news
Student Enrollment to Hit All-Time High
As the economic crisis continues to deepen, many New Yorkers are choosing to return to school, and are looking to do so as cheaply as possible. CUNY has enjoyed a sharp 12 percent increase in applications over the past year, which will likely lead to CUNY’s highest enrollment ever next semester.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009)
Robert Reid-Pharr The tremendous impact that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, has had on the intellectual lives of an entire generation of scholars cannot be overstated. As a writer, teacher, mentor, and friend her sophisticated, precise engagements with questions of sexuality, desire, affect, and emotion have revolutionized literary and cultural studies, gender studies, critical theory, and feminism. Her many books, including Between Men (1985); Epistemology of the Closet (1991); Tendencies (1992); and Touching, Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003) are at once foundational works in queer studies and queer theory while also being rare examples of creativity, sensitivity, theoretical sophistication, and intellectual rigor.
features
Foul Play at Bard?
John Boy
As contingent workers in the CUNY system, many members of the Graduate Center community have become inured to the constant threat of losing their teaching positions at short notice. Following Governor Patterson’s budget cuts last summer, many long-serving adjuncts found themselves out of a job as department chairs balanced budgets on their backs. So it may not be surprising to hear that Bard College, a private liberal-arts school in Dutchess County, New York, recently terminated the teaching appointment of one of its untenured faculty members.
Midlife Crisis for a Movement Icon
John Otrompke
The year was 1997 when Molly Klopot first entered the building at 339 Lafayette in Manhattan, and like many people, she was initially struck by the amount of activity that went on in there.
opinion
From the Editor's Desk
Writer's Block
columns
Adjuncting
Stifling the Economy of Ideas
Renee McGarry
Political Analysis
Letter from Dakar
Michael Busch
News from the DSC
Reservations, Elections, and Google Groups
The Back Page
Many GC Professors Almost Public Intellectuals
Matt Lau
arts
Book Review
Reality is Very Haunting
JASON Schneiderman
Book Review
'No War But Class War'
Abe Walker
Art Review
Generation ‘Ehh’
clay matlin
Theater Review
Pull the String! Pull the String!
Frank Episale
Music Review
The Sign of Three
mark schiebe
Film Review
Two Contemporary Hells
Tim Krause
Film Review
The State of French Cinema
nicole wallenbrock
