Showing posts with label Romanticist Reading Group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romanticist Reading Group. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Reminder: Oct. 21 "From Paper to Publication" with William Germano & Cliff Siskin

The Romanticist Reading Group of NYU's English Department presents "From Paper to Publication" this Friday,October 21 from 3- 5 pm at 19 University Place, Room 222.

Bill Germano (former VP at Routledge/ Editor at Columbia University Press) and our very own Cliff Siskin (Co-Editor, Palgrave Studies) will discuss the many tips and insights to get your paper to the next, published level. Germano's books will be sold at a 40 % discount courtesy of UChicago Press (See below).

All fields in the Humanities are welcome! Information is pertinent for all graduate students ranging from year one of the M.A. up to the final year of the PhD! Wine and other refreshments will be served.

Details:
Friday, October 21
3 - 5 pm
Room 222 (19 University Place).

William Germano:
Dean and Professor of English at The Cooper Union, William Germano is the author of Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books and From Dissertation to Book. He served as editor at Routledge and has worked with numerous prominent scholar including Peter Galison, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Raymond Williams, and Stephen Greenblatt.

Cliff Siskin:
In addition to publishing numerous books and articles, Professor Siskin is co-editor, with Anne Mellor, of the Palgrave-Macmillan monograph series in "Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print." His subject is the interrelations of literary, social, and technological change, with a particular emphasis on print culture: both its historical formation and its current remediation in the face of the electronic and the digital.

Both of William Germano's Books will be sold at a 40% discount courtesy of University of Chicago Press.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Romanticist Reading Group - 9/29 Event

The NYU English Department's Romanticist Reading Group cordially invites you to its first meeting of the semester on Thursday, September 29th from 6:30 to 8 pm:


Romanticism and the Visionary Poetry

Location: The Silver Building, Room 507

Time: 6:30 - 8 pm

Wine and Snacks will be served


We will examine selections from William Blake and S.T. Coleridge and begin the discussion with a talk about the Visual, the Visions and the Visionary in Romantic Poetry. If interested, please email Omar F. Miranda at ofm203@nyu.edu for the readings.


We are also seeking new members to assume leadership positions in the group. We are interested in a cross-disciplinary and multi-lingual approach to Romanticism--a legacy living on and on! Any interested student from any field is welcome: Not only limited to 18th and 19th Century Studies. Please email ofm203@nyu.edu


To Sunny Pleasure Domes with Caves of Ice!