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Congratulations to UB English PhD candidate Bianca Messinger, whose first full-length book of poems, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦, comes out tomorrow with Nightboat Books! nightboat.org/book/pleasurei…
More congratulations are in order! The Bibliographical Society of America has named UB English PhD Candidate Sharmeen Mehri to its New Scholars Program cohort. bibsocamer.org/news/2025-new… (1 of 2)
She will be presenting her work, "Dastur Dr. Dhalla Collection: A Case Study on Zoroastrian Community Libraries," on January 16, 2025. Read more and register by visiting bibsocamer.org/events/calend… (2 of 2)
Congratulations to PhD candidate Sharmeen Mehri, who has been awarded an MLA Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship for her project “Roshni Rustomji-Kerns: Diasporic Entanglements and Parsi Women Writers." news.mla.hcommons.org/2024/1… (1 of 2)
Congrats to Tanya Shilina-Conte, whose book, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴: 𝘎𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘻𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦, has just been published by Oxford University Press! Read more about it here: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Dr. Shilina-Conte is also the recipient of a UB Gender Institute research grant. Read more here: buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/20…
Congrats to Andy Lindquist, the winner of the Graduate School’s 2024 Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award for his dissertation “(Re)Imagining Community: Settler Anxiety, Ethnographic Desire, and Haudenosaunee Nationalisms in the Assimilation Era!”
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Congratulations to #UBuffalo Department of English Assistant Professor Tanya Shilina-Conte, who received a $5000 Faculty Grant for Global and International Research from the Office of International Education for her new book project, "Anonymous Cinema in the Global Age!"
Congrats to #UBuffalo Prof. Kellie Sharp, who has been awarded a Civic Engagement Research Fund grant to collaborate with the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project to bring local queer history to various sites around Buffalo in June 2025! Read more: bflolgbtqhistoryproject.org
Scholars@Hallwalls: Elizabeth Mazzolini
Friday, Oct. 25, 4 p.m.
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202)
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Juxtapositions LECTURE SERIES FALL 2024
Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi: "The Visual Order of Black Bodies: On Black Photographic Archives from Camera Obscura to Digital Camera"
Thursday, October 24
3:30 pm - 306 Clemens Hall
Poetics Plus **TOMORROW** Tuesday, October 22, 7:30 pm at Fitz Books.
Please join the #UBuffalo Poetics Program and Department of Art for a reading with Eleni Stecopoulos.
Friday, Oct. 25 | 4 p.m.
Scholars@Hallwalls: Elizabeth Mazzolini (@bethmazzo), #UBuffalo Department of English
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202)
"The Power We Squander: Paying Attention to Three Mile Island"
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Congratulations to #UBuffalo English PhD Candidate Jocelyn E. Marshall, who has been awarded the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association x University of Illinois Press First Book Prize for “Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism!”
Juxtapositions Fall 2024 Lecture Series
Stephen Best (UC Berkeley)
"Baldwin's Inarticulacy"
Wednesday, October 16 4:00 pm
306 Clemens Hall
Free and open to the public.
Exhibit X Fiction Presents
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Novelist Ed Park
Tuesday October 8
Conversation: 5:30 (Hallwalls Gallery)
Reading: 7:00pm (Hallwalls Cinema)
Transportation: Free Stampede shuttle, CFA circle 4:45pm (Returns 8pm)
Refreshments
Free and open to the public.
#UBuffalo Department of English Visiting Assistant Professor Laura Marris will be delivering a talk this Friday, Sept 27, in 120 Clemens at 2:00 pm. The talk is titled “The Age of Loneliness: Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Community Science.”
Banned Books Week Movie Event: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥’𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Capen 310
Open to all members of the UB community.
Refreshments will be served. (1/3)
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In recognition of Banned Books Week, the University Libraries will host a film screening of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘥’𝘴 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦, Harold Pinter's 1990 adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel about a servant in a futuristic, male-dominated society. (2/3)