Dear all,
Welcome to the Spring 2025 semester! Please be sure to let me know if you have any achievements or accomplishments that you would like to share.
Reminders
Submitting syllabi and office hours: If you haven’t already, please send your syllabi and office hours to Vanessa Mendoza.
English Department Canvas Majors and Minors Page: Please encourage your students to join the English Department’s Canvas English Majors and Minors Page, in which they can self-enroll by following this link. Please also consider joining yourself to receive the updates and information that our students receive.
Announcements
Queer Studies, English Archives Senior Seminar, and CTVA will host a talk with film director/writer Chase Joynt!
March 4, Tuesday
4-6pm
Whitsett Room
Sierra Hall 451
Please make sure you note this on your syllabus where applicable. Two great Joynt pieces that are excellent for classes are, for example, the article “Anxiety at the Archive” and the film Framing Agnes.
Achievements
Erika Ayón (MA 2024) was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Alta California Chapbook Prize for her collection Create Birds, judged by Richard Blanco.
Professor Audrey Thacker has been chosen as a 2025 Fellow of the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) and in that capacity attended an immersive 3-day AEN Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement Fellows conference in Miami in January focused on developing strategies for combating campus antisemitism and creating meaningful academic discourse concerning Jewish- and antisemitism-related issues. For more information and to learn about the CSUN Alliance Against Antisemitism, which is spearheading these efforts at CSUN, contact Audrey: audrey.thacker@csun.edu.
In January, Professor Kim Wells presented her talk “Teaching and the Gig Economy: The Never-Ending Cycle of Part-Timing” as a panelist in the roundtable forum HEP Teaching as a Profession at the 2025 MLA Convention.