CFP: IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC
Another call for proposals this week! You may recognize our very own Dr. Harry Denny mentioned here. Don’t hesitate to get these abstracts submitted. The […]
Month: September 2011
10/4: What is Writing Studies? Event
Attention English-ers! This upcoming event promises to be a very interesting conversation about the future of the Writing Studies field. Whether you are taking or […]
Meet Dr. Sicari!
Today we are kicking off a brand new series of Meet the Faculty posts! These are a little get-to-know-you of your English professors. Not only do […]
The Messenger as Journalist in Antony and Cleopatra
Probably because I am interested in journalism, I started to think of the messengers in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, whose job it is to enter […]
CFP: Stony Brook Grad Conference
Stony Brook University announces their 24th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: Instrument, Image, Ekphrasis: Intersecting Genres of Knowledge. For more information, registration, and updates, visit: www.stonybrook.edu/english/grad/conference/. […]
Othello in New Jersey — Oct 22 at FDU
For all STJ Jersey-ites, and others, here’s the notice of an annual event at Farleigh Dickinson University in my former hometown of Madison, NJ. I’ll […]
Why I am in Graduate School
As a first semester doctoral student I am terrified at what the future holds. I am in this weird purgatory-esque setting where I am between […]
Poetry Symposium: Tangled Spaces on 9/29
Join Professor Lee Ann Brown for this poetry symposium on Thursday at 4:00 p.m. The Symposium is held at the Martin F. Segal Theater at […]
The Write Career: Career Event Th 9/29
THINKING OF A CAREER IN WRITING? Attend THE WRITE CAREER to gain exposure to career fields that value students with strong writing skills. Panelists will […]
Save the date — September 29
More details forthcoming, but put September 29 in your calendar! There will be a Careers in Writing panel for undergraduate students in D’Angelo Center 416 […]
CFP: NEMLA 2012 – due 9/30!
NeMLA 2012: “Of Queen’s Gardens”: Victorian Ecofeminism contact: Margaret S. Kennedy contact email: Margaret.Kennedy@stonybrook.edu Call for Papers: “Of Queen’s Gardens”: Victorian Ecofeminism This panel invites ecofeminist readings […]
CFP: NEWCA 2012
Here is the full call for proposals for the 2012 NEWCA (that’s Northeast Writing Centers Association) Conference, which will be hosted by St. John’s University […]
The Infamous Call for Papers
In my whole single year of experience as a graduate student, there’s one thing I’m glad that I found out early on in the process: […]
On Seeing the Big Picture: Graduate Student Musings
As professional academics, present and future, we trade in ideas. And, sometimes, it’s enough just to be surrounded by those ideas and not necessarily knee […]
Links to Chronicle articles on jobs and technology
A few interesting reads from The Chronicle. Although many of us are quite far away from interviews, I think it is important to place them […]
9/11 Writers Roundtable
Don’t forget next Wednesday’s roundtable commemorating the events of 9/11. Here are some snippets from the flyer. For more information, please contact Dr. Fanuzzi. Join […]
Blogging and Bayard
BLOG – the four letter word that actually gets you into trouble if you don’t use it! Blogging today is not only for those who […]
Prof Hacker on Graduate Student Websites
An interesting article from the “Professor Hacker” column in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about the pros and cons of graduate students building personal websites. […]
Join us in commemorating 9/11
There never seems to be sufficient words to describe the events of September 11, 2001. Even, or perhaps especially, as we prepare to mark its […]
Introducing the Introduction
This is the second year that I’ve been teaching our Introduction to the Profession graduate seminar, and this year the students and I will be […]
Welcome back!
We hope you all had a wonderful summer. Perhaps relaxing. Perhaps productive. Perhaps crazy. We are glad to welcome you back for the fall semester. […]