I am a scholar of literature & space, focusing on the way digital techniques can help elucidate novels of the 20th and 21st centuries. This focus expresses itself in my scholarship and teaching in the Department of English  at New York University.

PATRICIA SMITH is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist; and Gotta Go, Gotta Flow, a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson.  Her other books include the poetry volumes Teahouse of the Almighty, Close to Death, Big Towns Big Talk, Life According to Motown; the children's book Janna and the Kingsand the history Africans in America, a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Baffler, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Tin House and in Best American Poetry and Best American Essays. She co-edited The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir. Her contribution to that anthology won the Robert L. Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the best debut story of the year and was featured in the anthology Best American Mystery Stories.

She is a Guggenheim fellow, a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. Patricia is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.

Phillip Caruso, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society of Camera Operators, photographed those iconic images of Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Robert DeNiro as a crazed ex-con and Kurt Russell as a fearless firefighter.

Caruso will give an illustrated talk Friday, December 1,at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall on the University at Albany’s Downtown Campus.

Hisham Matar’s memoir, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between, (2016) tells the story of his travels to the Libya of his family’s origin and the search for his missing father, Jaballa, a political activist who disappeared during the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

The Return was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, and The Guardian.

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You are invited to the following free event after Thanksgiving:

The University Art Museum presents noted poet, art critic, and curator John Yau, who will give a lecture entitled "Above and Below the Radar: Artists Working Today" on Tuesday, November 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the University Art Museum on the UAlbany Uptown Campus, 1400 Washington Ave.

Yau’s reviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, Bookforum, and the Los Angeles Times. He was the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Rail from 2006 to 2011. In January 2012, he started the online magazine Hyperallergic Weekend with Thomas Micchelli, Natalie Haddad and Albert Mobilio.

The documentary titled LOS SURES, shot on 16-millimeter film, captures the era’s rhythms and residents and serves as a time capsule of a gritty, pre-gentrification New York City.

In a freewheeling illustrated talk titled "Anchoring Flights of Fancy: Research & Imagination in the New York Novel The Gargoyle Hunters,"John Freeman Gill will discuss how his original research into the Woolworth Building provided the factual joists that supported his vivid imagination, to be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 16, at Page Hall in Albany.
Gill will then read from a nail-biting climactic chapter set in the 1970s atop the landmark skyscraper, in which 13-year-old Griffin Watts is sent by his obsessive father to sever an endangered gargoyle from the 55th floor with a power saw.