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The Department of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, offers students a liberal arts experience at a large, public, research university.

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📢 Announcement: We're Moving! The University at Buffalo Department of English is deactivating this account and transitioning to Bluesky. We hope to continue the conversation with you there! 📖✨ Follow us: @ubenglish.bsky.social

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Congratulations to UB English PhD candidate Bianca Messinger, whose first full-length book of poems, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦, comes out tomorrow with Nightboat Books! https://t.co/PvheXvOfBl

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She will be presenting her work, "Dastur Dr. Dhalla Collection: A Case Study on Zoroastrian Community Libraries," on January 16, 2025. Read more and register by visiting https://t.co/T4FnAN1yZv (2 of 2)

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More congratulations are in order! The Bibliographical Society of America has named UB English PhD Candidate Sharmeen Mehri to its New Scholars Program cohort. https://t.co/qMvi5BP6Nm (1 of 2)

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The fellowships support travel and research related to the completion of a dissertation, generation of a publishable peer-edited journal essay, or production of other publishable outcomes. (2 of 2)

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Sharmeen Mehri, who has been awarded an MLA Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship for her project “Roshni Rustomji-Kerns: Diasporic Entanglements and Parsi Women Writers." https://t.co/SsFMDxODvy (1 of 2)

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Dr. Shilina-Conte is also the recipient of a UB Gender Institute research grant. Read more here: https://t.co/aOD21F9lhH

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Congrats to Tanya Shilina-Conte, whose book, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴: 𝘎𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘻𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦, has just been published by Oxford University Press! Read more about it here: https://t.co/FAdrkhDAvh

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Congrats to Andy Lindquist, the winner of the Graduate School’s 2024 Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award for his dissertation “(Re)Imagining Community: Settler Anxiety, Ethnographic Desire, and Haudenosaunee Nationalisms in the Assimilation Era!”
https://t.co/ztV1hwbyzX

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Congratulations to #UBuffalo Department of English Assistant Professor Tanya Shilina-Conte, who received a $5000 Faculty Grant for Global and International Research from the Office of International Education for her new book project, "Anonymous Cinema in the Global Age!"

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Congrats to #UBuffalo Prof. Kellie Sharp, who has been awarded a Civic Engagement Research Fund grant to collaborate with the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project to bring local queer history to various sites around Buffalo in June 2025! Read more: https://t.co/DzbiNNvUfF

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Scholars@Hallwalls: Elizabeth Mazzolini
Friday, Oct. 25, 4 p.m.
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Juxtapositions LECTURE SERIES FALL 2024
Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi: "The Visual Order of Black Bodies: On Black Photographic Archives from Camera Obscura to Digital Camera"
Thursday, October 24
3:30 pm - 306 Clemens Hall

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Poetics Plus **TOMORROW** Tuesday, October 22, 7:30 pm at Fitz Books.
Please join the #UBuffalo Poetics Program and Department of Art for a reading with Eleni Stecopoulos.

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Friday, Oct. 25 | 4 p.m.

Scholars@Hallwalls: Elizabeth Mazzolini (@bethmazzo), #UBuffalo Department of English

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202)

"The Power We Squander: Paying Attention to Three Mile Island"

https://t.co/mItLhn3kMX

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Congratulations to #UBuffalo English PhD Candidate Jocelyn E. Marshall, who has been awarded the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association x University of Illinois Press First Book Prize for “Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism!”

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Please join us in celebrating the recipients of our Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize and Honorable Mention, the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize and Honorable Mention, the Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, and the NWSA x University of Illinois Press First Book Prize.

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Juxtapositions Fall 2024 Lecture Series
Stephen Best (UC Berkeley)
"Baldwin's Inarticulacy"
Wednesday, October 16 4:00 pm
306 Clemens Hall
Free and open to the public.

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Exhibit X Fiction Presents
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Novelist Ed Park
Tuesday October 8

Conversation: 5:30 (Hallwalls Gallery)
Reading: 7:00pm (Hallwalls Cinema)
Transportation: Free Stampede shuttle, CFA circle 4:45pm (Returns 8pm)
Refreshments
Free and open to the public.

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#UBuffalo Department of English Visiting Assistant Professor Laura Marris will be delivering a talk this Friday, Sept 27, in 120 Clemens at 2:00 pm. The talk is titled “The Age of Loneliness: Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Community Science.”

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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥’𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦 features Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern and Victoria Tennant. Introduction by Chad Lavin, Associate Professor, UB Department of English. (3/3)

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Banned Books Week Movie Event: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥’𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦

Wednesday, September 25, 2024
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Capen 310

Open to all members of the UB community.

Refreshments will be served. (1/3)
https://t.co/RY7Zx7Xy8d

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In recognition of Banned Books Week, the University Libraries will host a film screening of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥’𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦, Harold Pinter's 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel about a servant in a futuristic, male-dominated society. (2/3)