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Hi, everyone.   On November 12 at 6:30, at the Leo Baeck Institute, 15 West 16th Street in Manhattan, I will be speaking about my […]

Hi everyone, We’re excited to invite you to the University Writing Center’s very first Book Club meeting! Join us as we discuss She’s Always Hungry, […]

Hello Everyone! Starting this week, there will be weekly posts that introduce students currently in the Graduate program. Thank you to those who have responded […]

Dear St. John’s English Community,   As we gear up for advising season, and also for Halloween, we are going to celebrate English Week in […]

Hello and greetings from Northwestern University! On behalf of the Litowitz Graduate Creative Writing Program at Northwestern, I’d like to ask you to pass this […]

Professor Raj Chetty is teaching a semester-long course that will focus on creative and critical writings related to culture, race, and baseball/sports. These topics focus […]

For anyone who’s working on how to make your own or your students’ writing feel more meaningful, here’s a great resource. Our own Professor Anne […]

Please join us on Monday 9/29 during Common Hour as we welcome Edward Balleisen, a Senior Vice-Provost and Professor of History at Duke University, for […]

Congrats to our latest new PhD, Dr. Candice Belluscio, who defended her dissertation on Monday August 11, in front of an impressed committee and enthusiastic […]

Congrats to Dr. Kailyn Giaccone, pictured here after her successful dissertation defense. Dr. Giaccone’s dissertation is entitled, “As I Type: An Autoethnography of Italian (Sicilian) […]

On Thursday August 7, in the seminar room in the basement of St. John Hall, Dr. Sonia Adams completed the major requirement of her PhD […]

As summer eases toward its end and the SJU English community’s thoughts turn toward the Queens campus, the mult-year labors of our hard-working doctoral students […]

Congrats to Dr. Grant Crawford, who passed is Doctoral Dissertation Defense yesterday after a wide-ranging, thoughtful, and perceptive conversation. He is pictured here with his […]

The 4Cs or CCCC conference – Conference on College Composition and Communication – is always a big event in the spring for members of the […]

I had been looking forward to Monday April 14 ever since we finalized the appointment of Erica Hunt as the English Department’s honorary D’Angelo Chair […]

Better late than not at all, I wanted to post a few pictures and thoughts about the fantastic reading given by poet and Harvard professor […]

[cross-posted from The Bookfish: www.stevementz.com] Almost all productions of Othello end up as a wrestling match between the two lead actors, and the eye-droppingly expensive Broadway production’s dueling Hollywood […]

It’s almost time! Come join us in Common Hour on Monday 4/14 for Erica Hunt’s eagerly awaited D’Angelo Chair Lecture, in the lecture hall in […]

We are excited to welcome back SJU alum (English DA 2013) Dr. Todd Craig, who will give the 3rd Annual Invited Lecture on Cultural Rhetoric […]

In an early event kicking off National Poetry Month several SJU poets traveled across the boroughs to historic City College in Harlem on Thursday April […]