Distributaries

We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Natalie Willens’ (LaGuardia Community College) public scholarship and its impact below. In Fall 2023, supported by the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium and LaGuardia & Wagner Archives, I began forming a collective of LaGuardia students and faculty to build a map and archive of underrepresented/underfunded...

The following blog entry is a recollection of an archival research project by Lost & Found Fellow and CUNY Graduate Center student Rebecca Teich. There is one story I could tell of the discovery of letters between New Narrative writer Kevin Killian and polymath science fiction, non-fiction, and cross-genre writer Samuel Delany, sometime between 1987...

This series of letters emerged from Ju Ly Ban’s work as a Fellow for Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative from the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, grounded in archival engagement with the work and life of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Attuned to the fragments of her presence in...

Collage featuring Diana Higuera-Cortés by Madeleine Barnes.

We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Seth Fein’s (LaGuardia Community College) public scholarship and its impact below. All Is Not Lost ∞ Noguchi near Milton in Queens is a distributary.  This documentary essay’s themes overflowed its trunk tributary; my film, contemplating contemporaneous outlier artists, Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) and Isamu...

We are honored to present CUNY Adjunct Incubator work. Please read about Jerald Isseks’ (Guttman Community College) public scholarship and its impact below. I teach first-year undergraduate students in American Studies at Guttman Community College. Over the past few years, my students have designed and conducted participatory action research (PAR) projects as the culminating experience...