The Department of English at New York University

The Department of English at New York University promotes the rigorous study of English-language literature from the variety of periods and places in which it has been produced.  Understanding “literature” to encompass such matters as textual production and circulation, societal reading practices, generic differentiation, and aesthetic attitudes–as well as discrete bodies of work by recognized authors–the Department strives to elucidate literary significance in all its manifestations.  Departmental faculty accordingly work and train students in textual analysis, archival research, theoretical critique, and cultural historiography, among other scholarly methods.  In addition to awarding B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in literature, the Department offers both an M.A. and an M.F.A. degree in creative writing, through its affiliated program in that field.

Learn More about NYU by Visiting the English Department’s Website:

http://english.fas.nyu.edu/page/home

Also, please visit the University’s Website:

http://www.nyu.edu

Transportation via the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)

Visit the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Website and use their plan and ride tool (powered by Google) to plan your subway or bus trip.  See: http://www.mta.info/

Here is a link to the most current subway map: http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm

Accommodations Near the New York University Campus

New York University is located in Greenwich Village, just north of SoHo, in an area full of restaurants, galleries, and stores.

The cheapest rooms in the city are available at Youth Hostels. A listing of Youth Hostels in the New York City area can be found at the following link. Please remember that not all Hostels will accept reservations from non-Hostel members, or may quote substantially higher rates to non-members.

Youth Hostels in New York

Our own friends have had pleasant experiences with Jazz on the Park, just a block away from Central Park, a 20-min subway ride from NYU.

There are limited lodging options in the immediate NYU area, so you may want to consider staying further uptown, or even outside of the city.

The most convenient bus lines to NYU are the M1, M2, M3, M5, M6, M8, M10, and the M21. Nearby subway lines include the A, B, C, D, E, F, or V to West Fourth St., the 1 or 9 to Christopher St., the N or R to Eighth St., or the 6 to Astor Pl.

No matter where you stay, we hope you enjoy your visit to New York University and take advantage of the wonderful resources the City has to offer.

NYU Hotel Accommodations

Club Quarters Downtown

52 William Street, New York, NY 10036
Reservations: (212) 575-0006

Club Quarters Midtown

40 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10005 Reservations: (212) 575-0006

Club Quarters Downtown, a 280-room, private, first-class business hotel, is located in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. By special arrangement with NYU, it offers moderately priced, quality accommodations for University-affiliated guests. Features include a customized NYU floor and lounge decorated to highlight the University’s presence in New York. Rates are well below those for comparable accommodations in Manhattan. On weekends, visitors are welcome to use Club Quarters Midtown. Near Fifth Avenue, it is close to shopping, Broadway theatres, and Rockefeller Center.

Other Hotels

Best Western Seaport

33 Peck Slip at Front St.
NY, NY 10038-1706
(212) 766-6600

The Carlton on Madison Ave

22 East 29th Street
New York, New York 10016
(212) 532-4100

Clarion Collection The Solita Soho Hotel

159 Grand Street (between Lafayette & Centre St )
(212) 925-3600

Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea

160 West 25th Street (between 6th & 7th Ave)
(212) 627-1888

Gramercy Park

2 Lexington Ave. at 21st St.
(212) 475-4320

Holiday Inn Downtown

138 Lafayette Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 966-8898

The Iroquois

49 West 44th Street
New York, New York 10036
(212) 840-3080

The Marcel

230 East 24th Street
New York, New York 10010
(212) 696-3800

Roger Williams

131 Madison Avenue (at 31st St)
New York, New York 10016
(212) 448-7000

The Roosevelt Hotel

Madison Avenue at 45th Street
New York, New York 10017
(212) 888 TEDDYNY

Soho Grand Hotel

310 West Broadway
New York, New York 10013
1-800-965-3000

The Thirty Thirty Hotel

30 East 30th Street
New York, New York 10016
(212) 689-1900

Thompson Lower East Side

190 Allen Street
New York, NY 10002
(212) 460-5300
Reservations: 1-877-460-8888

W New York Union Square

201 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10003
(212) 253-9119

Washington Square Hotel

103 Waverly Pl. at Washington Square West
1-800-222-0418

Hotel Wolcott

4 West 31st Street
New York, New York 10019
(212) 268-2900

Literature and the Mass-Produced Image

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Date: Friday, April 2, 2010

Deadline for Abstracts: February 1, 2010

New York University’s English Department will host a graduate student conference exploring the fate of literature in the age of the reproducible image. The nineteenth-century emergence of photography, a medium which Walter Benjamin referred to as “the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction,” coupled with the subsequent development of the motion picture, irrevocably shook not only the art world, but also the literary. This conference aims to uncover the affinities, negotiations, and interrelations between literary texts and visual media like photography, cinema, and the more recent medium of digital imaging and video. Investigating these issues from the perspectives of both literary and visual culture, this one-day event aims to bring together new work being produced by graduate students studying literature, cinema studies, visual culture, the history of media, and social historiography.

We will be focusing on a number of related questions including (but not limited to): How has the development of visual media affected literary aesthetics? In what sense has the vocabulary of film and photography been appropriated from and by literary culture? How do motion and pacing – elements inherent to cinema – reveal themselves in creating and staging action, plot, and character development in literary narrative?

Other possible topics include:

• Photographic representation in literary texts
• Literature as motion: imagery and the mind’s eye, storytelling and motion
• Cinema, literature, fragmentation and non-linear chronology
• Descriptions of photographs within literary works
• The ‘urban’ and its centrality to cross-media works
• Modernist critique/appropriation of visual culture
• Art, the avant-garde, and experimental motion/stop-motion
• The function of written text in a visual medium
• Depictions of movies and movie-going in literary narrative
• Film vs. Literature: ‘high art’ in the era of mass culture

Please send abstracts (400 words) to nyugeo.conference@gmail.com by FEBRUARY 1, 2010. Abstracts should include your name, contact information, paper title, and a short bio with your institution & department affiliation and year in graduate school. Please specify any audio-visual requirements. Panel proposals are also welcome for panels comprised of 3-4 participants; in your proposals, please include panel title and brief description (limit 500 words) as well as a list of papers with corresponding abstracts and speaker information.

Conference organizers: Yair Solan, Kathryn Bullerdick and Blevin Shelnutt.

This conference is sponsored by the New York University Department of English, with financial support provided by the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science.