Don't forget the Bookmarks event next week!

A reminder: The English Department is hosting our first Bookmarks event of the spring semester.

Come join us for a talk with Dr. Sicari on his new book, Modern Humanism and the Men of 1914: Joyce, Lewis Pound, and Eliot.

Institute for Writing Studies
Back Lounge
Tuesday, March 29
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Refreshments will be provided.

Huck Finn discussion - Tuesday at noon

Greetings!

There will be a roundtable discussion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the library tomorrow.

TIME: March 22, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Library Room 407

Professors Jennifer Travis, Dohra Ahmad, Caroline Fuchs, and Grantville Ganter will be discussing a new edition of Huckleberry Finn , which is reprinted without the racial slurs. All are welcome to come and talk about it.

Fall 2011 Graduate Schedule Change

Please note the time for Dr. Lubey's class has changed and is now 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

 

ENG 855: Theory of the Novel (75130)

R. 2:00-400 p.m.

Dr. Kathleen Lubey

This course will acquaint students with the “long history” of novel theory and the changing ways in which literary critics have defined the origins, attributes, and socio-political function of the genre. We will read a few novels as test cases for our theoretical readings, probably by Henry Fielding, Virginia Woolf, and J.M. Coetzee. But our discussions will be rooted in understanding the enduring questions that are diversely taken up by literary critics of the novel: what formal and ideological features define the novel? What is the relationship between the novel form and modernity? What politics are mobilized by the genre’s unique ways of formulating subjectivity and the objective world? These and other questions will be pursued as we understand the singularity of each novel theorist as well as the dialogue each critic sustains with the larger field. Our theoretical readings will cover “old” and “new” formalisms (Frye, Booth, Lukacs, Bakhtin; Gallagher, Levine); post-structural challenges to genre theory (Culler, Derrida); theories of the novel’s origins and social politics (Watt, McKeon, Moretti, Jameson, Benjamin); theories of the novel and gender (Sedgwick, Armstrong, Brown), and of its post-colonial context (Attridge, Appiah). Evaluation will be based on participation and papers, equaling 20-25 pages.

Grad Students: Applications available for Sigma Tau Delta

Welcome back from spring break!

Dr. Combs, the Faculty Advisor for the St. John's Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, has sent around applications for English graduate students to apply to Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.

To be eligible for consideration, the following requirements must be met:

• 3 Graduate English courses (minimum GPA 3.70)
• A short essay (maximum 250 words) considering your relationship with literature and literary studies and how the Honor Society can enhance your experience as a student of English at St. John's
• a signature from Dr. Combs

For additional details, please see the application document.

Applications are due to Dr. Combs by Thursday, March 31. Notification of acceptance will be sent via email by Monday, April 4. The induction fee of $47 will be due Thursday, April 14.

For more information, please contact the English Honor Society at english.stj@gmail.com, Dr. Combs at combss@stjohns.edu, or visit the National website at www.english.org.

Best of luck!

Study Abroad Opportunity

The University of New Hampshire is proud to sponsor its thirty-third annual faculty-led summer program in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University. The program is open to all second-, third-, and fourth-year undergraduates with a minimum GPA of 2.50; all graduate students with a minimum GPA of 2.50; a limited number of first-year students with exceptional records; and anyone who has completed their formal education with a minimum of one full year of college.

The program will be accommodated at Gonville and Caius College, one of the oldest and best known of the thirty-one colleges that make up Cambridge University. Students stay at the college from July 11 – August 19, 2011, and choose from a series of courses taught by a distinguished British and American faculty.

Upcoming Event.....

The Real Afghan Diaries: Educating Children in Afghanistan

Thursday, March 24, 2010

Writing Center

10am-11:30am

Ian Pounds is an American who lives with orphans in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he has volunteered as an educator for two years.  These orphanages are one of a kind programs run by the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO). Isolated in a section of the city otherwise off limits to western workers, Pounds teaches English, drama, photography, and computer skills to 180 children. Please join us to hear about his experiences and to learn more about the struggles to educate young women in Afghanistan.

DMI Scholars- Deadline is Monday!!

Sorry for the late posting, folks!!
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Dear St. John’s University faculty, staff and student leaders,

DMI Scholars is a program of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, putting progressive college activists on the path to careers in public policy. We are looking for undergraduate sophomores, juniors and seniors attending college in the NYC metro area.  All program expenses are covered.  Students can go to www.dmischolars.org <http://www.dmischolars.org/> or http://www.drummajorinstitute.com/dmischolars/for more info & to apply!

Deadline is March 14.