"PUTTING YOURSELF OUT THERE: SELF-NARRATION IN JOB MATERIALS" WITH HILLARY MILLER
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 12:00pm
190 Rockefeller Hall
Hillary Miller teaches twentieth and twenty-first century drama in the English Department at Queens College (CUNY) and serves as Assistant Director of the English MA program. Her first book, Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York (Northwestern University Press, 2016), won the John W. Frick Book Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History from the American Society for Theatre Research. Her second book, Playwrights on Television: Conversations with Dramatists (Routledge, 2020), addresses the labor of the contemporary playwright through interviews with eighteen dramatic writers about their cross-platform writing careers. She has published on numerous topics related to theatre post-World War II in the United States, including: activist theatre traditions; queer precarity; performance and urban space; racial, ethnic, and geographic inequalities in the arts; and the politics of producing.
Her essays and reviews have appeared in Lateral, PAJ, Performance Research, The Radical History Review, RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Theatre Journal, and Theatre Survey. She currently serves as Vice President of Awards for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). She received her Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from the Graduate Center (City University of New York), an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and a B.A. in Theatre and Women’s Studies from Dartmouth College. She has taught at Baruch College (CUNY), California State University-Northridge, and Stanford University.
The Right On, Write In!
TBA
190 Rockefeller Hall
Join your fellow FGSS/LGBT Grads for a little peace, love, and writing! On the second Wednesday of every month, you are invited for a WRITE IN! Inspired by consciousness raising groups of the 1970s, we are sitting in and sharing stories (and, of course, writing!). Come share what you’re working on or come by and enjoy some free coffee! Whatever gets you inspired! During the two-hour drop-in session, we will talk about writing stumbling blocks, give and receive feedback, and/or just focus on being around supportive people as we write!
Viewing and Discussion of "The Stitch" by Asiya Zahoor
Thursday, November 17, 4:30pm-6pm
190 Rockefeller Hall
The short film, "The Stitch", takes us into the life of a nine-year-old girl, who takes respite in drawing despite the fact that to fulfill her little aspirations like going to school, she has to navigate difficult geographical terrains and occasionally a curfew or a crossfire. By zooming into the microcosm of the girl’s life, this short film endeavors to portray the larger story of Kashmir and the negotiations the people in any contested territory have to make in order to deal with the fissures in their geographical and personal identities. As a conscious act of resistance against the infidelity of language, there are no dialogues in the film. The "Viewing and Discussion" of "The Stitch" will be coupled with Kashmiri poetry focusing on gender identity and border crossing.
Asiya Zahoor is a Sanford H. Taylor Post-doctoral Fellow at the Asian Studies Department Cornell. Asiya Zahoor studied Caribbean literature, Psycholinguistics and Kashmiri Literature at the Universities of Kashmir, Oxford University in the UK. and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Asiya's film, "The Stitch" has won the critics award for Best Short Film at the South Asian Film Festival. Asiya has written on migration, psycholinguistics, Caribbean and Kashmiri and Urdu literature. She has also written poetry and short fiction. Her latest book, Serpents Under My Veil, is a collection of poems.
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Navigating the Job Market with Former FGSS Grads!
Wednesday, November 30, 4:30pm-6pm
Online. RSVP for Zoom link.
Join former FGSS Grads in this virtual discussion of how they navigated (and survived!) the job market! During this casual online talk, panelists will discuss everything from crafting the perfect cover letter to preparing for your first, second (and maybe third!) interview! From how to search for alt-ac positions to what types of interview questions to prepare for to negotiating your salary...these panelists have done it all! We will get in depth with all your burning questions!
Our panelists:
Lynne Stahl (Humanities Librarian, West Virginia University)
Natasha Bissonauth (Assistant Professor, York University)
Rosalie Purvis (Assistant Professor, University of Maine)
Honey Crawford (Assistant Professor, New York University)
Cailtin Kane (Assistant Professor, Kent State University)
Nicolette Bragg (Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College)
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Please contact FGSS Graduate Assistant Jayme Kilburn with any questions.
