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St. John’s English PhD Happy Hour: Friday 1/5, 7:15 – 8:30 pm, Sheraton, Central Park East
Student Presentations
Moire Matheson s164: Th 1/4 7 pm Sheraton Columbus Circle
Panel “Irish Women Writing Politics”
Paper “The English Maria Edgeworth, the Irish Jane Austen”
Laura Lisabeth s268: F 1/5 10:15 am Sheraton Gramercy
Speaker in “Teaching the Fragments: English Education, Democracy, and Digital Media”
Anna Cairney s355: F 1/5 1:45 pm Sheraton Sugar Hill
Panel: “Catfished: Lies Online”
Paper: “Real People, Fake Narratives: Does Self-Publishing Online Promote or Obstruct Authenticity?”
Gowri Kumar s469: S 1/6 8:30 am Sheraton Gramercy
Panel: “Dislocated Identity in Recent South Asian and Diasporic Literature”
Paper: “No man’s land: The Production of Spaces of Refuge in Manto’s Toba Tek Singh“
Antonio Fontana s550: S 1/6 Noon Hilton Murray Hill
Panel: “Approaching the American South and the Global South through De Bois”
Paper: “The South as a Space of Emancipation: On the Relation between Du Bois and Gramsci”
Cristen Fitzpatrick s740: Su 1/7 8:30 am Sheraton Sutton Place
Panel: “The Year that Changed Everything: 1968 at Fifty”
Paper: “Feminist Zines, Fifty Years Later”
Faculty Presentations
David Farley (FYW)
s196: Th 1/4 7 pm Hilton Beekman
Chair: “‘Papers, Please’: Travel Documents and Travel Writing”
s776: Su 1/7 10:15 am Sheraton Union Square
Panel: “Instigating Insecurity: The Presidential Executive Order and Muslim-American Activism”
Paper: “From Muslim Ban to ICE Raids: NYC’s Municipal ID Program and Intersectional Local Activism in Trump’s America”
Raj Chetty s152: Th 1/4 5:15 pm Hilton New York
Speaker on “C.L.R. James and the Postcolonial”
Jennifer Travis s644: S 1/6 3:30 pm Hilton Sutton Corner
Speaker on “Feminist Pedagogy in Digital Spaces”
Steve Mentz
s254: Fri 1/5 10:15 am ; Sheraton, Riverside
Chair: “Tyranny”
s821: Su 1/7 Noon ; Hilton Beekman
Speaker on “Site Specifics”
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