PTNYC Fundraiser: Music, Poetry, Comedy, and more!
Check out D.A. student Dan Dissinger as he reads poetry at a fundraising event! There will be music, poetry, comedy, and more at the Comedy […]
Month: February 2013
SJU Alumnus Michael Jacobs wins Faculty award
Congratulations to SJU English alumnus Michael Jacobs! Mike won the Faculty of the Year award at Berkeley College. From the White Plains Daily Voice article: “Michael […]
CFP: 21st Century Englishes
Graduate Student Conference: “21st Century Englishes” on Oct. 19, 2013 Location: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Contact email: bgsucon@gmail.com Proposal Submission Deadline: June […]
David Farley Bookmarks event cancelled for 3/4
Due to a family emergency, Dr. David Farley has had to cancel his upcoming Bookmarks talk on Monday 3/4. We’ll try to reschedule and post a date […]
Kingship Cycle at St John’s
Starting March 8 and lasting through April 21, St. John’s is very lucky to have the Adirondack Shakespeare coming coming to both the Manhattan and […]
Papers in Progress: St John’s Graduate Conference
On March 5th and March 7th from 5:00pm-7:30pm participants in the St. John’s Graduate Conference will be giving a sneak preview of their conference papers […]
Summer NEH Seminar in Early Modern Manuscripts and Printed Books
Here’s a link to a great NEH summer seminar based in NYC on early modern manuscripts and printed books. Application deadline is March 4. Participating Institutions: The […]
Job candidate on campus tomorrow
A quick reminder that Mecca Sullivan, a candidate for the post-colonial faculty position, will give her job talk in the IWS seminar room at 2 […]
CFP: The Consortium for Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking
The Consortium for Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking Annual Conference Saturday, October 26, 2013 Sponsored by Berkeley College and St. John’s University This conference invites […]
Michael Berube, MLA President, on Graduate Education
A great piece in the CHE by Berube on the crisis in graduate education today. This is very much worth reading for all present and future […]
Internal Candidates for MA fellowships
Just a reminder to all our students that the deadline for MA and DA fellowships is coming up on March 1, at the end of […]
Call for Papers: Transnational Cultural Studies
The Graduate English Organization, along with the Department of English invites graduate students to submit abstracts for the 2013 Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders Graduate Conference […]
Bookmarks: David Farley
St. John’s University Department of English presents Bookmarks: Conversations about Books by our Faculty featuring Dr. David Farley Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad Monday March […]
Call for Papers: New Critics IV
Announcing New Critics IV: Suny Oneonta’s Undergraduate Literature and Composition Conference! If you are an undergrad, you can send your 150-word abstract to Bianca.Tredennick@oneonta.edu. You […]
Fiction contest for college undergrads: SUNY Stony Brook
Eligibility: Only undergraduates enrolled full time in United States and Canadian universities and colleges for the academic year 2012-13 are eligible. This Prize has traditionally […]
This Rough Magic: Teaching E-journal for Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Grad students interested in premodern texts might want to submit to this electronic journal. (via shakesper.net): This Rough Magic (www.thisroughmagic.org) is a journal dedicated to the […]
Job Candidates Mon and Tues this Week
Please come to meet our job candidates this week. Today Raj Chetty’s talkis at 2 pm in the IWS seminar room, and an informal meeting […]
W.E.B. Du Bois, Slavery, and the Atlantic Imaginary
Join professors Eric Lott (American Studies, University of Virginia), Jennifer L. Morgan (History, NYU), and Jeffrey Ferguson (American Studies and Black Studies, Amherst) as they […]
Poetry reading in Brooklyn: Dan Dissinger
Support D. A. student Dan Dissinger as he reads some of his poetry in Brooklyn! Dan was recently published as the Center Stage Poet in […]
Scholarship in the Digital Age
Here’s a great, insightful post on the definition and boundaries of scholarship in the Digital Age that both Anne Geller and I have already tweeted this snowy […]
Internship at Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is seeking a motivated intern to join the HuffPost Teen team as a 6 month intern. This full-time role is an excellent […]
No lecture on Th 2/7
The job candidate lecture and meeting with students for this coming Th, 2/7, has been cancelled. We will still have candidates coming to campus on […]