Humanities Review: Call for Papers (Deadline Dec 16)
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 […]
Draft Line-up for Whitman on Walls!
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 […]
RSVP for Whitman on Walls! (via 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, […]
Week 6 – English 1100c with Professor Cynthia Schmidt
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 […]
Alum profile: Dr. Danielle Bacibianco
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 […]
Bookmarks Post-Game: Gabe Brownstein’s The Secret Mind of Bertha Pappenheim
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 […]
Alum Profile: Dr. Meghan Gilbert
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 […]
Week 5: Intro to CRES with Dr. Raj Chetty (English 3680 / CRES 1000)
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 […]
FInal Call for Poets – Whitman on Walls!
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 […]
Week 4: Ursula K. Le Guin at the Seminar Table
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 […]
Thoughts about the English Department from the West Wing
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 […]
Two Publishing Career Treks: 9/17 at Penguin Random House, 10/17 at Simon and Schuster
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 […]
Week 3 – Nine PhD students passed their Comps!
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 […]
Alum Profile: Dr. Mike Jacobs (DA ’12), Provost of Monroe Community College
We at the SJU English Blog are so excited in these early days of F24 to be profiling one of our distinguished alums who has […]
First-Year Seminars in English! (F24, Week 2)
As we swing into the fall semester, I’m going to profile briefly two of our most important courses, the First-Year Seminar in English. We offer […]
Bookmarks – with Gabe Brownstein (10/1, 3:30 pm)
Please come to our first Bookmarks event of Fall 2024! These events are opportunities for people in our community to gather to celebrate our achievements […]
Call for St. John’s Poets – for Whitman on Walls! (Sat Oct 26th)
Calling all St. John’s Poets! It’s time to start planning for our big fall poetry event, coming up on Sat Oct 26th. The event, Whitman […]
F24, Week 1 – Welcome to the English Community at St. John’s!
Welcome newcomers, and welcome back to everyone else who’s arriving in Queens this week to begin the Fall 2024 semester as part of the community […]
Humanities Review!
Here’s the Spring 2024 issue of the Humanities Review: The St. John’s Humanities Review
2024 English Graduate Conference Schedule
9:30AM – Check In & Refreshments (DAC 4th Floor) 10:00 AM – Welcome Address (DAC – 416B) Steve Mentz, Ph.D. (he/him) 2024 English Graduate Conference […]
2024 English Graduate Conference – 4/20 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
The English Graduate Student Conference presents Reconstructing the World from Ruin. The conference is being held on April 20, 2024, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM. The event will occur […]
New poetry chapbook by PhD student Seán Griffin!
Congratulations to Seán Griffin, PhD student and Doctoral Fellow in English, on the publication of their poetry chapbook by Bottlecap Press! There are many patterns around us. […]