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For anyone (else) who can’t get enough Whitman on Walls!, the amazing event the SJU English department hosted last Saturday, I have a few things […]

When I peeled myself out of the car after a long post-WoW! drive home Saturday night, I got an email from Jose Perez, a poet-performer […]

On Tuesday Nov 12 I’m taking the grad stduents in my English 110: Intro to the Profession class to see “We Are Your Robots,” a […]

Great to see Whitman on Walls! featured in today’s Broadway World!  

  Here’s a flyer about a new podcast from Joey Weisler, PhD candidate from the English department. It’s about his podcast  Classroom Narratives: Healing in […]

Coming soon – this Saturday in DAC 206 at 4 pm! Get a free ticket here or just come along!

It’s almost time to start registering for S25 classes! Here are the dates – For undergraduate students – Seniors can register starting Oct 30. Juniors […]

Coming to us all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, the hydrofeminist scholar and surfer Nike Romano will be in the Writing Center for […]

We are so excited to share our lineup of poets and poems for the Whitman on Walls! event on campus Sat 10/26. We plan to […]

The CFP for this year’s issue of the Humanities Review is here! Here’s a pdf of the flyer, and a longer description. Please email Seán Griffin and […]

We’re in the countdown phrase – only 18 days until 10/26! – and we’re working on some flyers and other publicity. We have an Eventbrite […]

We have an Eventbrite page! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whitman-on-walls-tickets-1039197988157 If you can join us on Sat 10/26 for Whitman on Walls on the St. John’s University campus, DAC 206, […]

We’re coming into the middle of the semester, with advising season just around the corner and the glories of Whitman on Walls! only a few […]

Another of our distinguished alums, Dr. Danielle Bacibianco, has published an article in a recent symposium in the venerable journal College English. Her essay is […]

Yesterday afternoon in the Writing Center, the English Department marked the turn into October by gathering to celebrate the publication of Gabe Brownstein’s book, The […]

It’s time to celebrate another one of our successful recent graduates! Dr. Meghan Gilbert, who’s now an Associate Professor of English at Guttman Community College […]

This week’s course profile is a collaboration between English and the newly-established academic programs in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES). We in English are […]

As regular readers of the English blog know, the department’s big event this fall will be Whitman on Walls! – a multimedia performance that will […]

I suspect I’m not the only middle-aged English professor who first became a passionate reader through devouring book upon book of science fiction. While pre-teen […]

So last Friday I was talking to the First Lady of the United States about St. John’s English… OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. But I […]

Interested in a career in publishing? Career Services has two events this fall that aim to introduce SJU students to two of the largest global […]

It’s been a busy few opening weeks in the English department. There’s no better report on that busyness than this list of nine of our […]