Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Elizabeth Strout visits BMCC.
It was nearing the nightly 9 p.m. curfew in Baghdad when Josh Middleton saw the headlights approaching.
A lone truck came up the road where Middleton’s platoon stood waiting. Someone from the platoon waved a flashlight, instructing the driver to stop. The driver, mistaking the gesture for another vehicle’s headlights, continued.
The soldiers...
June 20, 2013 Chaweon (CHA-wun) Koo, one of the five student winners of this year’s English Department Faculty Writing Awards, admits that when she was growing up, her genre of choice, science fiction, “wasn’t cool like it is now.”She was reading "both Sweet Valley High, and science fiction for kids," she says, and was interested in...
Thursday, OCTOBER 27, 2022 Welcome About BMCC Program Speakers BMCC Scholars Honorees Advertising Sponsors BMCC Foundation Board Welcome MESSAGE FROM THE BMCC PRESIDENT Welcome to the 2022 BMCC Foundation Gala. We are holding this event in person for the first time since 2019, and our community has earned this celebration! Throughout the pandemic, BMCC faculty have...
The BMCC community looks back, on the 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11.
Once community is created in a virtual setting, students are better able to connect with course content.
Raising domestic violence awareness at BMCC. More photos. October 28, 2014 This year’s Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Activities featured workshops, a poster-making session, speaker event and Walk With Me Silent Procession, as well as three panel discussions and a symposium. Sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, the events featured speakers from BMCC and...
November 10, 2014 “We can, and do change lives,” said Barbara Marcus, President and Publisher of Random House Children’s Books, as she welcomed guests to the Fall Fanfare ceremony held in a conference room of the Random House offices in midtown Manhattan. The ceremony recognized 30 Education Fund Fellows receiving $10,000 each, thanks to...
Instructor Jaime Weida teaches BMCC’s first Queer Literature course, English 346. April 1, 2013 A “queer lit” class starts out like any other. Instructor Jaime Weida writes homework on the board—finish reading The Color Purple, by Alice Walker—along with a reminder of when the students’ midterm essay is due, and dates for spring break....
May 21, 2015 Two BMCC English professors, Cheryl J. Fish and Jami Carlacio, will be spending part of their summer as scholars in residence through the Faculty Resource Network (FRN) at New York University. Professor Fish has been awarded the prestigious Summer 2015 Calvin B. Grimes Scholar-in-Residence to further develop her research project, “A...