Drupal Demo Page
This page uses the General Page template, and this summary is entered using the "Intro Text" field, which allows basic text formatting options. An optional banner image is included below. (This can also be a video.)

This page uses the General Page template, and this summary is entered using the "Intro Text" field, which allows basic text formatting options. An optional banner image is included below. (This can also be a video.)
This is the Body field.
The body is the main content area of the page
As a general rule the body should always be populated with content, even if no other pages sections or components are used.
The field is a WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get - which allows you to visually enter and format content including basic text, links/buttons, headings bulleted and numbered lists, tables, and embedded media like images and videos.
Another WYSIWYG field is available as an optional component in the Page Sections portion of the template, which you can use in combination with other components to add extra content below the menu section.
Page Sections
Below the body and top accordions is the Page Sections area, which spans the full width of the page and is made up of a customizable set of mix-and-match components to display static and dynamic content. These components can be added in any quantity and in any combination, and can easily be re-ordered using a drag-and-drop feature.
An example of each available component is included below - use these links to jump quickly to the component you would like to see. (Note: This intro has been added using the WYSIWYG component!)
Accordions | Book Components | Checkerboards | Contacts | Differentiators | Event Components | Forms | FYIs | Gallery | Listing | News | Profiles | Testimonials
Book Components
The component below is the Book Feature component, which displays the three most recently published book posts matching selected parameters (author, topic, and/or department). The component also includes an optional clickthrough link, which you can use to link to a full archive of matching books.
A related component, the Book Listing, is also available, which displays ALL book posts matching the selected parameters. Note that these lists are often very long, which means this component may not be suitable for use on a general page alongside other content and components. We recommend placing the Book Listing component on a separate, dedicated page and using the optional link in the Book Feature to direct users to view the full archive. You can see this approach in action in the demo component below.
Book Feature
Optional link to direct users to a full archive of books
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley
A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution.
Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and Milton, she composed elegies for local elites, celebrated political events, praised warriors, and used her verse to variously lampoon, question, and assert the injustice of her enslaved condition. “Can I then but pray / Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” By doing so, she added her voice to a vibrant, multisided conversation about race, slavery, and discontent with British rule; before and after her emancipation, her verses shook up racial etiquette and used familiar forms to create bold new meanings. She demonstrated a complex but crucial fact of the times: that the American Revolution both strengthened and limited Black slavery.
In this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the fullest account to date of Wheatley’s life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of her verse and the revolutionary era. Throughout The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, he demonstrates the continued vitality and resonance of a woman who wrote, in a founding gesture of American literature, “Thy Power, O Liberty, makes strong the weak / And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak.”
Published March 2023
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Callimachus, Vol. 1
Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems
Callimachus (ca. 303–ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world center of literature, science, and scholarship; and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and prose on an astounding variety of subjects, including the Pinakes, a descriptive bibliography of the Library’s holdings in 120 volumes. Callimachus’ vast learning richly informs his poetry, which ranges broadly and reworks the language and generic properties of his predecessors in inventive, refined, and expressive ways. The “Callimachean” style, combining learning, elegance, and innovation and prizing brevity, clarity, lightness, and charm, served as an important model for later poets, not least at Rome for Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the elegists, among others.
This edition, which replaces the earlier Loeb editions by A. W. Mair (1921) and C. A. Trypanis (1954, 1958), presents all that currently survives of and about Callimachus and his works, including the ancient commentaries (Diegeseis) and scholia. Volume I contains Aetia, Iambi, and lyric poems; Volume II, Hecale, Hymns, and Epigrams; and Volume III, miscellaneous epics and elegies, other fragments, and testimonia, together with concordances and a general index.
Published December 2022
Harvard University Press

Callimachus, Vol. II
Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams
Callimachus (ca. 303–ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped establish the Library and Museum as a world center of literature, science, and scholarship; and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and prose on an astounding variety of subjects, including the Pinakes, a descriptive bibliography of the Library’s holdings in 120 volumes. Callimachus’ vast learning richly informs his poetry, which ranges broadly and reworks the language and generic properties of his predecessors in inventive, refined, and expressive ways. The “Callimachean” style, combining learning, elegance, and innovation and prizing brevity, clarity, lightness, and charm, served as an important model for later poets, not least at Rome for Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the elegists, among others.
This edition, which replaces the earlier Loeb editions by A. W. Mair (1921) and C. A. Trypanis (1954, 1958), presents all that currently survives of and about Callimachus and his works, including the ancient commentaries (Diegeseis) and scholia. Volume I contains Aetia, Iambi, and lyric poems; Volume II, Hecale, Hymns, and Epigrams; and Volume III, miscellaneous epics and elegies, other fragments, and testimonia, together with concordances and a general index.
Published December 2022
Harvard University Press
Book Listing (All matching chosen parameters)

The Animal of Existence
Language is a dangerous burning woods. ‘What's at stake is thus far what survives the inferno’. And in those hot thickets, The Animal of Existence by Jared Daniel Fagen is itself a complex animal — crouching, questioning, restless, at times stalking the edges of consciousness, at times wild of mouth, with an electric charged bite. It offers a series of poetic prose texts, hybrid in their inventive logics of narrative and syntax, each piece carrying distinct music and texture. ‘I am walled and rung alive by your love, your love annihilated me from the territory of circumferences, of your retina.’ This book powerfully wrangles alienation and identity as well as grief, hard feelings, and ‘the mourning dusk of us’. The angles are vividly torqued and they touch the delicate nerves. ‘Say I a wound instead.’
Jared Daniel Fagen is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center.
Published October 2022
Black Square Editions

After Cooling
On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
By Eric Dean Wilson (Ph.D. candidate in English)
This “ambitious [and] delightful” (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world.
In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant’s life span from its invention in the 1920s—when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress—to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm.
Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture—in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values—combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. “Meticulously researched and engagingly written” (Amitav Ghosh), this “knockout debut” (New York Journal of Books) offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face.
Published July 2022
Simon & Schuster

Women's Work
By Madeleine Barnes (Ph.D. candidate in English)
Fusing original embroidery art, digital collage, and poetry that draws from the Public Domain, Women’s Work is a hybrid poetry chapbook that treads the frontier between the handmade and the digital. Each poem pulls text from sewing instructions and advertisements, layered over the scanned backs of the author’s original embroideries—messy threads that reveal traces of order. Exploring women’s labor, expression, sexuality, disobedience, and gender-based expectations of virtue, this chapbook pays tribute to women’s work and art, illuminating the dangers and adventures inherent to creating as a woman.
Published February 2021
Tolsun Books

Glaring
By Benjamin Krusling (Ph.D. candidate in English)
Glaring: a sustained look of anger, an obvious fact, a situation of such brightness and intensity that vision is obscured. In his debut book of poems, Krusling is concerned with reading domination and violence and entering their psychotic motion, the better to do otherwise. Through the thicket of anti-blackness, militarism, surveillance, impoverishment, and interpersonal abuse and violence, Glaring investigates the things that haunt daily life and make love difficult, possible, necessary.
Published December 2020
Wendy's Subway

You Do Not Have To Be Good
By Madeleine Barnes (Ph.D. candidate in English)
Chosen for the 2019 Trio House Open Reading Selection, You Do Not Have To Be Good utilizes powerful lyricism to illuminate the soul's perseverance to live. Barnes intimately immerses us in what it means to be chronically ill and reflects on the body's connection to the planet. While the body succumbs to illness, Barnes expresses illness that tides silence, "everything / fell apart in my mouth in piles of razors / that severed language, my only tether to Earth." You Do Not Have To Be Good guides us through the ways modern medicine attempts to heal the body, as the poet bravely confides in her reader that she searches for solace in poetry's galaxy.
Published May 2020
Trio House Press

Sex, High Heels, and Woolf
A History of Feminist Polemics
Why do feminism's biggest critics always come from within? From sexual polemics, literary polemics to cultural polemics, re-summon forgotten historical controversies, and re-excavate buried historical conflicts. Sex, High Heels, and Woolf looks at how literary classics, social movements, and popular culture redefined the alternative history of feminism in the twentieth century.
Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, revisiting the development of feminist theory, and stringing together a history with polemics, this book examines why feminists fight and what they fought about
From Jane Austen to Woolf, how did Woolf, who was regarded as a pioneer of feminism, spark a century of debate in the literary world because of A Room of One’s Own? How did Jane Austen start a feminist battle of ideas? How did "Queer Jane Austen" become an escape route for classic literature?
From Kinsey Scale to lesbian S&M, the rise of erotic research triggered feminist sexuality debate. How was Kinsey Research Team's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, published in 1953, appropriated by feminists as a weapon to deconstruct patriarchy? Why did a Conference on Sexuality held at Barnard College in New York in 1982 trigger the most fierce "sex debate" in the history of feminism?
From fashion to romance, popular culture opens up a new battlefield for feminism. Why was fashion once an F-Word that feminists can't mention? How did romance go from brainwashing the "reading/poisoning" of the female public to a manifest study of feminist cultural studies? How did the so-called "male gaze" open up a series of debates in feminist film criticism after the seventies?
Shih is a candidate for a Ph.D. in English at the Graduate Center.
Published September 2018
The Commercial Press
Sex, Heels, and Virginia Woolf
A History of Feminist Polemics
By Shi Shunxiang (Ph.D. candidate in English)
Why do feminism's biggest critics always come from within? From sexual polemics, literary polemics to cultural polemics, re-summon forgotten historical controversies, and re-excavate buried historical conflicts. Sex, High Heels, and Woolf looks at how literary classics, social movements, and popular culture redefined the alternative history of feminism in the twentieth century.
Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, revisiting the development of feminist theory, and stringing together a history with polemics, this book examines why feminists fight and what they fought about.
Published September 2018
The Commercial Press

The Girl Revolution: A Century of Fashion and Culture
By Shi Shunxiang (Ph.D. candidate in English)
They are the forgotten persons of history who are not part of feminist discourse, using the body, lust, and femininity to embark on a revolutionary road different from orthodox feminism.
They are the best interpreters of art, culture and fashion, with liberation, escape, and conflict, staying close to the pulse of society and speaking for themselves in the century-old history of fashion.
When feminism surged and resisted traditional patriarchy, girls had already turned around and entered the public life where society and culture blend. This is a century-old history of girls starting a gender revolution, and it is also the first time in history that girls have become the real protagonists in promoting the gender revolution.
From modern women to the sexual revolution, from the sexual revolution to girl power, let's see how the evolution of girls over the past century has been closely combined with the three waves of feminism, setting off a fashion and cultural revolution in the 20th century.
Published June 2016
Book Republic

First Checkerboard Title
A checkerboard component is made up of one or more checkerboard items, each including an image or video and a colored box with, minimally, a title and description. The description field allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links. Text should be kept brief.
If multiple checkerboard items are added to the component, the layout will alternate from left to right.
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Second Checkerboard Title
This checkerboard item uses a video instead of an image, and includes the optional eyebrow heading and button link (limited to one).
Note that if you choose to use a video, you will still need to select an image for the template to display as a placeholder. This is important for accessibility.
Optional button linkOptional Eyebrow HEading
Contacts
The Contacts component allows you to select an unlimited number of people and/or departments to automatically display relevant content information. For people, it will pull the person's name, title(s), phone number(s), and email from the person's Drupal profile. For departments (including academic programs) it will pull the department name, phone number, and email from its directory entry. For each contact you can elect to hide the phone number and/or email address (but please display at least one of those!)
You can also include an introduction or description using the optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links.
Steve Everett
Differentiators
The Differentiators component is made up of a manually-selected set of differentiator cards, which are entered in Drupal as individual pieces of content. The component will display a maximum of four cards on load, with a carousel function to display any additional cards. The component also includes an optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links, as well as an optional button link.
Event Components
There are two Event components available:
- The Event Feature component displays the summary information for a single manually-selected event in a full-width feature box.
- All information is pulled directly from the event post itself.
- Only events which include a banner image can be selected for display in an Event Feature component.
- Once the event has passed, the component will no longer display on the page.
- The Event Listing component displays the three next upcoming events which match the selected parameters (topic, department/program, type, and/or audience).
- All information is pulled directly from the event posts themselves.
- The component also includes a link to the GC's event calendar, automatically filtered to match the parameters selected, to show the full list of matching upcoming events.
- If there are no upcoming events that match your selected parameters, the component will not display on the page.
You can see examples of these components below. (But only if there are active events to display! If you do not see the demo components, check back at a later date.)
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Event Listing
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Form
The Form component allows you to display a Drupal webform or embed a form from an outside source. It also includes an optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links, as well as an optional button link.
FYI Component
The FYI component displays the five most recently published FYIs matching your selected parameters (category, topic, and/or department/program). All content is pulled directly from the FYI posts. The component also includes a link to the GC's general FYI listing, automatically filtered to match the parameters selected, to show a full archive of matching FYIs.
You can see an example of this component below.
FYIs
All FYIsAnnouncement
Prof. Miki Makihara organized a symposium titled "Discourse and the Construction of Political Subjectivities: Perspectives on Lebanon, Chile, Rapa Nui, Morocco, Puerto Rico, and Mexico", February 3, 2023, at the Graduate Center.
Speakers:
Diane Riskedahl (Anthropology, Graduate Center)
Tania Avilés (Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile)
Mata-U'iroa Atan (Rapa Nui, Easter Island)
Becky Schulthies (Anthropology, Rutgers)
Carmín Quijano (LAILaC, Graduate Center)
Closing: Oswaldo Zavala (LAILaC, Graduate Center)
Moderated by Miki Makihara (Queens College & Graduate Center)
The event is co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, and the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, and in collaboration with the M.A. Program in Middle Eastern Studies. RSVP: https://bit.ly/3IQREbf
- Announcement
Nishtha Trivedi
Nishtha Trivedi will be presenting her poster titled, Autistic and Neurotypical speakers mark given-new information structure with systematic, perceptible prosodic focus, at Meeting on Language in Autism in Durham, NC, March 9-11,2023.
- Congratulations/Kudos
Announcement
Prof. Kyle Gorman will be teaching a class entitled "Defectivity" at the Linguistic Society of America's 2003 summer institute, to be held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this June and July.
See details here:
https://blogs.umass.edu/lingstitute2023/
https://blogs.umass.edu/lingstitute2023/courses/defectivity/
- Announcement
Congratulations to Professor Bill Haddican
Prof. Bill Haddican's article "Cross-speaker covariation across six vocalic changes in New York City English," is the recipient of the Roger W. Shuy Award for the best article published in American Speech during 2022. Bill will receive the award at the American Dialect Society's Annual luncheon on Saturday, January 7.
The article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—TOO-fronting, raising of PRICE and FACE and lowering of BAD, THOUGHT and DRESS—co-occur across speakers, and explores social correlates of these patterns of covariation in the Corpus of New York City English (Tortora et al in progress). The analysis suggests that patterns of covariation across speakers are conditioned by the local social embedding of the changes.
- Congratulations/Kudos
Gallery
The Gallery component displays a manually selected, unlimited number of images and/or videos from the Drupal media library. The gallery will show the first 2 rows of items, with a button to expand the full gallery if additional items are included. Clicking a media item in the gallery will open it at full size in a lightbox viewer. The component also includes an optional description field which supports basic text only (no formatting).
Listing
The Listing component is made up of one or more Listing Items, each of which will minimally contain a title and a block of descriptive copy, but can also include a list of links and and image or video. The Listing Items can be re-ordered using a drag-and-drop feature. This component is most useful when you need to display multiple sections of related content and links under a common heading/description.
Listing Title
This is the simplest version of a Listing Item, containing only a title and description. The description field allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links.
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Second Listing Item Title
Optional Subtitle
This Listing Item uses all available options, and demonstrates the list-style formatting for links.
This example includes an image, but a video can also be used. Note that if you choose to display a video, you will also need to select an image for the template to display as a placeholder. This is important to accessibility.

News Component
The News component displays the four most-recently published news stories that match your selected parameters (category, topic, and/or department/program). All content is pulled directly from the news posts. The component also includes a link to the GC's general News listing, automatically filtered to match the parameters selected, to show a full archive of matching News items.
You can see an example of this component below.
News
Feb 1, 2023
Celebrating Our Scholars During Black History Month
From a book on Black-owned bookstores to the first CUNY Kennedy Center honoree, Graduate Center scholars are writing and changing Black history.
- GC Stories
- Faculty News
- Student News
- Alumni News
Jan 31, 2023
Charles Tien on Congress and the Contested Speaker Election
The U.S. politics expert joins The Thought Project to discuss the 118th Congress and the bruising election of Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
- Podcast
Jan 31, 2023
Outlook Undeliverable Messages
Dear Graduate Center, Please be aware that GC IT is actively copying faculty and staff email data to CUNY's M365 email cloud in preparation for...
- Alerts
Jan 30, 2023
Alumna Char Adams Lands Deal to Write Book on Black-Owned Bookstores
"Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore" will be the first full-length book on the history of Black-owned bookstores.
- GC Stories
- Alumni News
Optional Eyebrow Heading
Profiles
The Profiles component uses a grid layout to automatically pull and display the name, title(s), and headshot for all people matching the parameters selected in the component (type, topic, program, and/or department). It also includes an optional description field, which allows for basic text formatting including bold, italics, and inline links.

Joshua Brumberg
Professor
- Psychology
Professor
- Biology
Professor
- Neuroscience
Professor
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Dean for the Sciences
- Provost's Office
Dean for the Sciences
- Academic Affairs

Steve Everett
Provost and Senior Vice President
- Provost's Office

Monica W. Varsanyi
Interim Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences
- Provost's Office
Professor
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor
- International Migration Studies
Testimonial
The Testimonial component creates a large, visual feature for a quote, statement or review. Minimally required are a heading, the quote itself, and the name of the quotes source/author. You can also optionally include a title and subtitle for the person, a clickthrough link, and an image. This example uses the minimum settings; see below for a more fully featured testimonial.
— The GC Web Team
Second Testimonial
This testimonial example uses all available features. Please note that the quote field supports basic text only (no formatting).
— Jane Smith
Web Developer
Communications and Marketing
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