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 […]
Articles by Steve Mentz
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 — […]
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 […]