Summer Grad Online Courses

I can't attach Word documents to this blog, so you'll have to look around the department after break for the version of this flyer with pretty images.  But even without pictures I wanted to let everyone know about the three summer online graduate courses that we're offering this summer, one in session I (May 31 - July 6), Trauma Studies with Dr. Travis, and two in session II (July 7 - Aug 10), a Shakespeare and Biographical Myths course with me (Dr. Mentz), and a Writing Pedagogy course with Dr. Denny.  

Please tell your friends about these courses as well -- students who are not yet enrolled but thinking about graduate studies in English can take one or more of these courses prior to applying to the program.  Details after the jump.

Bookmarks T 3/29: Stephen Sicari

Please come to the Institute for Writing Studies, and bring your friends, to our next Bookmarks celebration of Dr. Stephen Sicari's new book,  

Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914: Joyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot.  

Tuesday March 29

3:00 – 4:30 pm

Institute for Writing Studies

Refreshments provided

Click through for the flyer.  Refreshments will be served!

St. John's Academic Writing Competition

The Washington, DC Alumni Chapter is sponsoring an Alumni Insider’s View: Writing Competition for full-time students currently attending St. John’s University at the undergraduate or graduate level (excluding Law students). This competition is created to encourage scholarly writing on a broad-based topic of national importance. I encourage your students to participate in this wonderful program with a cash prize! The due date is Monday, April 4, 2011.

Fall 2011 Undergraduate Course Listings

Here they are, as promised! Click "read more" for the full listing of undergraduate course listings for the fall.

Don't forget that summer courses are also listed on the St. John's website if you are interested in registering for summer classes.

Fall 2011 Graduate Course Listings

Below you will find a full listing of the Graduate course offerings for Fall 2011. Undergraduate course offerings will be posted as soon as they are available!

Grad students, please email Gina for priority numbers. Registration begins Monday, April 11.

Spring break and beyond

We've made it to spring break! Congratulations are certainly in order.

On the other side of break, however, we have a lot going on, and the end of the semester will be here before we know it. Don't forget that registration for the summer and fall is nearly here. Course offerings will be available soon, and registration will begin on March 29.

The English Graduate Conference will be held on Saturday, April 16 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Be on the look out for the conference schedule. We will post that here once it becomes available.

And we will be starting a series of posts on the faculty and staff of the department so you can have the opportunity to get to know them a little better. Lots of exciting things on the horizon!

Also, I want to say thank you to all of you who came out to support the Bookend Project over the last few weekends. It was wonderful to have such supportive, intelligent, engaged and friendly faces in the audience. Thank you!

Have a safe and relaxing break!

Call for Papers: Hunter College Grad Conference

"Subversive Texts/Radical Readings"

If every text is a product of an established tradition, written in a preexisting language, how does a text become subversive? Does subversion lie in the speaker's voice and his or her intent? Does it depend directly on that, which it means to undermine? Is subversion created in the interaction between different cultures, and if so, in a globalized society are all texts, by definition, subversive? Is it tied directly to the language that is being used, making literature written in dialect inherently subversive, while rendering texts written “in the language of the oppressor” less likely to undermine the dominant ideology? Or does it take a reading – radical in either its extreme or fundamental perspective – to make a text (any text) subversive? What role does reading play in challenging hegemony? In a world where texts (speeches, slogans, communications) can still be found at the center of every revolution and societal rift, it is important to explore their immeasurable poten
tial to impact those they reach.

To that end, the Hunter College Graduate Student Conference on “Subversive Texts/ Radical Readings” is seeking abstracts of 150-250 words for papers that will examine the ways in which texts can subvert the dominant discourse across the disciplines, as well as what it means for them to do so. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• The role of subversive texts in shifting the balance of power in a globalized community.
• The ability of texts to communicate non-mainstream/subversive/revolutionary ideas.
• The potential of subversive texts to cross cultural, linguistic, and geopolitical boundaries.
• The ways that new interdisciplinary approaches can radicalize texts.
• Subversion that lies in the examination of absences and omissions within texts.
• The ways that we can define “subversive texts” and “radical readings.”


The Graduate Student Conference will be held May 6-7th, 2011, at Hunter College, New York, NY. Details of the conference can be found at the conference website, https://sites.google.com/site/huntercollegegec/

Please send abstracts/inquiries to the conference organizers at HunterGEC@gmail.com by March 13th, 2011.

All proposals should include your name, affiliation, contact information (including email address), and a short bio. Please do not include your name on the attached abstracts/proposals, as they will be selected by blind review. Proposals sent in by graduate students will be given priority, however, we will consider proposals from independent scholars and recent graduates.

Please note that all papers should be delivered in 15-20 minutes.