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Ph.D. in hand, longtime theater director starts a second act
A 2022 graduate turns from the stage to the lecture hall.
Graduate Center Students Win Prestigious Dissertation Fellowships
Ph.D. candidates secure highly competitive grants for their dissertation projects.
English Ph.D. Candidate Wins New Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
Destry Maria Sibley discusses her dissertation on motherhood memoirs and shares advice on seeking funding.
Life Writing: Literary Biographies from the English Program
Students, alumni, and faculty discuss what they learned in the process of chronicling an author’s life.
The Leon Levy Center Announces 2023-2024 Biography Fellows
Five writers, including a Graduate Center alumnus, receive the distinguished fellowships.
Two Faculty Members and an Alumna Win 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships
Professors Wayne Koestenbaum and Tanya Pollard and Alumna Deborah Lutz receive the prestigious fellowship.
Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Fellowships Awarded to 65 CUNY Faculty and Doctoral Students
The fellowship is designed to enhance Black, race and ethnic studies scholarship and teaching at CUNY and is part of a $3 million, Mellon Foundation-funded initiative.
Reasons to Love Poetry This Poetry Month
Graduate Center poets and authors name their favorite poems and say what draws them to poetry.
End of the English Major? Hardly!
Graduate Center scholars say "The New Yorker" story is a clarion call, but the humanities remain relevant.
How a Graduate Center Mentorship Became Friendship, and Inspired a Book
A professor and an alumna discuss their mentoring relationship and the inspiration behind their co-edited book.