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 — […]
Articles by Steve Mentz
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 […]
Shakespeare at St John’s! (M 12/5 at 8pm)
Come to the Little Theater next Monday night at 8 pm to see St John’s students perform Shakespeare’s comedy of shipwreck, mistaken identity, gender confusion, […]
From the St John’s English Department
Many of you will have received this message from the English department in response to recent events by email. We also want to post it […]
Steve Mentz on Cervantes and Shakespeare (10/13)
This Thursday, as part of St. John’s International Conference on Language and Literature, Dr Steve Mentz of the SJU English department will give a talk […]
Dead Horse Lear: After the Storm
[Cross-posted from http://stevementz.com/dead-horse-lear-after-the-storm/) What if, after the world ends, all that’s left is beauty? Not decoration, or symmetry, or even geometric regularity, but a broken and […]
Two new SJU Doctors!
Congrats to Jane Clay and Nathalie Virgintino, who each successfully defended her dissertation during the busy first two weeks of the fall semester! We at […]
F16 Shakespeare in Performance
[cross-posted from stevementz.com] Any and all SJU-ers are welcome to join me and my Shakespeare class for these productions this fall! Contact me if you’re […]
CFP: Two NeMLA panels
Our department’s doctoral candidate Katelynn Deluca is chairing two panels at NeMLA in Baltimore this coming March in Baltimore. Please contact her at the email […]
CFP for NeMLA Panel: Deadline 9/30/16
Here’s a NeMLA panel (it’s in Baltimore this coming March) panel that might interest some of our students — Comparative Imperialisms and Transnational Violence (Panel […]
New York College English Conference: Oct 14-15, 2016
The English Department at Suffolk County Community College will be sponsoring the New York College English Association’s annual conference this October (10/14-10/15). The theme this […]