Career Advice, Red Hyacinth Journal, Student News

Red Hyacinth Literary Journal: Grad-Student Editors Needed!

About Red Hyacinth:

Red Hyacinth Journal is an annually published, perfect-bound literary magazine that showcases the writing and art of Mercy University students and alum. The journal’s first issue was produced in 2018 through the generosity of the family of the late Professor Valerie Lewis, a former instructor in the English program, and named for her favorite flower. Over the past several years, Red Hyacinth has featured the diverse creative work of hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students from across many majors at MercyU. Student editors from the Departments of Literature & Language, and of Communication and the Arts, collaborate on the editorial decisions, design, and concept. The journal’s student editors receive hands-on experience in the editorial and production processes as they select the creative work (poetry, drama, nonfiction, fiction, and art) in a blind-review process, prepare the magazine for press, and communicate with the college community regarding its release. The journal’s website can be found at: https://redhyacinthjournal.wordpress.com/

As we plan for a 7th annual issue (2024), we are looking to assemble an all-volunteer staff of Editors. Many literary magazines are produced by not-for-profit entities such as colleges and art collectives and rely on a volunteer staff. While the positions are not paid, the Editors’ names appear in the Masthead of the journal and editorial service can be listed on one’s resume and referenced in job interviews. Serving as an editor provides graduate and undergraduate students with invaluable hands-on experience in editing, publishing, and arts administration, and allows students to make an important contribution to the Mercy community, one that will endure for years to come.

We are looking for reliable, dedicated volunteers to fill the following positions for the 2023-24 academic year. The positions will start in November 2023 and run until May 2024. All positions will operate remotely, and applicants must have access to a computer and reliable Internet and have the ability to meet at least once a week, on a weekday, Eastern Standard Time, to collaborate with the team. Some daytime availability (morning or afternoon) is required. Editors will need to submit their availability for meetings with their application. Editors cannot publish their own creative writing in the issue they are serving on.

If interested, please send your resume and a brief letter starting your interest and qualifications, the position you desire, as well as the your availability (days/times) Eastern Standard Time to the Faculty Advisor, Dr. Kristen Keckler, kkeckler1@mercy.edu no later than Oct 16, 2023.

Because the work is spread out over several months, the time commitment is manageable. Editors will be provided back issues of the journal so that they can review various versions of the finished product.

Managing Editor (Priority position)

The Managing Editor position functions as the top editorial position on the staff and manages the day-to-day operations of the journal for one cycle/issue, with the opportunity for renewal for another issue cycle, if the candidate so desires. The Managing Editor will collaborate with the Content and Design Editors to ensure that the team stays on task and that deadlines are met at key junctures in the production schedule. The position requires strong organizational skills and ability to create and maintain spreadsheets using Google.

Responsibilities include:

  • Manage the email and Google drive for the journal
  • Communicate with students/alum who submit to the journal
  • Create Google spreadsheets to track submissions and ensure a blind submission process
  • Schedule and co-lead (with the Faculty Advisor) editorial meetings
  • Communicate with the journal’s Faculty advisor about progress  
  • Coordinate and lead the proofreading process
  • Make minor changes to journal’s website

Content Editors

Content Editors will review submissions in various genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, etc.) and determine the artistic merit/potential of each piece and its suitability for the issue of the journal. There are a limited number of Content Editor positions.

Content Editors’ responsibilities include:

  • Read/review submissions and mark notes on the spreadsheet
  • Attend Zoom meetings to discuss the submissions and decide on which content is most suitable for the issue
  • Collaborate on the order and “arc” of the journal’s creative work, deciding on, for example, which pieces have connections that can be highlighted through juxtaposition
  • Assist with light editing/proofreading
  • Assist with outreach to potential contributors about the journal
Annual Director's Welcome, Useful Program Info & Tips

Student IDs and Student/Alumni Book Club

Something of an addendum here to the “welcome” post from last week.

STUDENT ID

Grad students, whether on campus or online, can and should secure student ID cards. A student ID can get you discounts at various stores, and can usually get you access to any college or university library in your area. Students at the Dobbs Ferry campus can stop in and get your ID card in Person at the Admissions office in Main Hall. Students at a distance can secure an ID card through the mail by following these instructions:

Using your @mercy.edu email account, send a photo of your face along with your full first name, last name, and ID number (your eight-digit CWID number) to pact@mercy.edu.

 Full photo guidelines are:

  • Submit a color photo of just your face taken in last 6 months
  • Have someone else take your photo – no selfies
  • Submit a high-resolution photo that is not blurry, grainy, or pixilated
  • Use a clear and unedited image of your face; do not use filters such as those commonly used on social media
  • Face the camera directly with full face in view
  • Have a neutral facial expression or a natural smile, with both eyes open
  • Use a white or off-white background

Explain in your email that you are a distance-learning graduate student in the MA English Lit program at Mercy U, and that you would like a student ID card.

STUDENT & ALUMNI BOOK CLUB (MEETS ONLINE)

Any grad students or alumni interested in joining the student-run book club, please do! The club meets online, so you can join no matter where you might be located in the world. Please contact the club’s faculty advisor, Dr. Dugan, at sdugan@mercy.edu, for information on how to join.

Annual Director's Welcome

Welcome to the 2023-24 Academic Year

On behalf of all of the Mercy University* MA in English Literature faculty: welcome, everyone in our graduate English community, to the 2023-24 academic year. I always find the start of the fall semester and the new academic year to be an exciting, fun, wonder-filled time. Each September we get to begin again our journeys together, get to begin again our explorations across the frontiers, get to once again travel through time and place through the power and artistry of writing, words, language, text, and thereby experience together something of the thrill and mystery and sublimity of all things; all while also developing particular areas of knowledge related to your specific courses of study. It is a special thing to be a part of a graduate community such as ours, to be able to begin again like this each September, together. I hope that each of you feels something of the excitement, the fun, the wonder of it all, here at the start of the fall semester and the new academic year. And I hope that each of you brings something of that feeling into your studies and your classroom discussions.

Below in this welcome post you’ll find some program info and news, along with information about support and resources available to all of our graduate students. Please read through all of this to get caught up on what’s happening and to get in view what resources are available to you.

*A footnote! Yes Mercy College is now Mercy University, as of August 22. To be a university a college needs only to have a certain amount of graduate programs, which Mercy has, so Mercy went through the process of legally switching its designation from college to university this past year.

ZOOM ORIENTATION, Q&A, AND OVERALL WELCOME TO THE SEMESTER: THURSDAY 9/7, 6PM EASTERN

Grad English students, new and continuing, interested in gathering on Zoom this Thursday 9/7 at 6pm eastern, please contact cloots@mercy.edu for the login info. All of the professors teaching your fall MA courses are scheduled to be there to introduce themselves and answer any questions, and others will be there as well to offer guidance for navigating the graduate program: e.g. Dr. Kristen Keckler, the Chair of the Department of Literature & Language; Dr. Laura Proszak who runs the English TA program; Lydia Yearwood, the current PACT mentor responsible for all grad English students; and the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Dr. Peter West, might be there for a few minutes to say hello. We already have about fifteen new and continuing grad students planning to attend. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend so don’t hesitate to ask for the login info if you’re curious.

GRAD STUDENT RESOURCES & SUPPORT

Each active graduate student has what’s called a PACT advisor, which is basically your staff advisor and the point-person for assisting you with issues that arise or general questions you might have. As mentioned above, the PACT advisor for every graduate English student is currently Lydia Yearwood (lyearwood@mercy.edu). Also know that as the Program Director I am the faculty advisor to every graduate English student, so you can always contact me at cloots@mercy.edu. I am here to help, always.

Student Support Services is the general office/portal where you can find info about many of the things that students normally need info about. Note that practically all of Mercy University’s support services have some online variation, and so are available for our distance learning students.

The College’s Office of Accessibility is the place to contact if you need to discuss or register any accommodations.

We also have an office of Counseling Services for those in need.

The Center for Academic Excellence and Innovation (CAEI) provides tutoring (including online tutoring) and other such assistance for those who want some help with their writing and researching. Occasionally a professor might recommend that you seek additional help with your writing, and the CAEI is the place you can get it, whether on campus or online.

Mercy has extensive online library resources. JSTOR Language & Literature, MLA International Bibliography, and Academic Search Premier are the main databases in the field of literary research, though there are many other databases available online through the library. Additionally, Mercy College has digitized versions of many scholarly books. To search the ebook selection use the advanced search option for the library catalog and under “format” select “EBook.” Then search away and check-out/download any useful books you find. For general research help and an overview of basic research methods, you might find useful this online guide that librarian Miranda Montez created specifically for the MA English program. And don’t hesitate to make use of interlibrary loan to secure any materials (such as academic journal articles, etc.) that you need but which Mercy might not have on hand. Librarians can secure materials using interlibrary loan and send scanned PDFs to students at a distance, within fair use and copyright allowance.

On this post here you’ll find important information about the incomplete “I” grade which some of you might occasionally receive. It’s critically important that students recognize that there is a time-limit past which incompletes cannot be fixed, after which all credit and tuition for the incomplete course is lost.

For those approaching their last semester, you must pay attention to your required comprehensive exam, to the instructions for how to enroll in the final 599 course, and to the application form you must complete in order to actually graduate. Also note that the format for the 599 thesis paper involves some in-house style requirements, which are explained here.

PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES AND ENGL 599 MASTER’S THESIS ASSESSMENT RUBRIC

The program’s “student learning outcomes” are the big-picture things we hope you are developing throughout your time the program, and all of your courses in one way or another are geared around developing one, some, or all of those outcomes. We have a rubric keyed to those outcomes that we use when reviewing your final 599 thesis papers. You can see that rubric by clicking here. Even though we don’t apply the rubric systematically to papers written for courses prior to the 599 tutorial, it’s a good idea to look at it since more or less the things listed on the rubric are the things we’re considering when reviewing all of your papers for just about any course in the program. The rubric and the outcomes, and our 599 assessment practices, as well as the sharing of this information with students, are all requirements of our university’s accreditation.

THE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS ANNUAL “THEME”

Each year faculty from across the entire School of Liberal Arts (SLA) vote on a “theme” for the year. The theme becomes the focus for various SLA events and activities. The SLA theme for 2023-24 is “perception.” The SLA Dean’s Office has provided the following description:

Perception is the process by which humans apprehend their surroundings and make sense of the world that they inhabit. It is a physical phenomenon that engages all five senses. But it is so much more than the sum total of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch. As a form of consciousness, perception also carries intellectual and spiritual connotations. Nor is perception a neutral process. It can (and does) vary considerably between different people, across cultures, and over the course of an individual’s life.

You might informally keep the SLA theme of “perception” in mind when designing things like research-topics for your course papers. You might even create something based on the theme to present at the annual Graduate English Student Symposium in spring 2024. It’s not too early to start thinking about attending and presenting at the spring symposium.

ONWARD WE GO

Okay, that’s it for the welcome post! Thank you, everyone, for all of your work and effort. As always, if anyone has any questions about anything, please let me know at cloots@mercy.edu. Once again, welcome, everyone, to the 2023-24 academic year here in the Mercy College MA in English Lit program. Onward we go, together.

Useful Program Info & Tips

Open Invite for the faculty and student gathering on Thursday 9/7, 6pm eastern

Earlier on the blog I announced that there will be an online Q&A and orientation for recently-admitted students on Thursday, 9/7, on Zoom, at 6pm eastern. We’re extending the invitation for this event to any and all students in the graduate program, no matter how far you are along in your studies, and no matter if you feel that you need info or answers about anything in particular. It will likely prove useful and interesting to meet your fall professors in person; to hear any Q&A about the upcoming courses; to hear some general advice and guidance about program-level support and resources; to meet some of the other students in the program; etc. So, anyone who is interested, please contact cloots@mercy.edu to receive the meeting info and links. We hope to see a big turnout! Thank you, all.

Useful Program Info & Tips

Blackboard Sections Now Visible But Are Still Works-in-Progress

Blackboard sections for your graduate courses were revealed today 8/23. Please note, though, that these sections are still works-in-progress and most of your professors will be tinkering with them prior to the first day of class on Wednesday 9/6. Although the overall Blackboard sections have been revealed, much of the particulars in each section might still be hidden from student view. This is purposeful. Again, these are all works-in-progress as professors prepare for the fall semester. All necessary parts will be visible and ready come the first day of the semester, 9/6.

Useful Program Info & Tips

Graduate Student Orientation: Thursday 9/7 at 6pm Eastern, on Zoom

We’re planning to hold a faculty-led orientation for recently-admitted graduate English students (and other continuing students who feel that they could benefit from such an orientation) on Zoom on Thursday 9/7 at 6pm eastern. Attendance by our incoming students is strongly recommended, though we understand that not everyone will be able to make that day or time. Some of the faculty teaching this fall, including the Program Director of MA in English Lit, as well as the Chair of the Department of Literature & Language, will be present. So you’ll get to meet some of your fall-semester professors in person (virtually speaking), will be able to ask questions about the program or specific fall courses, and will hear advice and info from faculty and others. We’ll be reaching out to incoming students soon via email with information for how to attend. Continuing students who are interested in attending should contact cloots@mercy.edu.

Course Information

Book Order Info for Fall 2023

Below is some info regarding book orders for fall 2023 courses. This will be updated throughout August as professors finalize their courses. Note that in many cases professors will supplement these materials with links, PDFs, and other materials provided in Blackboard during the semester. So what you’re seeing here might not spell all of what you’ll be studying in any particular class. The college’s online bookstore is here. Books do not need to be purchased from the college store. The MA program recommends supporting your local bookseller, if one still exists; or using Powells.com for new books, or Alibris.com for used books. Books from the library are perfectly fine as well, though part of your graduate studies should involve marking up your books with notes and thoughts and building a personal library.

ENGL 500 – Theory & Practice of Lit Criticism (Dr. David Kilpatrick)

  • Leitch, Vincent B., et al, eds.  The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  3rd ed. Norton, 2018. ISBN: 9780393602951.

ENGL 507 – Narrative Strategies in the Novel (Dr. David Fritz)

  • Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller. ISBN 0099430894.
  • Diaz, Herman. Trust. ISBN 9780593420317.
  • Diaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. ISBN 1594483299.
  • Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night. ISBN 9781400032716.
  • Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. One Hundred Years of Solitude. ISBN 006112009X.
  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved. ISBN 1784876437.
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. ISBN 9798799065454.
  • Wolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. ISBN 0156628708.

ENGL 515 – Latin American Literature (Dr. Celia Reissig-Vasile)

Only one book purchase will be required, the Campobello book listed below. Other works will be assigned, such as Pablo Neruda’s Canto General and the film Strawberry and Chocolate by Tomas Guiterrez Alea, but links or copies of those readings and media will be provided by the professor of the course during the semester.

  • Campobello, Nellie. Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands. Translators Doris Meyer and Irene Matthews. University of Texas Press, 1988. ISBN: ‎ 9780274695508.

ENGL 540 – Literature by Women (Dr. Miriam Gogol)

More readings may be listed or shared in Blackboard, but as of now the following books are required:

  • Oates,  Joyce Carol. Beasts. Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0786711035.
  • Fern, Fanny. Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time. Penguin Classics, ISBN 0140189521.
  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Vintage International, ISBN 9781400033416.

ENGL 545 – Literature of the Left Bank, Paris (Dr. Christopher Loots)

Much will be provided in Blackboard in the form of PDFs (e.g. stories by Edith Wharton, selections from Joyce’s Ulysses, poetry by H.D., fiction by Zelda Fitzgerald, essays and poems by Richard Wright, etc.). But students should secure a copy of the follow required readings (any edition will do, it does not have to be the specific edition assigned here):

  • Baldwin, James. Giovanni’s Room. Vintage, 2013. ISBN: 9780345806567
  • Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank Paris: 1900-1940. University of Texas Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780292790407. (This is out of print but there are dozens of used copies for sale on Alibris.com for cheap.)
  • Breton, Andre. Nadja. Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802150264
  • Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast – Restored Edition. Scribner, 2010. ISBN: 9781439182710. (If you have the original edition, that works fine too, and that’s actually the one I usually work from, though the two editions are significantly different.)
  • Loy, Mina. The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. ISBN: 9780374525071
  • Stein, Gertrude. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724643. (We’ll be studying The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas.)

Recommended additional materials for those who want to go even deeper into the lit and culture of this era, or who want to own copies of works from which I’ll be providing PDF exerpts:

  • Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Beacon, 2012. ISBN: 9780807006238. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s relevant to our units on Baldwin and Wright.)
  • Cunard, Nancy. The Poems of Nancy Cunard. Bodleian Library, 2005. ISBN: 9781842331071. (I will provide PDFs of what poetry in this we’ll be studying, but you might want to own the book.)
  • H.D. Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall; Tribute to the Angels; The Flowering of the Rod. New Directions, 1988. ISBN: 9780811213998. (I will provide PDFs of what poetry in this we’ll be studying, but you might want to own the book.)
  • Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Scribner, 2014. ISBN: 9781476764528. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s highly relevant to our unit on Hemingway.)
  • Fitzgerald, F Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribner, 1995. ISBN 9780684801544. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s relevant to our unit on Zelda and will loom large in the unit lecture.)
  • Fitzgerald, Zelda. The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald. University of Alabama Press, 1997. (I will be providing a PDF of the Zelda work we’re studying, but if you’re interested in her you should own this.)
  • Wright, Richard. Native Son. Perennial Classics, 2005. ISBN: 9780060837563. (We won’t be studying this directly but it’s relevant to our unit on Wright.)

ENGL 560 – African & Caribbean Literature (Dr. Donald Morales)

Partial book info is below; the professor is still building the reading list but so far this is for certain:

  • Adichie, Chimamanda. Purple Hibiscus. Algonquin Books, reprint edition, 2012. ISBN 9781616202415.
  • Coetzee. J.M. Disgrace. Viking, 1999. ISBN ‎ 978-0670887316. [South Africa]
  • Danticat, Edwidge. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series). Vintage, 2011. Appears to be out of print but new or used copies are widely available online, and also it is available in some digital formats, e.g.. Apple Books, Kindle.
  • Danticat, Edwidge. Dew Breaker. Vintage, 2005. ISBN  978-1400034291. [Haiti]
  • Mafouz, Naguib. Midaq Alley. Anchor, Reprint edition, 1992. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0385264761. [Egypt]
Annual Grad Student Symposium, Student News

Year-End Events and Honors: Symposium, Student Awards, and Commencement

We’ve reached the end of another academic year, which means it’s symposium season, awards season, and commencement season!

For our annual Graduate Student Symposium this past April, a good number of students, faculty, friends, family, and others in the graduate English community gathered on zoom to hear scholarly presentations from Abigail Collopy, Rayne Dolton, and Adrianne Gunter. Interpretations and insights were expressed; ideas were discussed; and much camaraderie and collegiality was had. Presenters earned a valuable line-item to list in the scholarship section of their curriculum vitae. The graduate faculty encourage all of our students to share some of your writing and ideas at next year’s symposium, which will likely be in late April 2024. Ask any of your professors or the Program Director about doing so, if you have any questions or need some guidance.

Three students were recognized recently for program year-end honors. The first of these honors is the Graduate English Christie Bowl, named for the late Joannes Christie who established and long chaired Mercy College’s English Program. The award, determined by the collective graduate faculty, recognizes one graduating student for their consistent academic excellence and classroom performance throughout their time in the graduate program, their other contributions to the program’s scholarly learning community, and their relevant accomplishments beyond the program’s coursework.

  • The winner of the 2023 Graduate English Christie Bowl is Tim Brosnan 

Next is the Howard Canaan Thesis Award for Innovation. This award honors the late Dr. Canaan, a long-time and highly-esteemed professor of English at Mercy College who (among many other things) taught Shakespeare and Science Fiction, and advocated that the latter could be as meaningful an area of study, could be as “literary” and as significant, as the former. This award recognizes a thesis that does one or some of the following: approaches literary analysis in a unique, unexpected, or unusual way; reconsiders and otherwise treats with dignity genre fiction; or involves interdisciplinary studies.

  • The winner of the 2023 Howard Canaan Thesis Award for Innovation is Casi Kapadia for her study “Fashion Statements: Fashion in Literature as a Social Mechanism in the Formation of Identity”

Finally, we have the Thesis of the Year Award. Selecting one study for this award, as much as for any of the other awards, is always extraordinarily difficult, as thesis students across the program regularly create excellent studies that are each worthy in their own right. The paper receiving this distinction stood out in all respects.

  • The winner of the 2023 Thesis of the Year Award is Selana Scott for her study “Ulysses’ Bloom; The Embodiment of the Mechanisms and Benefits of an Internal Locus Of Control Mindset”

It is always a strange thing to announce such distinctions as when doing so one can’t help but think of the marvelous students and studies that are not the ones named. Again, it is extraordinarily difficult for faculty judges to locate any single person to honor for any of these awards out of the many exceptional students graduating each year from our program and the college overall. So as we recognize these honorees let us please also recognize all members of the graduating MA class of 2022-23 for their hard work and dedication that has gotten them to this moment of completing their MA degree in English Literature.

One last program-relevant thing to mention here is that for Mercy College’s School of Liberal Arts commencement ceremony, held last week on the western athletic field of the Dobbs Ferry campus (the 100-yard event tent is pictured below), the college selected one of our own to deliver the graduate-student commencement address: Tim Brosnan. Tim gave a wonderful speech in which he expressed many of things that he cherished most about his time in the graduate program, as well as his appreciation for many of the individual faculty with whom he studied during his time in the program. It was a heartening and laudable finish to the year.

Cheers to everyone in the MA English Literature program, to our alumni, and to all of your family and friends. Congratulations to our graduating class of 2022-23. Onward we go!

Student News, Useful Program Info & Tips

Grad Student Book Club (open to students and alumni)

There’s been some talk about students in the MA program forming up a book club, so to have a more casual, extra-curricular, and student-run venue at which to discuss books and socialize with other graduate students outside of the classroom and the program structure. This is a great idea, one worth pursuing and registering as a student club with the College. In order for this to get off of the ground, we need two things:

First we need to create a list of everyone interested in joining the book club (note that expressing interest doesn’t bespeak an obligation to attend, it’s just necessary for the college to verify how many students might join and attend the club if it launched).

Second we need at least one person to step forward here at the start and indicate that they would be willing to be the club president, or a co-president, from go. In the context of this book club, the club president would mostly be responsible for organizing the online discussion sessions (e.g. polling the club members on when would be the best time to meet, creating and disseminating the zoom links, hosting the zoom session, and in-between meetings taking point on correspondences from other grad students interested in joining the club.).

If multiple people are interested in being book-club president, that’s great: in that case different people can take turns organizing the discussion sessions and such. I sponsor an undergrad student club at Dobbs Ferry that has three co-presidents, and they enjoy taking turns at it. Note that the book-club president(s) wouldn’t be deciding the book that the club reads: that would need to be agreed upon by the club, as a group (or by using whatever method of deciding that the club decides is best).

So, if you’re interested in joining the grad-student book club, please send an email to cloots@mercy.edu with your name and CWID number. And if you’re willing to be listed as a club (co)president here at the start, please indicate that as well. Again we need at least one person to step forward for that, otherwise the club won’t launch, since college student clubs need to be student-run and student-managed. Thank you.

(Edit in: Also, let me add, that alumni are welcome to be a part of the book club too, so if any alumni reading this are interested, let me know.)

Course Information

ENGL 515 Latin American Lit is moving to asynchronous (no weekly zoom requirement)

Due to lack of enrollment in the zoom-enhanced fall ENGL 515 Latin American Literature course, we’re changing the course to the standard asynchronous format. This means there will no longer be the Thursday night zoom requirement attached to the course. The change in modality will appear in Connect by the end of this week. Please contact cloots@mercy.edu with any questions.

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