The FAQs section addresses questions prospective students might have concerning application for our graduate programs.

 

Q:  Can I apply for graduate programs online?

Yes. Please go to online application.

Q:  Can I apply for admission for the Spring Semester?

No, the department only considers Fall applicants.

Q:  Does the program accept part-time Ph.D. students?

No.

Q:  What is the deadline for applying to the program?

January 15th.

Q:  Should I send my official transcripts department?

Yes.

Q:  When will my file be reviewed by the Graduate Studies Committee?

The Graduate Studies Committee will start reviewing files in February.

Q:  What is the correct mailing address?

Stony Brook State University of New York

Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory

Humanities Building - Room 2048 

Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355

 

Spring 2013

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Department

Brooke Belisle, a 2013 New Faculty Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies will join the department next year. "Click here for more info"

Vivien Hartog Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to Alexis Chartschlaa and Laura James, winners of the 2013 Vivien Hartog Travel Award.
 
New MA/PhD in Women's and Gender Studies
The Department is pleased to announce that the new MA/PhD program in Women's and Gender Studies has received official certification.
Faculty
 
Victoria Hesford's new book "Feeling Women's Liberation" was published with Duke University Press in June.
E.K. Tan published a peer-reviewed journal article, 華語語系研究：海外華人與離散華人研究之反思 [Sinophone Studies: Rethinking Overseas Chinese Studies and Chinese Diaspora Studies] in 中國現代文學 [Journal of Modern Chinese Literature (Taiwan)] 22 (Winter 2012): 41-58; and an essay, “Transcending Multiracialism: Kuo Pao Kun’s Multilingual Play Mama Looking for Her Cat and the Concept of Open Culture” in Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shih, Brian Bernards and Chien-hsin Tsai (Columbia University Press 2013).
Robert Harvey gave a lecture entitled "Partage informe: Foucault's Transgression" at a philosophy & literature symposium at Brown University on April 5.
Jackie Reich will be speaking at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC on Thursday, April 25 and at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY on May 4.  
Ray Guins is a co-organizer of the History of Games conference in Montreal, June 21-23:  http://www.history-of-games.com/
E.K. Tan's new book, "Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World" was published with Cambria Press in January.
 
Students 

 

Sarah Paruolo, gave a paper at ACLA 2013 in Toronto titled "Shadows of Trujillo:Oscar Wao and the Haunting of a People."

Marcus Brock, was admitted into the 2013 Cornell School of Criticism and Theory, was invited to moderate the VIP screening and reception for the filmPortrait of Jason, and will give a talk at the Stony Brook LGBTA Spring Retreat.

Celina Hung,  has accepted the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Literature at NYU-Shanghai.  She will be stationed in Shanghai with affiliation with the Comparative Literature Department in the NYU Manhattan campus.
Laine Nooney, has received a Distinguished Travel Award from the Grad School and GSO, a Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award, and was selected for the Provost's Lecture Series.
Joana Moura has been awarded a doctoral grant (approximately $16,000 per annum) by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science.
Kudos Newsletter
January 2013
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