Registration Deadlines — for Spring 2018 classes
We should have updated versions of the English course flyers for the S18 semester soon. In the meantime, as you start making plans to meet […]
Articles by Steve Mentz
Congrats to Dr. Danielle Lee!
On Friday afternoon, after the office lights had gone out and the campus rushed off into this gorgeous late-summer weather, a committee of Drs. Mentz, […]
Congrats to Dr. Regina Corallo!
Another new St. John’s English PhD! Her committee of Drs. Dohra Ahmad, Jen Travis, and Scott Combs send congratulations to Dr. Regina Corallo. Her innovative […]
Congrats to Dr. Tara Bradway!
Yesterday afternoon St. John’s doctoral candidate Tara Bradway treated her committee of Drs. Mentz, Hollander, and Sicari to a dazzling conversation about Shakespeare, performance, and […]
NeMLA 2018
The 2018 keynote speaker will be Professor Rob Nixon, the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment at […]
Paid Publishing Internship
Our new FYW colleague Suzanne Cope has asked that any students interested in a paid Publicity Internship at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a major publisher in […]
SJU Doctoral Alum Dr. Mike Jacobs
As we make our way back to Queens this fall, we’d like to celebrate the achievements of one of our English graduate program alums. Dr. […]
U Mass – Grad Student Conference in Renaissance Studies (10/28; deadline 9/22)
The Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will host its fifteenth annual graduate student conference on Saturday, October […]
CFP: Mellon Emerging Scholars Conference “Sustaining Diverse and Inclusive Communities”
[A special note to SJU students: this conference at Queens College is organized by former SJU and History Professor Michael Wolfe, who helped design and […]
More SJU English PhD Success Stories!
A few more of our recent St. John’s English PhDs have had successes that didn’t make it into last week’s web-story over on stjohns.edu — […]
Newly Minted Dr Katelynn DeLuca
Congratulations to Dr Katelynn DeLuca, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Rejecting Erasure and Embracing Class Identities: Working Class Theory and Praxis in the Writing Classroom,” last […]
Two More New Doctors! Laura Lisabeth & Phil Grayson
It’s the season for new Doctors! Congratulations to Dr. Laura Lisabeth, who on Tuesday afternoon defended her dissertation, “Arcades of Style: E.B. White, William Strunk […]
Dead Horse Bay Exhibition and Poetry Reading – Sat 3/25 3pm
St Johnnies who’ve been to any of the Oceanic New York events or students from the “Open King Lear” course who remember our trip to Dead Horse […]
Fall 2017 Course offerings
Spring started yesterday, but fall is just around the corner! Here are the course flyers for Grad and Undergraduate courses for next fall. FALL 2017 […]
SJU Summer 2017 Grad Courses and Fellowships
The English department will offer two online grad seminars this coming summer. We also have a very limited number of tuition-only fellowships to support students […]
Rutgers English Diversity Institute: deadline extended to 3/20
The application deadline for the Rutgers English Diversity Institute has been extended to March 20, 2017! This week-long program, running from June 3rd until June […]
Online Teaching Essentials course — March 13 – April 9, 2017
The Summer 2017 offering of Online Teaching Essentials is now open for registration. Any English faculty of graduate students who plan to teach online or […]
Brooklyn College Grad Conference CFP
Saturday May 6 at Brooklyn College. Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to bcgradconference@gmail.com by March 1, 2017. Here’s the flyer: BrooklynCollegeEnglishCfP2017
Two full-time positions at Penn State Worthington Scranton
We’ve received a letter from Eva Tettenborn,at PSU Worthington Scranton that might interest our graduate students — Will you please share these two listings for […]
Post-Docs at Georgia Tech
Here’s a link to the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowships at Georgia Tech. The Writing and Communication Program at Georgia Tech seeks recent PhDs in rhetoric, […]
SJU at MLA
For anyone heading to Philadelphia this weekend for #mla17, here’s a list of SJU-connected panels and presentations. Let us know if we’ve missed anyone! Graduate […]
CFP: American Studies conference at Binghamton (April 2017)
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies (8th Annual) Binghamton University Saturday, April 8, 2017 Keynote: Russ Castronovo, University of […]