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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 […]

Some of us remember Dan Dissinger, who graduated from St. John’s with his PhD in English in 2017. Dan teaches now at the University of […]

Congratulations to Dr. Endrit Agolli on his successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, titled “Poetics of Religiosity: T.S. Eliot and Religious Sense.” Dr. Agolli is […]

Peter P. and Margaret A. D’Angelo Chair 2025 Lecture Lines set afloat towards hope Erica Hunt, M.F.A., a poet, essayist, and author, works at the […]

We have a full set of Poetry events at SJU in April! The big event will be Erica Hunt’s D’Angelo Lecture on April 14th, and […]

Welcome back from spring break! It’s almost time for registration season! We are still finalizing all of our F25 course offerings, and as soon as […]

There’s a great event around the corner at Queens College on Monday, March 10, in which Edwidge Danticat will be speaking. See the attached flyer […]

The Age of AI means new opportunities for English Majors Like many writers and people who are devoted to humanistic values, I am somewhat skeptical […]

As we settle in for the chilly start of the S25 semester, we at SJU English have lots to look forward to. Watch this space […]

Welcome back to campus on a chilly morning in January! It’s gorgeous and quiet, with single digit temperatures and Sunday’s snowfall still mostly untouched. The […]

We’re excited to shout out one more December doctoral defense before the year ends! Dr. Joey Weisler’s dissertation, “From Scars Into Stars: Transforming The Pain […]

We’re excited to finish up our F24 semester with an interview from our alum Dr. Leslie J. Fernandez, who did their BA in English with […]

With apologies for a slight delay in posting, we want to celebrate Dr. Nouf Arige’s defense from last month. Her dissertation is called, ““Disturbing The […]

Marisa Berman Hollywood started the PhD at St John’s University ten years ago— two full-time higher-education jobs, three children, and one ambitious dissertation later, she […]