1. Announcements
We are pleased to announce that Heidi Jorgenson will join the English Department office staff next week, on Tuesday, September 3, as the new Subject Matter/Composition Administrative Assistant. You can find her in ST 707 (Erin’s old office). Please stop by and welcome her!
As discussed at the recent English Department Retreat, the English Department will be conducting a job search for two positions: African American Literature & Culture and Latinx Literature & Culture. Anthony Dawahare, Chris Higgs, and Sandra Stanley compose the Search & Screen Committee and look forward to the opportunity to fill these important positions.
2. Reminders
The Academic Programming Fund and Distinguished Visiting Speaker Program applications are due on September 11.
3. Opportunities
Applications to the Fulbright scholar program can now be made until September 16, 2019. The new deadline applies to candidates for all countries. For more information, visit https://awards.cies.org
The application deadlines for the 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship are quickly approaching. Radcliffe fellows are exceptional scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and in the larger world. Based in Radcliffe Yard—a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University—fellows join a uniquely interdisciplinary and creative community. A fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project. With access to Harvard’s unparalleled resources, Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate our past and our present. Applications in humanities, social sciences, and creative arts are due by September 12, 2019, and applications in science, engineering, and mathematics are due by October 3, 2019. For more information, please write to fellowships@radcliffe.harvard.edu.
4. Achievements
Matt Bernstein, an alum who graduated from CSUN with an M.A. in Literature in 2005, has a forthcoming article, “The Playwright Who Captured Geronimo,” in the upcoming issue of Wild West magazine.
Steve Wexler presented his paper, “The Alethization Problem and Our Transformative Digital Publics,” at MIT’s Media in Transition 10: “Democracy and Digital Media” Conference.