Articles by Steve Mentz

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Come celebrate the Spring ’24 issue of Sequoya at a Publishing Party! In the Writing Center Back Lounge on Mon 4/22 during Common Hour (1:50 […]

It’s here! The CFP for this spring annual English Grad Conference! Here’s the Word doc, with a link to a google form for submission: CFP_SJU […]

On Sat Feb 3, Steve Mentz will be a guest of the Barge Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for an hour-ish of informal conversation about […]

Last Friday night I had the great pleasure of hearing SJU doctoral alumna Dr. Danielle Lee speak at the Columbia Shakespeare Seminar. As expected, her […]

Congratulations to our PhD candidate Sonia Adams for being a recipient of the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship from the MLA! (The MLA, or Modern Language […]

Come join us for the final Bookmarks of the Fall ’23 semester, featuring Dr. Nicole Rice in dialogue with Dr. Steve Mentz about her new […]

After the floods washed us out on Friday 9/29, we’re going to try a second time in meteorologically flexible Zoomtopia, next Wed night 10/11 at […]

St. John’s students have the exciting opportunity this coming spring semester to study “Baseball, Black Culture, and Literature” with Dr. Raj Chetty, including a spring […]

Happy October! In a few weeks we’ll start advising and registering people for Spring 2024 courses. Here’s the calendar —   Oct 12: Courses available […]