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News & Events
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Alum-Inaries - A Homecoming Celebration for the Fordham Community Honoring
Distinguished Alumnae & Alumni |
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12:30 - 2:00 pm - Duane Library
Buffet Lunch for Faculty, Graduate Students, Alumni of Graduate Program & Guests |
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2:30 to 4:00 pm - Flom Auditorium, Walsh Family Library
Guest talks folllowed by Discussion. General public invited. |
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4:00 pm - Reception, Tognino Hall, Duane Library |
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POETS OUT LOUD (POL) - Inaugural Reading - Fall 2009 Series |
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Principal readers are Dennis Nurkse (poet laureate of Brooklyn) and Rachel Hadas. The reading focuses on poems about New York.
POL has instituted a new program of inviting our own Fordham Masters with Writing Concentration students to read a couple of poems at the beginning of the evening. This first reading will feature Rachel Kaminsky. |
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7 PM - Lincoln Center, McNally Auditorium, 140 West 62nd Street |
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Appointment of The John D. Boyd, S.J., Chair in Poetic Imagination
Heather Dubrow
Installation & Lecture |
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'And I feel now the future in the instant':
Futurity in Shakespeare, Donne, Heaney, and Dealy Hall |
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5:30 PM - Rose Hill, Duane Library, Tognino Hall
Reception immediately follows lecture. R.S.V.P. by 13 October: jmlogan@fordham.edu. |
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Unusual Suspects, Unlikely Heroes:
Pitt's Reign of Terror and the Lost Generation of the 1790s |
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Kenneth R. Johnston |
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5:00 PM - Lincoln Center, McMahon Hall Lounge 109 • 155 W. 60th Street |
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Sponsored by The New York City Romanticism Group |
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| NOVEMBER |
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GRADUATE PROGRAM ADMISSIONS OPEN HOUSE |
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For propspective English graduate program applicants. For more information, email marstern@fordham.edu. |
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 Professor Lenny Cassuto's Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
The Macavity Award is named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in four categories. More...
Professor Cassuto's book is nominated for
The Macavity Award under the category Best Nonfiction/Critical. |
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 Professor Suzanne Yeager's Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative is published. By the late medieval period, centuries of crusading had influenced English and northern European portrayals of the Holy Land and its inhabitants. Through literary images of Jerusalem and the crusades surrounding it, English medieval writers explored the contemporary conflicts of the Hundred Years War and Papal Schism. By creating texts that embellished the historical relationship between the Holy City and England, English authors endowed their nation with a reputation of power and importance, set in competition with that of their French neighbors. In Jerusalem in Medieval Narrative, Suzanne Yeager identifies the growth of medieval propaganda aimed at rousing interest in crusading, and analyzes how fourteenth-century writers refashioned their sources to create a substantive (if fictive) English role in the fight for Jerusalem. More... |
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