Rukshana Jalil


Film Screening: Dirt (USA, 2003) Friday, May 15 • 6 PM Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY Film screening followed by a Q&A Session About the Film “Mexican actress Julieta Ortiz as an undocumented Salvadoran maid lights up Nancy Savoca’s Dirt, an audience-grabber as tightly condensed and emotionally resonant as […]

May 15 | Film Screening: Dirt (USA, 2003)



  A two-week summer program at the CUNY Graduate Center (July 13–24, 2026). This interdisciplinary program offers a thoughtful blend of academic inquiry and industry engagement, providing insight into the trends, technologies, cultural shifts, and sustainability challenges shaping the field today. Through faculty-led sessions, site visits, hands-on projects, and conversations […]

July 13-24| Fashion Futures



The 2026 institute will focus on a set of issues debated by contemporary narratologists, all of which have important theoretical and practical consequences: authorial intention; social context and narrative form; unreliable narration, fictionality, AI narratives, climate change, and narrative medicine.  We’ll look at how different theoretical conceptions of narrative—rhetorical, intersectional, […]

Due April 15 | Applications for the 2026 Project Narrative ...


Sprockets/Selvage/Shores: Grad Student Conference Center for Research & Study Join us on April 3rd + 4th for an exciting series of academic panels, screenings, and workshops across a variety of contemporary approaches and topics on the theme of Sprockets/Selvage/Shores. The conference will include presentations from current students and recent alumni from institutions […]

April 3-4 | Tisch CRS Grad Student Conference 2026 + ...