Month: November 2010

An opportunity to gain professional experience by working for our human-interest oriented group of newspapers. The Long Island Jewish World/Manhattan Jewish Sentinel/Rockland Jewish Tribune group […]

Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media“The Power of Humanities”April 1-2, 2011Department of English, Northern Illinois UniversityKeynote Speaker: Emily Auerbach, professor of English at the […]

St. John’s is hosting this year’s New York American Studies Association’s annual conference this coming Saturday, December 4.  We’re hoping to find an interested grad […]

Dear Colleagues,English Studies at LargeAn Undergraduate Conference at Illinois State University Sponsored by the English Department and Sigma Tau DeltaG/great W/writers do all sorts of […]

Regina Corallo, DA student in the department and an adjunct instructor, was kind enough to share her experience at the Annual Medieval Guild Conference earlier […]

Via Dr. Lubey, here’s a link to a sample syllabus for Dr. Chris Denny’s Theology 3270: Theology and Literature, a course that satisfies the 3000-level […]

I read Christopher Isherwood’s review in the Times after taking my class to see the stage-play of “Throne of Blood” at BAM last Thursday.   What […]

Cahiers n°5 – The Rhetoric of Violence in the Early Modern Era We invite submissions for the 2011 issue of Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir-Shakespearean Afterlives. […]

Don’t forget the informational meeting for M.A. Portfolio requirements is scheduled for this Tuesday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the English Department Lounge.  Although […]

The deadline for this CFP (at the bottom) is Jan 15, 2011. Science and Magic: Ways of Knowing in the Renaissance Princeton University, Princeton, New […]

Registration for Spring 2011 Graduate courses begins tomorrow, November 10th! If you have not already done so, please see Gina or Lana in the English […]

The description of this spring Distance Learning senior seminar seems to have been missing from our earlier post.  Please contact Dr. Melissa Mowry (mowrym@stjohns.edu) for […]

Come join the St. John’s English Department tomorrow afternoon, 11/9, at 3 pm in the Institute for Writing Studies, to celebrate and discuss the latest […]

I’m taking my Elizabethan Shakespeare students (E. 3140) to the Brooklyn Academy of Music next week to see a play with a strange relationship to […]

Via English major Brittni Kanhai, here’s a link to a reading at NYU featuring Junot Diaz, whose work has featured in a few recent classes.  […]

The English Department has a limited number of M.A. graduate assistantships available each year.  All full-time M.A. students currently in the graduate program and incoming […]

There will be an informational meeting for all English M.A. students regarding the M.A. portfolio requirements on Tuesday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the […]

Here’s a link to a newly-funded doctoral program sponsored by the European Union.  At least 5 of what my friend Bernhard Klein at the University […]

Via Anne Geller, here’s a link to a student writing contest sponsored by The Atlantic magazine — http://assets.theatlantic.com/static/front/docs/studentWritingContest/2010.pdf

Happy November!! I know we are all very busy with projects and research and possibly even having a small dose of panic right about now, […]