasting Course Scholarships
Podcasting and Audio Storytelling JOUR-UA 202 will be offered online and will provide a comprehensive overview of podcasting, drawing speakers from throughout the podcast industry.
Some important details about this course:
- There are 15 spots in the course in total. Five of these spots are available for regular enrollment (which began on October 18 for J-Term).
- The other ten spots will be funded through a Spotify scholarship designed for people from groups who are underrepresented in podcasting.
To be considered for a Spotify scholarship for this course, please complete this brief application no later than Friday, November 12, 2021. Students will be notified of selection decisions in late November.
Questions? Email the undergraduate adviser for the Journalism department, Andrea Brown Murga, at andrea.brown@nyu.edu.
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AI + Literature: AI Innovation Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Data Science
The AI Innovation Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Data Science equips students with in-demand skills like data analysis in Python, statistics in R, and machine learning with tools like Tensorflow and Keras. Leveraging these new tools, students build out a professional portfolio with a capstone project, AI + X, that draws on students' unique interest and domain expertise. Literature students can use AI to innovate novel research and project directions– developing approaches at the niche intersection of AI and Literature to broaden appreciation and impact of AI to this world. Students can discover how common machine learning systems trained on textual data can leak sensitive information and, additionally, can devise systems guaranteed to protect textual privacy. For more information: Visit inspiritinnovators.com and see our AI + Literature flyer. Applications are now open here: http://bit.ly/AIplusX and the deadline to apply is November 20th. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Adeesh Goel at adeesh@alumni.stanford.edu or call +1 (803) 859-5855.
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JOB OPPORTUNITY - ART & CLIMATE ACTION -Part Time Position - COORDINATOR *For those of you graduating Soon.*
Earth Celebrations, a non-profit organization engaging communities to generate ecological & social change through the arts, is offering a job opportunity position as Coordinator for our ECOLOGICAL CITY: Art & Climate Solutions Action Project on the Lower East Side of New York City.
JANUARY – MAY
The Coordinator position (part-time) is available for Earth Celebrations' Ecological City: Art & Climate Solutions Project, applying the arts to build community, collaboration and action on local climate solutions initiatives throughout the community gardens, neighborhood and waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City.
Skills: theatrical-arts-event production and coordination, logistics management and community-engagment.
Responsibilities:
- Manages project logistics, event production and community engagement.
- Oversees and manages workshops, materials purchases and coordination of participants.
- Supervises interns and production volunteers.
Qualifications:
- BFA, MFA, or BA
- Ability to manage production logistics and lead a team of volunteer and community participants.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Adobe Suites.
Interest and Background: community-based arts/theater, creative placemaking, community outreach/organizing, environmental and climate issues, urban planning and activism.
Part-Time: minimum 12-24 hours per week from January - May
TO APPLY
Send resume to: mail@earthcelebrations.com
SUBJECT LINE: "COORDINATOR POSITION"
Website: https://www.earthcelebrations.com
https://earthcelebrations.com/news-blog/
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NYU BeTogether Community Gathering for Students
Friday, November 5th
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. EDT
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Secrets to Success Faculty Panel, on Monday, November 8, 2021 at 5:30 - 6:30 pm.
Registration link here. This event is co-sponsored by CAS Proud to Be First and the Wasserman Center for Career Development First Class Program.
The program will feature CAS faculty sharing tips for student success, while also providing insights into their own educational journeys as first-generation college students. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from faculty who were first in their family to complete a college degree and to build your network at CAS. The program is open to the entire NYU community, so feel free to tell a friend and come with your questions for our faculty members!
Christopher Edling, MFA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Expository Writing Program
Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo, PhD
Associate Research scholar/ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of History and MEIS
Joanne Hyppolite, PhD (Moderator)
Associate Dean, CAS Advising and Student Services
To learn more about the sponsors of the program, please visit the Proud to Be First website.
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*NEW* J-TERM COURSE AVAILABLE! Register Now! OPEN TO ALL!
ENGL-UA 201: Reading as a Writer: The Art of the Parody | MTWR 12:00PM-3:00PM (in-person) | Prof. Vanderburg | Class# 1629
Reading as a Writer: The Art of the Parody. Sharp insights into an author's style are often afforded by trying—whether in admiration, irony, or derision—to imitate it. Given the brevity of J-term, we'll focus on relatively compact mediums of parody: poems, essays, and short stories. These will range from Shelley's imitation of Wordsworth, to Zora Neale Hurston's pseudo-Old Testament narration of a young black woman's migration to Harlem, to Frank O'Hara's mock-manifesto for an imagined poetic movement called Personism, and beyond. Reading these works alongside the texts they satirize, we'll ask: what makes an authorial "voice"? Why have parody and satire come to occupy such a central place in our culture and media? How do we read for different kinds of tone, irony, or satire? How and why do we write ironically, and how can it enrich our understanding of other writers' styles and subjects, and our own? Students will also be invited to write their own parodies across a variety of subjects and genres.
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EXTENDED - Greene St. Review: Fall 2021 Call For Submissions
Students and young writers in and around New York City — have any ideas for reviews, essays, and interviews? The Greene Street Review, the NYU English Department’s bi-annual review of culture and literature, is now accepting submissions for our Fall 2021 issue: Homecoming. Please email submissions to greenestreetreview@nyu.edu. Click here for more information.
Exciting news, our submission deadline is now extended! We are still accepting completed submissions (up to 2500 words) until November 8th, 2021. This is a great chance to get your original work published by NYU’s premier literary journal. Share this call with friends, students, and fellow writers — join us in our first issue back on Washington Square!
Terrance Hayes reads Yusef Komunyakaa and Robert Hayden
Hayes’s additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes is currently professor of English at New York University.
- Only NYU students, faculty and staff can RSVP
- All attendees must RSVP
- All individuals must show the Daily Screener green pass screen prior to entry to the building
- Eating and drinking are not permitted at indoor events.
- Everyone must wear a mask/face covering that covers both the mouth and nose at all times.
This panel will give people considering graduate school in the humanities a look into the application process and some tips about how to game the elitist and exclusionary process of admissions at major universities.
It will consist of a presentation by faculty who evaluate graduate applications to the NYU and Northern Arizona University history departments on what that process looks like and then a panel discussion and question-and-answer session with current PhD and Master’s students on all things graduate applications and personal statements.
--> Check your enrollment appointment day and time by signing into your Student Center and clicking on "details" in the "Enrollment Dates" section. Appointment days and times are based on the Eastern Time zone.
--> And validate them again 24 hours before you register in case any pre-reqs have changed. Click here for the guide. If Albert lets you know there is a problem with one of your courses, reach out to the proper folks for assistance (see #3).
--> For example, For ENGL-UA or DRLIT-UA class help, reach out to me. If you want to take a SCA-UA course, reach out to them! The Creative Writing Program is a separate dept--reach out to them for help enrolling in any CRWRI-UA class.
--> This means everything will go smoothly if it is your turn to get off the waitlist and into your class. If you don't do this and have too many credits for/a schedule conflict with your waitlisted class, you won't automatically be added, and will hold up the list for others. Click here for the guide.
--> If you receive a permission number for a class, you will need to add it to the class as you add it to your cart. Here are the instructions for use.
--> This is a zero-credit class, and is optional--however we strongly encourage you to enroll so we can work with you next semester to pair you with a faculty member and invite you to special programming. Enroll yourself in the section that matches your "year:" 1. freshmen, 2. sophomores, 3. juniors, 4. seniors.
Terrance Hayes reads Yusef Komunyakaa and Robert Hayden
Hayes’s additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes is currently professor of English at New York University.
- Only NYU students, faculty and staff can RSVP
- All attendees must RSVP
- All individuals must show the Daily Screener green pass screen prior to entry to the building
- Eating and drinking are not permitted at indoor events.
- Everyone must wear a mask/face covering that covers both the mouth and nose at all times.
This panel will give people considering graduate school in the humanities a look into the application process and some tips about how to game the elitist and exclusionary process of admissions at major universities.
It will consist of a presentation by faculty who evaluate graduate applications to the NYU and Northern Arizona University history departments on what that process looks like and then a panel discussion and question-and-answer session with current PhD and Master’s students on all things graduate applications and personal statements.
--> Check your enrollment appointment day and time by signing into your Student Center and clicking on "details" in the "Enrollment Dates" section. Appointment days and times are based on the Eastern Time zone.
--> And validate them again 24 hours before you register in case any pre-reqs have changed. Click here for the guide. If Albert lets you know there is a problem with one of your courses, reach out to the proper folks for assistance (see #3).
--> For example, For ENGL-UA or DRLIT-UA class help, reach out to me. If you want to take a SCA-UA course, reach out to them! The Creative Writing Program is a separate dept--reach out to them for help enrolling in any CRWRI-UA class.
--> This means everything will go smoothly if it is your turn to get off the waitlist and into your class. If you don't do this and have too many credits for/a schedule conflict with your waitlisted class, you won't automatically be added, and will hold up the list for others. Click here for the guide.
--> If you receive a permission number for a class, you will need to add it to the class as you add it to your cart. Here are the instructions for use.
--> This is a zero-credit class, and is optional--however we strongly encourage you to enroll so we can work with you next semester to pair you with a faculty member and invite you to special programming. Enroll yourself in the section that matches your "year:" 1. freshmen, 2. sophomores, 3. juniors, 4. seniors.
Terrance Hayes reads Yusef Komunyakaa and Robert Hayden
Hayes’s additional honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Pittsburgh. Hayes is currently professor of English at New York University.
- Only NYU students, faculty and staff can RSVP
- All attendees must RSVP
- All individuals must show the Daily Screener green pass screen prior to entry to the building
- Eating and drinking are not permitted at indoor events.
- Everyone must wear a mask/face covering that covers both the mouth and nose at all times.
This panel will give people considering graduate school in the humanities a look into the application process and some tips about how to game the elitist and exclusionary process of admissions at major universities.
It will consist of a presentation by faculty who evaluate graduate applications to the NYU and Northern Arizona University history departments on what that process looks like and then a panel discussion and question-and-answer session with current PhD and Master’s students on all things graduate applications and personal statements.
--> Check your enrollment appointment day and time by signing into your Student Center and clicking on "details" in the "Enrollment Dates" section. Appointment days and times are based on the Eastern Time zone.
--> And validate them again 24 hours before you register in case any pre-reqs have changed. Click here for the guide. If Albert lets you know there is a problem with one of your courses, reach out to the proper folks for assistance (see #3).
--> For example, For ENGL-UA or DRLIT-UA class help, reach out to me. If you want to take a SCA-UA course, reach out to them! The Creative Writing Program is a separate dept--reach out to them for help enrolling in any CRWRI-UA class.
--> This means everything will go smoothly if it is your turn to get off the waitlist and into your class. If you don't do this and have too many credits for/a schedule conflict with your waitlisted class, you won't automatically be added, and will hold up the list for others. Click here for the guide.
--> If you receive a permission number for a class, you will need to add it to the class as you add it to your cart. Here are the instructions for use.
--> This is a zero-credit class, and is optional--however we strongly encourage you to enroll so we can work with you next semester to pair you with a faculty member and invite you to special programming. Enroll yourself in the section that matches your "year:" 1. freshmen, 2. sophomores, 3. juniors, 4. seniors.