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[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

Interested in a PhD in English at NYU? Then come to our virtual open house!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“Compensation,” Zeinabu irene Davis’s first fiction feature, is now getting its theatrical release, 25 years after its première. “It’s a many-faceted film that, in the span of a mere hour and a half, keeps revealing wonders,” @tnyfrontrow writes. https://t.co/fLyTw0JwRM

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

Congratulations to Patty Okoh-Esene for winning NYU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award! As Professor Noel noted in his nomination “Patty is a rock of our department…and a community bridge builder” and we all agree! https://t.co/ikGSgMJIe5

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

read more about the prize here: https://t.co/YhVusuqinT

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We are excited to announce that NYU has awarded the 2024 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama and Theatre to "Malicious Deceivers: Thinking Machines and Performative Objects" by Ioana B. Jucan

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

congratulations to professors Jucan, Peters, and Fleming! This year we received a record number of nominations in books on theatre, drama, and performance studies, so this is quite an amazing feat!

[Colin Vanderburg @cgvanderburg]

Calling all Moore heads: Thurs, Nov 21, @NYUEnglish hosts a centenary celebration of Marianne Moore's eternally surprising, challenging, language-renovating debut book Observations. We'll read, talk, riff, schmooze, and “discover . . . after all, a place for the genuine”—join us!

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

Please join us this Wednesday at 5pm for the final Creative Reading Series event of the semester. We are excited to invite Amelia Bande, Writer in Residence in Spanish and Portuguese, sharing from her interdisciplinary work under the title, Rehearsal Abyss.

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

This week in the NYU English Department: A reading group discussion about sex and gender in speculative fiction with Professor Jenny Mann! There is also Terrance Hayes Reads: Selected Poems from Then and Now! Come check out these riveting events we have to share with you and NYU!

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

This week, the NYU English Department is hosting a series of events for NYU students. From Conversations about the Medical Humanities and Trauma Studies to Poetry Hangouts to a Halloween party, there is something for everyone! Use the QR codes on the posts to sign up for events!

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

This week at the NYU English Department there are a series of events that NYU students can attend. This week's events highlight Voices from Palestine, censorship, Arab modernities, and more. To sign up for the individual events, scan the QR code! #nyu #nyuenglish

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This Friday, October 11th, from 4pm-6pm. Prof. Boxall will be giving remarks on his new book, The Possibility of Literature, which collects two decades of essays addressing the search for new paradigms and methodologies of reading. You can RSVP for the event below. #nyu

[NYU English @NYUEnglish]

Tomorrow! @CBA_NYU and The Department of English Creative Reading Series Present:
Adriano Machado reads Afro-Inventive Territories
Thursday, October 10th, 6pm
16 Cooper Sq. NYU ID required

[Colin Vanderburg @cgvanderburg]

Friday, Oct 18 at @NYUEnglish and on Zoom: the Global Modernisms Group hosts a discussion of aesthetic responses to modernity across Egypt, Palestine, and Lebanon, with fascinating and all too timely contributions by Ziad Dallal, @ykhayyat, and @Mepbon. Open to all with RSVP.

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Congratulations to our NYU colleague Jennifer Morgan @SCAatNYU @NYUHistory who was just named as a MacArthur Fellow!
https://t.co/FtSJSmwfZH…

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Thank you to Julia Jarcho for last night’s electrifying talk, and for everyone who joined us!

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Wendy Lee will deliver the Fall 2024 NYU College of Arts & Science Bentson Dean’s Lecture. “The Meanings of Consent—What’s Behind ‘Yes Means Yes’,” on Thursday, September 19 at 5:30 p.m RSVP here https://t.co/hUR7PVI6F2

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We’re Hiring!
Read more about the Assistant Professor in Native American and Indigenous Studies search https://t.co/LhYFeK8d0R