Professor Ammiel Alcalay (GC/Queens, English) has won an American Book Award in recognition of his work as the founder and general editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a chapbook series that features genre-bending writing. Read more
GC students and faculty have garnered numerous awards and fellowships this year. Here, we celebrate a few. Read more
The Slave Owner’s Foreign Policy
The New York Review of Books, 6.22.17 Read more
LuAnn Walther (Ph.D. '78, English) is the quiet force behind the success of bestselling paperbacks by Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Oliver Sacks, Chinua Achebe, and Colson Whitehead, among others. Read more
The Right to Hear Controversial Ideas
Inside Higher Ed, 5.22.17 Read more
Ph.D. candidate Danica Savonick (English) is one of 10 doctoral students nationwide to receive a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies. Read more
In a recent BOMB Magazine feature, Professor Ammiel Alcalay (GC/Queens, English) reviews two new books that, in his words, give us a “fuller picture of the enormity” of Jack Kerouac’s literary achievement, which until now has been largely “misunderstood, denigrated, and distorted.” Read more
The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online
Pew Research Center, “Internet, Science & Tech,” 3.29.17 Read more
Leaked: Further Travel Restrictions From the Trump Administration
Dissent Magazine, 3.21.17 Read more
Saving Our Heritage
Inside Higher Ed, 3.20.17 Read more