Please Join Us For the Next Event in the MFA Reading Series

Eros & Loss: Poetry from the Students of Akilah Olivier

When & Where:

Sunday, April 13
4-5:45 PM

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
Manhattan

A C E D F or V to West 4th Street
1 or 9 to Sheridan

Reading:

Teodorico Ampudia
Christine Gans
Stephanie Gray
Jalene Mojica
Gary R. Parrish
Alicia C. Zapata

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Summer English Courses!

Attention all students!

As you know, all Brooklyn Campus students are required to take ENG 16 and two courses selected from ENG 61, 62, 63, 64.

Do you still need one or more of these English courses? Or do you just want an interesting elective? Perhaps you are working toward a minor in English (or interested in doing so)? Or perhaps you are an English major and need an English elective?

Why not satisfy one or more of these requirements during the summer?

See your academic advisor to register today!

(If you are interested in majoring or minoring in English, contact Wayne Berninger, at 718-780-4328, or via e-mail at wayne.berninger@liu.edu.

The English Department is offering the following courses in Summer 2008:

ENG 14
1 section, runs from May 19 to August 6

ENG 16
2 sections in Summer One
1 section in Summer Two

ENG 16X
1 section in Summer One

ENG 61
1 section in Summer One
1 section in Summer Two

ENG 62
1 section in Summer One

ENG 63
3 sections in Summer One
1 section in Summer Two)

ENG 64
1 section in Summer One
1 section in Summer Two

ENG 126 News Writing, cross-listed with JOU 119 and taught by faculty from Journalism Department.
1 section in Summer One
This course will count as an English elective for those English majors concentrating in Literature.
It will count toward the English minor.
It will count as a general elective for anyone else.

ENG 150 (1 section in Summer One. African-American Literature.
Will count as a Literature elective for English majors in any concentration.
Will count toward the English minor.
Will count as a general elective for anyone else.)

English Department Spring Open House!

Thursday, April 3, 11am-12noon
Humanities Building, 4th Floor Lounge

Pizza and soda will be served!

The English Department holds the annual Open House to celebrate current majors, alumni, and faculty and to introduce the department to interested students from across the campus. The event is an opportunity for LIU students and prospective students to learn more about the English department and about the many careers open to English majors and minors.

Participants include professors, graduate students, undergraduate majors, alumni, and friends. Current faculty are available to chat with students about their courses and their research interests. English majors and Master's degree candidates contribute student perspectives, and alumni speak about their many and varied careers.

Senior alumni attendees have included several World War II veterans who began their college careers before the current campus was built and went on to work in journalism, business and education. More recent graduates have spoken of their experiences as teachers, professional writers, and novelists.

The Open House provides students with the opportunity to introduce themselves to faculty, propose new courses, and do some crucial networking. Faculty reconnect with former students, catch up with colleagues, and introduce themselves to new and potential majors.

Above all, the Open House is a chance for the department's talented and diverse constituencies to enjoy a few hours of relaxed talk and laughter together in the midst of a busy academic year.

We sincerely hope you will join us!

Voices of the Rainbow: The Annual Adjuncts & Graduate Students Reading

When & Where:

Wednesday, April 9, 1:00 PM
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor Lounge

Readers:

Pamela Sneed
Lara Stapleton
Margot Marie Nasti

Pamela Sneed, who teaches in the Speech and Theater Department, has been featured in many venues, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Source, and Time Out. She has performed her work internationally and is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery.

Lara Stapleton, who teaches in the English Department, is the author of the PEN Open Book Award winner, The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing; Juncture ; and, with Gina Apostol and Eric Gamalinda, The Thirdest World: Stories and Essays by Three Filipino Writers, published in 2007.

Margot Marie Nasti is a graduate student in the MFA program . She has read her poetry in various locations and has published in the chapbook Buttons -n- Boots. She is the editor of Blue Leaf Press.

Light refreshments will be served.

Please come and support your teachers, students, and colleagues.

Funding for this event is provided by the Provost’s office, the English Department & the Department of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre.

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Our Condolences to the Longtin Family

Dr. Ray C. Longtin, who retired from Long Island University in 1980, passed away last week.

Ray C. Longtin’s career at LIU began when the university expanded from 250 to 5,000 students as a result of the G.I. Bill of Rights for Veterans following WW II. As a member of the English Department, he specialized in American literature, having earned his Ph. D in that area. He was an outstanding teacher as testified to by the students who stayed in touch with him long after they graduated. A good many went on to productive careers as college professors and scholars. Others enjoyed success as lawyers and in various professions, but all who studied under him professed a great indebtedness to Dr. Longtin. Many continued to correspond with him long after his retirement. At an English Department reunion last year, he was the name most mentioned with admiration by former students. When he became a dean at LIU, he displayed those qualities that had made him an exceptional teacher: honesty, dedication, and wisdom. He has been gone from LIU for a long time, but all those he worked with and kept in touch with will miss him greatly.

Reminder: Voices of the Rainbow Event

Ishle Yi Park
Tuesday, April 1, 12 noon
Library Learning Center, Room 124

Ishle Yi Park, former Poet Laureate of Queens, is the author of the poetry collection The Temperature of This Water. She is a regular on Def Poetry Jam.

This reading is co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program.

Faculty Forum Event: Maria McGarrity & Srividhya Swaminathan

Please join us for the next event in the English Department Faculty Forum.

The Summer of Our Discontent: Researching European Incursion into Africa

Maria McGarrity
“James Joyce and Roger Casement in the Congo”

Srividhya Swaminathan
“How Does Slavery Become Status Quo?”

Professors McGarrity and Swaminathan will be presenting work resulting from NEH Summer Seminars in Dublin, Ireland and Charlottesville, Virginia.

When & Where:
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
3-4 PM
Humanities Building, 4th floor lounge

Light refreshments will be served.

for further information contact Sealy Gilles (Chair of English) at 718-488-1050.

MFA Reading Series: Incantation: Prose & Poetry of the Primal

When & Where:

Sunday, March 30, 8-9:30 PM
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, at the foot of First Street,
between Hudson & Bleecker
Manhattan

Travel Directions:

F to Second Avenue or 6 to Bleecker

Reading:

Lorinda Mouzon, Giorgios Qure-Lacroix Retsinas, Charles Thorne, Jon L. Peacock, Gary Parrish, Mary Walker, John High, Elspeth MacDonald, Tamara Lebron, Kristen Walker, Jessica Rogers, Charulata L. Dyal, Sri Raman, Carolyn Smith, nell del guidice.

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Voices of the Rainbow: New Event Added to Spring 2008 Schedule
The Annual Adjuncts & Graduate Students Reading

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
1:00 PM
Humanities Building, 4th Floor Lounge

Readers:

Pamela Sneed
Lara Stapleton
Margot Marie Nasti

Pamela Sneed, who teaches in the Speech and Theatre Department, has been featured in many venues, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Source, and Time Out. She has performed her work internationally and is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery.

Lara Stapleton, who teaches in the English Department, is the author of The Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing (a PEN Open Book Award winner), Juncture, and recently The Thirdest World: Stories and Essays by Three Filipino Writers (with Gina Apostol and Eric Gamalinda).

Margot Marie Nasti is a graduate student in the English Department's MFA program in creative writing. She has read her poetry in various locations and has published in the chapbook Buttons -n- Boots. She is the editor of Blue Leaf Press.

Please come and support your teachers, students, and colleagues. Light refreshments will be served.

Funding provided by the Provost's Office; the English Department; and the Department of Communication Studies, Performance Studies and Theatre.

"Music and Society: Transformations in Brazilian Popular Music and Modernist Compositional Technique" (An Informal Talk by Fabio Akcelrud Durao)

Monday March 24th, 3:30 to 5:00 PM
Where: 8th Floor, H Building

Professor Fabio Akcelrud Durao (State University of Campinas [Brazil]) will speak on recent developments in Brazilian popular music, and the discussion should be interesting.

Professor Durao will describe what happens when the most advanced, formal, modernist compositional technique--twelve tone composition--sometimes synonymous with modern music itself, crosses the Atlantic and takes harbor in Brazilian popular music.

Can “popular music” be “advanced” music? What happens when it tries to be? What happens when the composer hardly knows what he is doing with these complex techniques? And what controversies can “serious” composers find themselves mixed up in when confronted with the strange artifact of advanced popular composition?

Fabio Akcelrud Durao is professor of literary theory at the State University of Campinas (Brazil) and author of Modernism and Coherence: Four Chapters of a Negative Aesthetics.

Professor Robert Hullot-Kentor (English) is hosting this event. For more information, contact Professor Hullot-Kentor by email at:

Robert.Hullot-Kentor@liu.edu.