St. John’s at 4C25!
The 4Cs or CCCC conference – Conference on College Composition and Communication – is always a big event in the spring for members of the […]
Month: April 2025
D’Angelo Lecture: Erica Hunt, “lines set afloat toward hope”
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 […]
April Poetry Reading: Stephanie Burt (April 7th)
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 […]
Othello on Broadway – cross-posted by Steve Mentz
[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 […]
“lines set afloat toward hope”: Erica Hunt’s D’Angelo Chair Lecture: Monday 4/14 1:50 pm (Common Hour)
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 […]
Lecture by Dr. Todd Craig (SJU DA ’13)
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 […]
WoW! at City College (4/3/25)
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 […]
Steve Mentz on a Podcast hosted by Dan Dissinger (PhD ’17)!
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 […]
Congrats to Dr. Endrit Agolli!
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 […]