Dr. Laura Lisabeth, St John’s PhD alum
On the first day of the fall semester, we at the SJU English blog want to celebrate the recent triumphs of one of our own, […]
Articles by Steve Mentz
Bookmarks for the Academic Year!
Mark your calendars for the new academic year and four scheduled Bookmarks events to celebrate new books by our faculty! All events are open to […]
Grad Student Lisa Robinson receives grant from Folger Shakespeare Library
St. John’s English PhD student Lisa Robinson has been awarded a travel and expenses grant to attend a research symposium hosted by the Folger Shakespeare […]
Dean’s Symposium on Modernity: M 4/8 DAC 206
Come hear perspectives on “modernity” and “the modern” from four different disciplines in St. John’s College of Arts and Ideas this coming Monday during Common […]
Makbet in the Seminar Room!
On Tuesday Feb 26, between 3 and 5 pm, the St. John’s English seminar room will feature regicide, madness, and Great Birnam Wood coming to […]
Writer’s House Intern Program: Spring ’19
A great internship possibility for St John’s students! Two of our recent graduates have gone from this internship program into careers in publishing. WRITERS HOUSE […]
Thinking about Online Learning
For anyone (else!) who’s been dipping a toe into Online Education and wondering how it is changing our academic lives, here at St. John’s and […]
Post-doc and funded PhD positions in Norway
Please find below information about a postdoc position and the Ph.D. program at the University of Bergen in Norway. English is the language of instruction […]
Poetry Reading with Professor Lee Ann Brown (10/2/18)
http://kgbbar.com/calendar/events/kgb_livemag_reading/ KGB Bar October 02, 2018 http://livemag.org/ LiVE MAG! presents issue #15 PREVIEW OF A REVIEW featuring Amy Barone Anselm Berrigan Lee Ann Brown David […]
Evening class at Lander College for Men (Kew Gardens)
Dr. Matt Zarnowiecki, Chair of English at Touro Collge, would be interested in considering SJU students to teach a late evening composition class at the […]
Fall conference CFP: Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking Across the Curriculum”
[Sent via Dean Michael Jacobs, a distinguished SJU English-alum who has for years helped run this conference with good representation from St. John’s students. Please […]
St John’s at #MLA18 in New York! Including Happy Hour Fri 1/5
[Please send more info if you know of other SJU-ers at MLA!] […]
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 […]
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 — […]