Caribbean Writers Series Explores Cultural Richness and Diversity
We had an amazing event with writer Tiphanie Yanique. Read more about it here. Thanks to Tipahnie Yanique for coming to SJU!
Department News
Congrats to our Newly Minted Doctor, Jenn Schonwetter
Dr. Jenn Schonwetter successfully defended her dissertation on Monday, May 2. Congrats, Dr. Schonwetter, and good luck on all your endeavors!
Dr. Amy King Wins Outstanding Faculty Achievement Medal
Congrats to Dr. Amy King! Dr. Angela Belli is a 50 Years of Service Faculty Recipient If you’d like to attend, please see info below: […]
Doctoral Candidate Wins Two Awards: Lauren Williams
Dr. Anne Gellar reports on one of our doctoral candidates: Exciting news from Lauren Williams, doctoral student. She is English faculty at Thomas Nelson […]
4/22: Dr. Elda Tsou’s Bookmarks Event: Unquiet Tropes
This weekend was a full and exciting one for St. John’s English scholarship and intellectual conversation. On Friday, April 22, the night before our PhD […]
PhD Launch Conference – April 23, 2016
The gorgeous spring day of the Launch Conference for the SJU English PhD started early. ABD student Tara Bradway’s inspired performance of a speech of […]
Daniel José Older’s Fantastic Talk (4/14/16)
On Thursday April 14, novelist Daniel José Older gave a talk and reading in the Institute for Writing Studies Lounge. All the seats were full, […]
PhD Launch Conference Saturday!
Still not sure how to celebrate Shakespeare’s 400th deathaversary? Come to St John’s on Saturday for a conference to launch our new PhD in English! […]
Graduate Assistantships and Doctoral Fellowships Available
Dear Students: Please read through this long list to apply for DFs/GAs. At the bottom of the list are fellowships through non-academic units, but […]
“Prophecy and Sorrow: Women’s Oral Poetry in Ancient Greece,”Tuesday, April 12th, 5:00 p.m.
Professor Lisa Maurizio, Bates College “Prophecy and Sorrow: Women’s Oral Poetry in Ancient Greece” 206 D’Angelo Center, Tuesday, April 12th, 5:00 p.m. The Honors Program […]
Newly Minted English PhD: Kathleen Mulligan
Congrats to Kathleen Mulligan on successfully defending her dissertation (4/7)! Best of luck with your endeavors, Dr. Mulligan! (Pictured with […]
Newly Minted English PhD: Leslie Akst
Congratulations to Leslie Akst on successfully defending her dissertation (4/5)! Welcome to the fold, Dr. Akst!
Newly Minted English PhD: Melissa Rampelli
Congrats to Melissa Rampelli for successfully defending her dissertation (4/5)! Drs. Kathy Lubey (reader), Melissa Rampelli, Rachel Hollander (reader), Amy King (diss chair)
Newly Minted English PhD: Erica McCrystal
Congrats to Erica McCrystal for successfully defending her dissertation (4/5) ! (l to r) Drs. Greg Maertz (diss chair), Shante Paradigm […]
Newly Minted PhD English: Erin Gallagher
Congrats to Erin Gallagher for successfully defending her dissertation on 3/31! Good luck with your endeavors, Dr. Gallagher!
Three New Full Professors!
Congratulations to Professor Lee Ann Brown and Drs. Melissa Mowry and Nicole Rice on their promotions to Professor! Happy Women’s History Month, indeed!
SJU Faculty and Grad Students at MLA
St. John’s University Department of English was well-represented at the 2016 Modern Languages Association (MLA) conference in Austin, TX. Doctoral students Laura Lisbeth and Cristina […]
2015 Faculty Publications #2
Happy New Year, everyone! Here are a few more entries for our very productive English faculty: Dr. Raj Chetty Co-editor with Amaury Rodríquez. “Dominican […]
Faculty Publications in 2015
This is an incomplete list of the tremendous scholarship the English faculty publishes. This doesn’t include all of the talks, conferences, symposium, and other research […]
Free Interfolio Access for SJU Alums and Students
From Dr. Geller: Because it’s grad school application and jobhunting season and I thought some of you might not know this, Interfolio is available via […]
Doctoral course requirements change
As some early-bird doctoral students noticed when the grad flyer came out earlier today, ENG 105 is not being offered during the S16 semester. Effective […]
Ramzi Fawaz Talk, Cosmopolitics: Fantasies of Race and Species in The Fantastic Four
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