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Just a quick note that Michael Mallick and the good people at the English Department have begun posting admit lists for Spring 2009 seminars. Complete list should be up by Tuesday.

The deadline to apply to most history seminars was about an hour ago, but expect announcements about admit lists anytime up until next semester.

If you know any important dates regarding other departments' seminars and their corresponding waiting game, email us (bwog@columbia.edu) or just use the comment thread.

Good luck!


The school year has ended and next fall many professors will be packing their bags and leaving behind their Metrocards for the greener pastures of other universities -- Yale, in particular, seems to be popular among Columbia's professorial population. (Another way professors are just like us!) Bwog's rounded up some arrivals and departures of your beloved faculty, but let us know who we missed and we'll update the post.

David Kastan, the chair of the English Department and Edward Said Professor of English and Comparative Literature is heading to New Haven.

Noam Elcott will be joining the Art History Department as an assistant professor. Bonus fun fact: Elcott was The Blue and White's first moder editor (in 1998), following its 100 year hiatus.

Also heading to Yale is the Music Department's Brian Kane, who was at CU for a post-doctorate teaching fellowship.

Owen Gutfreund, responding to the University's decision not to grant him tenure, announced in January that he was uncertain whether he would remain at Columbia (as an associate professor of urban studies and director of BC/CU Urban Studies Programs) after this spring. A quick glance at the course directory reveals that Gutfreund will not be teaching any Fall 2008 classes.

Lit Hum lecturer Jill Muller did not receive a contract renewal

Say goodbye to Annalies Wouters of Classics

Another loss for the Music Department as Ruth Rosenberg heads to the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Professor of Political Science Thomas Pogge is headed to Yale's Philosophy Department (if you're keeping score, that's three for Yale).

Philosophy professor and YouTube user Christia Mercer is taking a sabbatical, as is Bwog's inamorato, the Abelard to our Heloise, the Antony to our Cleopatra, English and Comp. Lit professor Bruce Robbins.

Next school year marks the beginning of Barnard's hunger-striking Professor of Political Science Dennis Dalton's retirement.

Philosophy professors/married persons Patricia and Philip Kitcher return from sabbatical, the later of whom will be teaching Michael Seidel's Joyce course in the fall.


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