Journey to the English Department

Perhaps most of you already know where the English Department is located on campus and how to find it.  Well, I remember my first visit to the Department and it wasn't easy to get there without a little help.  So for those of you who may be new to the English Department, I hope this mini photo-tour is helpful to you, and to all - please enjoy!

 

St. John Hall is a bit obscured behind the beautiful fall foliage here.  This view is taken from the front doors of the St. Thomas More Church.  The Law School (Belson Hall) would be just to the right of St. John Hall.  Now that you're oriented, we'll head through the front doors, down the stairs to the basement, and we'll turn left passing the Fine Arts Department.

Don't forget to stop and say hello to Gina and Lana in the office!  We'll be introducing you to them this week - so stay tuned.

Gina and Lana will direct you just around the corner to B40 - Home of the St. John's English Department!  Here you'll be able to meet the professors or even have class in the seminar room (all the way at the end of the hall).  We can't wait to introduce you to the rest of the Department soon.  Hope you all are having a safe and happy autumn season!

Graduate Course Spring 2011- Day Change

Please note: There is a correction for the day slot for Prof. Maertz's Eng 100: Modern Critical Theories.  The correct date and time is highlighted in red in the post under Graduate Course Offerings on Thursday,  October 21.

No other changes to the list have been made. We will update as warranted.

Time Change- Graduate Course Eng 800

Please note: The time for Prof. Scott Combs's Forms and Themes in Film course has been corrected. The correct date and time is highlighted in red in the post under Graduate Course Offerings on Thursday,  October 21.

No other changes to the list have been made. We will update as warranted.

Staten Island - 2011 Spring Registration

The Staten Island Spring 2011 Course offerings are out! Below are course titles, professors, and dates/times for each class. For a PDF with complete course descriptions, click here. Students must get priority numbers from the Dean's office after advisement. Registration begins October 26.

Call For Papers

Happy Monday!

You may have already noticed that we have a section on the left-hand side of the blog titled "Call For Papers." The links in this section will bring you to the website or a PDF with all of the information you will need to submit. These links will be updated on a continual basis as CFP's come in. Keep an eye out for new links, many more will be coming in.

In the meantime, our newest CFP is for:

Food! The Conference! 2011 CUNY English Student Association Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Friday, March 18, 2011. Click here for details.

World Literature Events and CFPs, via Dr. Dohra Ahmad

Suddenly there seem to be tons of World Literature-related events and CFPs popping up. Here are a couple of upcoming ones that Dr. Ahmad has already shared with her “Teaching World

Literature” grad class, that I thought other students might be interested in as well. Two are upcoming events at NYU (the second of which is part of an ongoing series on canonical revisions) and the last is a CFP for a conference next spring.

Spring 2011 Registration

It's registration season!

Below you can find the registration calendar for this coming spring.  

Before you register, you must should with your adviser  to select your courses.  You should bring a Registration form and your advisement report to that meeting.

Registration forms are available in the Dean's office in St. John Hall.

You can generate an advisement report by going to the UIS tab in St. John's Central. 

Graduate Course Offerings - Spring 2011

Graduate Course Offerings have just been sent out!  Below are course titles, professors, and dates/times for each class.  For a PDF with complete course descriptions, click here.  Registration begins November 10.  Students need to get registration numbers from Gina or Lana in the Department Office.  See our separate post for Undergraduate Course Offerings. Please note the time for Prof. Scott Combs's Forms and Themes in Film course has been corrected. The correct date and time is highlighted in red.


Please note the day for Prof. Maertz's Eng 100 Modern Critical Theories class is on Monday only, not Monday and Friday as originally posted. The corrected day is highlighted in red. 

ENG. 100: Modern Critical Theories (11357)

M 4:45-6:45 p.m. (there is no Friday session as originally posted)

Dr. Gregory Maertz

ENG. 260: Medieval Romance (14859)

T. 2:00-4:00- Dept. Lounge

Dr. Nicole Rice

ENG. 590: Topics in 19^th Century British Literature and Culture (14850)

W. 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Professor Rachel Hollander

“Late Victorian and Edwardian Fiction: Aesthetics and Politics”

ENG. 635: Narratives of American History (14852)

Modernization

M 6:55-8:55pm

Dr. Granville Ganter

ENG. 670: Topics in 19^th Century British Literature & Culture (15098)

T. 4:45-6:45 p.m.

Dr. Robert Fanuzzi

Hemispheric American Literature

ENG 755: Topics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (14856) 

Afro-modernism 

M. 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Dr. John Lowney

ENG. 800:  Forms and Themes in Film (14851)

R 4:45-6:45 p.m. ***Please note this is the corrected time slot as of 10/25***

Dr. Scott Combs

“The Work of Horror”  

ENG. 830: Allegory and Epic (14855)

R. 2:00-4:00 p.m. (Dept. Lounge)

Dr. Stephen Sicari

ENG. 878: Workshop in Poetry & Poetics (14854) 

T. 6:55-8:55 p.m.

Prof. Lee Ann Brown

Meet the Student Bloggers

Hi everyone! I'm Tara Bradway, a DA student and Artistic Director of the Adirondack Shakespeare Company.  I'm so excited to be contributing to and to welcome you to this brand new English Department Blog.

This is my first semester in the DA program, and while my interests are mostly in Shakespeare and performance, I am enjoying the opportunity to dabble in some other areas, including composition theory and 19th-century literature.  Prior to arriving at St. John's, I worked as a classical actor for several years and recently co-founded the Adirondack Shakespeare Company.  (Enjoy some photos from my acting adventures below!)

Anyhow, welcome to the blog! Don't be shy about sending us any information or news you'd like us to post, events you want to tell us about, or really anything at all you think the folks in, of, and/or near the English Department might be interested in hearing.

Macbeth, 1st Witch - ADK 2010

Henry V, Katherine - HSF 2005

Undergraduate Spring 2011 Course Offerings

Listed below are the Undergraduate English department course offerings for Spring 2011. For a PDF with complete course descriptions, click here. Graduate offerings will be in a separate post.

Meet The Student Bloggers

Hi, I’m Danielle Lee, D.A. student and Graduate Student Blogger. My interests include 19th and 20th century African-American Rhetoric, Composition, and Disability Studies. I am very excited to welcome you to a place for students to visit and read about what’s happening in the English department. We will be sharing exciting news about fellow students, posting Calls For Papers that may be of interest, and letting you know about upcoming Faculty Bookmark events. We greatly encourage you to send us news that you would like to share with your department family. This blog is a space for English majors, people who are thinking about becoming English majors, Undergraduate and Graduate students alike. And of course, we welcome our entire St. John’s University community.

Meet the Faculty Bloggers

Hi English-ers --

I'm Steve Mentz, Associate Professor at St. John's & newly-minted blogmaster.  Here's a picture of me taken last spring at Jones Beach by St. John's student Christianne Cain during the last meeting of our grad seminar on "Shakespeare and the World Ocean." 

At St. John's I mostly teach Shakespeare and early modern literature, but also literary theory, ecological criticism, maritime literature, and sometimes I move waywardly into short fiction, poetry, and even creative writing.  For more about me, see my website (www.stevementz.com) and its blog (www.stevementz.com/blog).

Anyone who wants to put an announcement or anything on this blog can send it through me, or through the graduate student bloggers, whose intro posts will soon appear.

Welcome to the English Department Blog!

This blog, born on 10/20/2010, will be an e-hub for St. John's University's English department and all the communities that are parts of it.  Put in in your Google Reader or other RSS feed!