Wednesday, December 10, 6PM
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Just in time for the Christmas season, we will be presenting a one-man performance of Charles Dickens' The Chimes, a witty, ironic and poignant short novel exposing how the rich think the poor ought to live. Performed by actor/author David Houston, who has appeared in leading roles in scores of plays and musicals.
Spring 2009 Courses: Undergraduate
Attention English Majors!
Program Guidance & Registration Start Monday, November 17.
Make an appointment now & register early!
English Majors: If you are an English major, please meet with Wayne Berninger (the English Department’s new Registration Advisor) as early as possible to register for the English classes you need. Doing so will help ensure that courses are not cancelled and that you don’t have to scramble to find replacement courses at the last minute. Attached to this flyer you will find descriptions of the courses being offered in Spring 2009. Consult the English Department website to determine which courses you still need for your particular concentration (i.e., Creative Writing, Literature, or Writing & Rhetoric).
Non-English Majors: English courses aren’t only for English majors! The writing and analytical skills that students gain in English classes are very useful in a variety of professional careers. So even if you are not majoring in English, you can still take upper-division English courses—as long as you have completed the prerequisites. If you really want to build up your transcript, consider an English Minor, which consists of any four English courses numbered 100 or above. If you’d like more information about minoring in English—or if you think you might like to major in English— contact Wayne Berninger .
THE COURSES...
English 101: Introduction to English Studies (Class ID# 6714)
Professor Patricia Stephens
Tuesdays 6:00-8:30pm
This course is REQUIRED for English majors in all three concentrations (Literature, Creative Writing, Writing & Rhetoric). You MUST take ENG 101 within the first two semesters after completing the core English courses (ENG 16 and two courses from ENG 61-62-63-64). If you are at this stage and you don’t take ENG 101 in Spring 2009, then you MUST take it in Fall 2009. Yes, you MAY take other ENG courses at the same time as ENG 101.
This course will introduce students to the broad field of English Studies, with a specific focus on the areas of concentration offered at LIU/Brooklyn: Literature, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Writing. In general, the course is designed to familiarize English majors and minors with 1) the history and scope of English studies, 2) the use of literary and rhetorical theories to interpret texts, and 3) the tools necessary for close reading, written analysis, and research in the field. During the semester, students will learn about literary genres, periods, and terminology; creative experimentation in texts; and the foundations of argument. Along the way, we will also explore potential job options for students with a major or minor in English. Students will write one research paper and produce a portfolio of written work at the end of the semester. For more information, contact Professor Stephens at patricia.stephens@liu.edu.
English 104: Introduction to Creative Writing (Class ID# 6716)
Spoken Poetry—Finding Our Voices
Professor John High
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45 pm
This course is required in the Creative Writing concentration. It is a prerequisite for ENG 165, 166 and 167. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration. English majors concentrating in Creative Writing may take this class twice.
This class is designed for anyone who has ever wanted to write creatively yet who is not sure how to begin or how to move beyond where they are presently in their own writing. Topics include: getting started with the spoken poem, making it alive for you, and establishing a passionate discipline. The course will also zero in on backbone issues of style and technique, ranging from those of characterization and plotting in poetic diction, continuity and vividness of imagery, clarity and music, and the use of phrasing and structure. There will be weekly creative writing exercises and group discussions to guide you through the writing process where we will explore our ideas and feelings and give them shape through the langu age of our own voices. What is a spoken poem—what is a metaphor, the magic of language, the ghost of echoes and music that reflect your own vision of the world? How do we mine our experiences, our pasts, and our dreams? What do we mean when we talk about taking chances in writing? We'll look at the work of ancient and contemporary writers as well as younger writers publishing today. Critiques will focus on motivating you to tap the undefined territory of your own imagination in order to more fully cultivate and mature your own voice/s and styles. The goal of the course includes completion of a chapbook and/or anthology of our work and an in-class reading of your spoken poems. For more information, contact Professor High at john.high@liu.edu.
English 129: Later British Literatures (Class ID# 7636)
The Artist Coming of Age: Creating the “Uncreated Conscience”
Professor Maria McGarrity
Thursdays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course is required in the Literature concentration. It can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
This course will examine the development of artistic consciousness in the British tradition. We will examine the role of the artist in society, his or her alienation from society, the unique perspectives of the artist and his or her role as critic, both literary and social. We will begin with the youthful artistic idealism of Keats, move onto a discussion of Wordsworth’s vision of the poet, Byron’s art in action, and expand our vision of the artist to include the feminine with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot. We will transition into the Modern period with Wilde’s conception of criticism as art. Finally we will examine modernity and the aftermath of Joyce’s achievement through Yeats, Woolf, Sitwell, and Beckett. We will challenge the idea that any writer can, as Joyce claimed to through his character Stephen Dedalus, “create the uncreated conscience of [his] race.” Selected Texts: Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh; Beckett, More Pricks than Kicks; Byron, Don Juan; Eliot, The Mill on the Floss; Keats, Selected Letters; Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and “The Dead”; Sitwell, “The Poet’s Lament”; Wilde, “The Critic as Artist”; Woolf, A Room of One’s Own; Wordsworth, The Prelude; Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Byzantium,” “Lapis Lazuli,” and The Trembling of the Veil. For more information, contact Professor McGarrity at maria.mcgarrity@liu.edu.
English 159: American Literature After the Civil War (Class ID# 6452)
Modern American Culture and the Myth of Oz
Professor Patrick Horrigan
Mondays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course is required in the Literature concentration. It can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
The course follows the figure of the wanderer in search of home as he/she is reincarnated again and again throughout modern American culture. Taking Frederick Jackson Turner's seminal 1893 essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" as our point of departure, we will read L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and then go looking for later descendants of his pilgrims (Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion) in the mournful wanderer of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the restless and love-hungry heroine of Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the tragically self-ignorant American in Paris of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, the sympathetic midwestern murderers of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and the real-life child star and lost boy of Margo Jefferson's On Michael Jackson. The course is writing intensive. For more information, contact Professor Horrigan at patrick.horrigan@liu.edu.
English 166: Fiction Writing Workshop (Class ID# 6690)
Professor Lewis Warsh
Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45 pm
ENG 104 is a prerequisite for this course! This course will satisfy a requirement in the Creative Writing concentration. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration.
This workshop will focus on the way autobiography overlaps with fiction and how the past is fictionalized as a way of keeping it alive. The premise is that the source of most fiction is fading memories, whether we're aware of it or not. Though Jack Kerouac is the most obvious exponent of this method, we'll look at other writers of the last century (Marguerite Duras, Thomas Bernhard, Lydia Davis, John Edgar Wideman, Georges Perec, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Laura Riding, Jamaica Kincaid, James Ellroy, Maurice Blanchot) who struggle to cross the borders between fiction and life story. We'll concentrate on the conventions of fiction—plot, character, conflict—with an eye towards expanding on what's already been done. Our writing projects will include working with secrets, memories, observations, opinions, overheard conversations—fragments of everything. For more information, contact Professor Warsh at lewis.warsh@liu.edu.
English 168: Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop (Class ID# 7802)
Professor Harriet Malinowitz
Wednesdays 6:00-8:30 pm
ENG 104 is a prerequisite for this course. This course will satisfy a requirement in either the Writing & Rhetoric concentration or the Creative Writing concentration. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration. English majors concentrating in Creative Writing may take this class twice.
This is an intensive workshop devoted to writing literary essays, with a focus on the personal essay. The first few weeks will be devoted to reading literary essays by published authors and analyzing their form, style, the rhetorical strategies they employ, and their use of language. We will then move to a workshop format in which students read and critique each other's essays in detail. The goal of the workshop is to help the writer move toward effective revision; each student will be expected to produce either one long (20-30 pages) or two shorter (10-15 pages) revised piece(s) of creative nonfiction by the end of the term. We will use as a common text Philip Lopate’s The Art of the Personal Essay, as well as selected handouts. The writers we will read may include George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Natalia Ginzburg, Eric Liu, Atul Gawande, Richard Rodriguez, Patricia Williams, Cherie Moraga, Vivian Gornick, Gayle Pemberton, and Maxine Hong Kingston. For more information, contact Professor Malinowitz at harriet.malinowitz@liu.edu.
English 170: Contemporary African Literature and Film (Class ID# 10161)
Professor Jonathan Haynes
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45 pm
Attention: This semester only, this course can be used to satisfy the ENG 169 requirement in the Literature concentration. If you have already received credit for ENG 169, it can be used as an upper-division ENG elective in the Literature concentration. This course can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
This course explores contemporary Africa through the eyes of some of its most talented writers and filmmakers. They see a continent that is increasingly urbanized and exposed to globalization, but where deep cultural traditions continue to assert themselves and a vibrant popular culture compliments the perspectives of internationally-recognized artists. The problems of poverty, corruption, violence, and disease loom large, but so do the humor and resilience that keep Africa alive. The emergence of women’s voices has fundamentally reoriented Africa’s self-representation. Some recent works by towering senior figures of African culture will be included (the filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, the writer Wole Soyinka), but the emphasis will be on newer talents such as Ben Okri, Jean-Marie Teno, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, and Chimamanda Adichie. For more information, contact Professor Haynes at jonathan.haynes@liu.edu.
English 175: Writing for the Professions (Class ID# 10162)
Professor John Killoran
Thursdays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course will satisfy a requirement in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration.
This is a writing course for students in any field preparing for their careers. When you are given your first writing project on the job, will you know what to do? Writing for the Professions is an elective for students across the disciplines as well as in English who are looking ahead to prepare themselves to write for their careers in business, law, the health professions, science, technology, education, and the arts. Students will learn to orient their writing toward different audiences, such as managers, customers, clients, and professional colleagues. Students will also learn to write in ways that result in action. By the end of the semester, students will have written their resume and other career-related documents, and will be more confident in their abilities to write effectively. For more information, contact Professor Killoran at john.killoran@liu.edu.
English 190: Senior Seminar in Literature (Class ID# 6058)
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Literature concentration. Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of the English Department (Professor Sealy Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
English 191: Senior Seminar in Creative Writing (Class ID# 7390)
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Creative Writing concentration. Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of the English Department (Professor Sealy Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
English 192: Senior Seminar in Writing & Rhetoric (Class ID# 6470)
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration. Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of the English Department (Professor Sealy Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
Program Guidance & Registration Start Monday, November 17.
Make an appointment now & register early!
English Majors: If you are an English major, please meet with Wayne Berninger (the English Department’s new Registration Advisor) as early as possible to register for the English classes you need. Doing so will help ensure that courses are not cancelled and that you don’t have to scramble to find replacement courses at the last minute. Attached to this flyer you will find descriptions of the courses being offered in Spring 2009. Consult the English Department website to determine which courses you still need for your particular concentration (i.e., Creative Writing, Literature, or Writing & Rhetoric).
Non-English Majors: English courses aren’t only for English majors! The writing and analytical skills that students gain in English classes are very useful in a variety of professional careers. So even if you are not majoring in English, you can still take upper-division English courses—as long as you have completed the prerequisites. If you really want to build up your transcript, consider an English Minor, which consists of any four English courses numbered 100 or above. If you’d like more information about minoring in English—or if you think you might like to major in English— contact Wayne Berninger .
THE COURSES...
English 101: Introduction to English Studies (Class ID# 6714)
Professor Patricia Stephens
Tuesdays 6:00-8:30pm
This course is REQUIRED for English majors in all three concentrations (Literature, Creative Writing, Writing & Rhetoric). You MUST take ENG 101 within the first two semesters after completing the core English courses (ENG 16 and two courses from ENG 61-62-63-64). If you are at this stage and you don’t take ENG 101 in Spring 2009, then you MUST take it in Fall 2009. Yes, you MAY take other ENG courses at the same time as ENG 101.
This course will introduce students to the broad field of English Studies, with a specific focus on the areas of concentration offered at LIU/Brooklyn: Literature, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Writing. In general, the course is designed to familiarize English majors and minors with 1) the history and scope of English studies, 2) the use of literary and rhetorical theories to interpret texts, and 3) the tools necessary for close reading, written analysis, and research in the field. During the semester, students will learn about literary genres, periods, and terminology; creative experimentation in texts; and the foundations of argument. Along the way, we will also explore potential job options for students with a major or minor in English. Students will write one research paper and produce a portfolio of written work at the end of the semester. For more information, contact Professor Stephens at patricia.stephens@liu.edu.
English 104: Introduction to Creative Writing (Class ID# 6716)
Spoken Poetry—Finding Our Voices
Professor John High
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45 pm
This course is required in the Creative Writing concentration. It is a prerequisite for ENG 165, 166 and 167. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration. English majors concentrating in Creative Writing may take this class twice.
This class is designed for anyone who has ever wanted to write creatively yet who is not sure how to begin or how to move beyond where they are presently in their own writing. Topics include: getting started with the spoken poem, making it alive for you, and establishing a passionate discipline. The course will also zero in on backbone issues of style and technique, ranging from those of characterization and plotting in poetic diction, continuity and vividness of imagery, clarity and music, and the use of phrasing and structure. There will be weekly creative writing exercises and group discussions to guide you through the writing process where we will explore our ideas and feelings and give them shape through the langu age of our own voices. What is a spoken poem—what is a metaphor, the magic of language, the ghost of echoes and music that reflect your own vision of the world? How do we mine our experiences, our pasts, and our dreams? What do we mean when we talk about taking chances in writing? We'll look at the work of ancient and contemporary writers as well as younger writers publishing today. Critiques will focus on motivating you to tap the undefined territory of your own imagination in order to more fully cultivate and mature your own voice/s and styles. The goal of the course includes completion of a chapbook and/or anthology of our work and an in-class reading of your spoken poems. For more information, contact Professor High at john.high@liu.edu.
English 129: Later British Literatures (Class ID# 7636)
The Artist Coming of Age: Creating the “Uncreated Conscience”
Professor Maria McGarrity
Thursdays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course is required in the Literature concentration. It can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
This course will examine the development of artistic consciousness in the British tradition. We will examine the role of the artist in society, his or her alienation from society, the unique perspectives of the artist and his or her role as critic, both literary and social. We will begin with the youthful artistic idealism of Keats, move onto a discussion of Wordsworth’s vision of the poet, Byron’s art in action, and expand our vision of the artist to include the feminine with Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot. We will transition into the Modern period with Wilde’s conception of criticism as art. Finally we will examine modernity and the aftermath of Joyce’s achievement through Yeats, Woolf, Sitwell, and Beckett. We will challenge the idea that any writer can, as Joyce claimed to through his character Stephen Dedalus, “create the uncreated conscience of [his] race.” Selected Texts: Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh; Beckett, More Pricks than Kicks; Byron, Don Juan; Eliot, The Mill on the Floss; Keats, Selected Letters; Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and “The Dead”; Sitwell, “The Poet’s Lament”; Wilde, “The Critic as Artist”; Woolf, A Room of One’s Own; Wordsworth, The Prelude; Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium,” “Byzantium,” “Lapis Lazuli,” and The Trembling of the Veil. For more information, contact Professor McGarrity at maria.mcgarrity@liu.edu.
English 159: American Literature After the Civil War (Class ID# 6452)
Modern American Culture and the Myth of Oz
Professor Patrick Horrigan
Mondays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course is required in the Literature concentration. It can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
The course follows the figure of the wanderer in search of home as he/she is reincarnated again and again throughout modern American culture. Taking Frederick Jackson Turner's seminal 1893 essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" as our point of departure, we will read L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and then go looking for later descendants of his pilgrims (Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion) in the mournful wanderer of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the restless and love-hungry heroine of Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, the tragically self-ignorant American in Paris of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, the sympathetic midwestern murderers of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and the real-life child star and lost boy of Margo Jefferson's On Michael Jackson. The course is writing intensive. For more information, contact Professor Horrigan at patrick.horrigan@liu.edu.
English 166: Fiction Writing Workshop (Class ID# 6690)
Professor Lewis Warsh
Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45 pm
ENG 104 is a prerequisite for this course! This course will satisfy a requirement in the Creative Writing concentration. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration.
This workshop will focus on the way autobiography overlaps with fiction and how the past is fictionalized as a way of keeping it alive. The premise is that the source of most fiction is fading memories, whether we're aware of it or not. Though Jack Kerouac is the most obvious exponent of this method, we'll look at other writers of the last century (Marguerite Duras, Thomas Bernhard, Lydia Davis, John Edgar Wideman, Georges Perec, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Laura Riding, Jamaica Kincaid, James Ellroy, Maurice Blanchot) who struggle to cross the borders between fiction and life story. We'll concentrate on the conventions of fiction—plot, character, conflict—with an eye towards expanding on what's already been done. Our writing projects will include working with secrets, memories, observations, opinions, overheard conversations—fragments of everything. For more information, contact Professor Warsh at lewis.warsh@liu.edu.
English 168: Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop (Class ID# 7802)
Professor Harriet Malinowitz
Wednesdays 6:00-8:30 pm
ENG 104 is a prerequisite for this course. This course will satisfy a requirement in either the Writing & Rhetoric concentration or the Creative Writing concentration. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration. English majors concentrating in Creative Writing may take this class twice.
This is an intensive workshop devoted to writing literary essays, with a focus on the personal essay. The first few weeks will be devoted to reading literary essays by published authors and analyzing their form, style, the rhetorical strategies they employ, and their use of language. We will then move to a workshop format in which students read and critique each other's essays in detail. The goal of the workshop is to help the writer move toward effective revision; each student will be expected to produce either one long (20-30 pages) or two shorter (10-15 pages) revised piece(s) of creative nonfiction by the end of the term. We will use as a common text Philip Lopate’s The Art of the Personal Essay, as well as selected handouts. The writers we will read may include George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Natalia Ginzburg, Eric Liu, Atul Gawande, Richard Rodriguez, Patricia Williams, Cherie Moraga, Vivian Gornick, Gayle Pemberton, and Maxine Hong Kingston. For more information, contact Professor Malinowitz at harriet.malinowitz@liu.edu.
English 170: Contemporary African Literature and Film (Class ID# 10161)
Professor Jonathan Haynes
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45 pm
Attention: This semester only, this course can be used to satisfy the ENG 169 requirement in the Literature concentration. If you have already received credit for ENG 169, it can be used as an upper-division ENG elective in the Literature concentration. This course can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
This course explores contemporary Africa through the eyes of some of its most talented writers and filmmakers. They see a continent that is increasingly urbanized and exposed to globalization, but where deep cultural traditions continue to assert themselves and a vibrant popular culture compliments the perspectives of internationally-recognized artists. The problems of poverty, corruption, violence, and disease loom large, but so do the humor and resilience that keep Africa alive. The emergence of women’s voices has fundamentally reoriented Africa’s self-representation. Some recent works by towering senior figures of African culture will be included (the filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, the writer Wole Soyinka), but the emphasis will be on newer talents such as Ben Okri, Jean-Marie Teno, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, and Chimamanda Adichie. For more information, contact Professor Haynes at jonathan.haynes@liu.edu.
English 175: Writing for the Professions (Class ID# 10162)
Professor John Killoran
Thursdays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course will satisfy a requirement in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration. It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration.
This is a writing course for students in any field preparing for their careers. When you are given your first writing project on the job, will you know what to do? Writing for the Professions is an elective for students across the disciplines as well as in English who are looking ahead to prepare themselves to write for their careers in business, law, the health professions, science, technology, education, and the arts. Students will learn to orient their writing toward different audiences, such as managers, customers, clients, and professional colleagues. Students will also learn to write in ways that result in action. By the end of the semester, students will have written their resume and other career-related documents, and will be more confident in their abilities to write effectively. For more information, contact Professor Killoran at john.killoran@liu.edu.
English 190: Senior Seminar in Literature (Class ID# 6058)
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Literature concentration. Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of the English Department (Professor Sealy Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
English 191: Senior Seminar in Creative Writing (Class ID# 7390)
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Creative Writing concentration. Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of the English Department (Professor Sealy Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
English 192: Senior Seminar in Writing & Rhetoric (Class ID# 6470)
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration. Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of the English Department (Professor Sealy Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
Join Us for the Next "Voices of the Rainbow" Event:
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Thursday, November 6, Noon, Humanities Building, Room 206
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has been featured at over 275 performances worldwide including three seasons of HBO's award-winning Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam.
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Thursday, November 6, Noon, Humanities Building, Room 206
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has been featured at over 275 performances worldwide including three seasons of HBO's award-winning Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam.
Voices of the Rainbow Event
Gary Shteyngart & Marie-Elena John
Wednesday, October 8, Noon
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Gary Shteyngart was born in the Soviet Union. He is the author of the satiric novels The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, chosen as one of the New York Times' best books of 2006.
Marie-Elena Jones, a native of Antigua, is author of the novel Unburnable, "a love story, a murder mystery, a multigenerational epic, and a reinterpretation of Black history."
Wednesday, October 8, Noon
Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Gary Shteyngart was born in the Soviet Union. He is the author of the satiric novels The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, chosen as one of the New York Times' best books of 2006.
Marie-Elena Jones, a native of Antigua, is author of the novel Unburnable, "a love story, a murder mystery, a multigenerational epic, and a reinterpretation of Black history."
Faculty Forum Event
Professor Harriet Malinowitz (English Department) on "Propaganda: Persuasion in the Age of Unreason"
The Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Invites the LIU Brooklyn Campus Community to a Faculty Forum Presentation by Professor Harriet Malinowitz of the English Department
Title & Topic
"Propaganda: Persuasion in the Age of Unreason"
Why don’t human beings respond more consistently to logic and reason? Why do so many people vote and act against their self-interest? What is the difference between robust public debate and the engineering of consent? These are questions worth pondering on the eve of a national election.
Please join us as Professor Malinowitz examines the roots of contemporary propaganda in late 19th and early 20th century theories of “the crowd,” “the public,” and “the herd instinct,” as well as the pioneering of methods of mass manipulation.
When & Where
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Library Learning Center, Room 515
Refreshments will be served
For further information, please contact Gladys Schrynemakers (718-488-1001) or William Burgos (718-488-1094).
Note: This is part of the Campus-wide Faculty Forum program; it is not part of the English Department's own Faculty Forum: Works in Progress program.
The Richard L. Conolly College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Invites the LIU Brooklyn Campus Community to a Faculty Forum Presentation by Professor Harriet Malinowitz of the English Department
Title & Topic
"Propaganda: Persuasion in the Age of Unreason"
Why don’t human beings respond more consistently to logic and reason? Why do so many people vote and act against their self-interest? What is the difference between robust public debate and the engineering of consent? These are questions worth pondering on the eve of a national election.
Please join us as Professor Malinowitz examines the roots of contemporary propaganda in late 19th and early 20th century theories of “the crowd,” “the public,” and “the herd instinct,” as well as the pioneering of methods of mass manipulation.
When & Where
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Library Learning Center, Room 515
Refreshments will be served
For further information, please contact Gladys Schrynemakers (718-488-1001) or William Burgos (718-488-1094).
Note: This is part of the Campus-wide Faculty Forum program; it is not part of the English Department's own Faculty Forum: Works in Progress program.
MFA Reading Series Event
Cornelia Street Cafe Poetry Reading by MFA Candidates
When:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
6-8 PM
Where:
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (Manhattan)
A, C, E, B, D, F, or V to West 4th Street
1 to Sheridan Square
$7 for poetry & a drink
Readers:
Lilian Almendarez
Lewis Warsh
Gary Parrish
Giorgios Qure-Lacroix Retsinas
Uche Nduka
Christine Gans
Stephanie Gray
Jamey Jones
Danielle Moskowitz
Zahra Patterson
Jon L. Peacock
Click the image to see a larger version of the flyer for this event:
When:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
6-8 PM
Where:
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (Manhattan)
A, C, E, B, D, F, or V to West 4th Street
1 to Sheridan Square
$7 for poetry & a drink
Readers:
Lilian Almendarez
Lewis Warsh
Gary Parrish
Giorgios Qure-Lacroix Retsinas
Uche Nduka
Christine Gans
Stephanie Gray
Jamey Jones
Danielle Moskowitz
Zahra Patterson
Jon L. Peacock
Click the image to see a larger version of the flyer for this event:
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR DR. GERALD SILVEIRA
Please join us in commemorating the life of Gerald E. Silveira. Dean Silveira was a beloved teacher and respected colleague and a member of the Brooklyn Campus community for over 50 years. The special celebration will include a Fountain dedication, followed by performances in the Kumble Theater by the American Ballet Theater and other artists.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Gerald E. Silveira Fountain (located directly in front of the Campus entrance of Wellness, Recreation Center)
Please join us in commemorating the life of Gerald E. Silveira. Dean Silveira was a beloved teacher and respected colleague and a member of the Brooklyn Campus community for over 50 years. The special celebration will include a Fountain dedication, followed by performances in the Kumble Theater by the American Ballet Theater and other artists.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Gerald E. Silveira Fountain (located directly in front of the Campus entrance of Wellness, Recreation Center)
NEW DATE & TIME: Graduate Student Open House
This event was supposed to be Wednesday, September 17, but a conflict has arisen, so the new date/time is as follows...
Thursday, September 18th
5:15 – 6:45 pm
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor Lounge
Please come and meet the new students in the MA and MFA programs (16 this semester plus 1 readmit!), ask questions of the Chair, meet faculty, and generally eat pizza, drink beer, and celebrate the beginning of the new school year together. This event is informal and fun.
All graduate students, prospective graduate students, and faculty are welcome.
This event was supposed to be Wednesday, September 17, but a conflict has arisen, so the new date/time is as follows...
Thursday, September 18th
5:15 – 6:45 pm
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor Lounge
Please come and meet the new students in the MA and MFA programs (16 this semester plus 1 readmit!), ask questions of the Chair, meet faculty, and generally eat pizza, drink beer, and celebrate the beginning of the new school year together. This event is informal and fun.
All graduate students, prospective graduate students, and faculty are welcome.
Paumanok Lecture: Walter Mosley
The Department of English of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus & The MFA Program in Creative Writing cordially invite you to attend...
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK
the Annual Reading and Talk on American Literature and Culture.
This year's Lecture will be given by...
Walter Mosley
6-8 pm, Thursday, October 2, 2008
(Walter Mosley will be introduced by Jessica Hagedorn)
Kumble Theater, Humanities Building
Long Island University, Brooklyn
Flatbush Avenue Extension and Dekalb Avenue
For further information, call (718) 488-1050
The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are required.
RSVP: 718 488 1624
kumble@brooklyn.liu.edu
Co-sponsored by the Provost's Office, the English Department, the Creative Writing MFA program, and Voices of the Rainbow reading series, this event is supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation and Long Island University's John P. McGrath Fund
WALTER MOSLEY is the author of twenty-nine critically acclaimed books which have been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. Others in the series include A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty, and A Little Yellow Dog (both of which were New York Times bestsellers). Recently, Easy Rawlins has returned in Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Six Easy Pieces, Little Scarlet and Cinnamon Kiss, a 2006 New York Times bestseller.
Mosley has written five works of literary fiction: RL's Dream; Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned; Walkin' the Dog; The Man in My Basement and Fortunate Son; three works of science fiction, Blue Light, Futureland and The Wave; and four works of nonfiction, Workin' on the Chain Gang, What Next, Life out of Context, and This Year You Write Your Novel. Two movies have been made from his work: Devil in A Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington and Always Outnumbered, starring Laurence Fishburne.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Grammy Award, the O'Henry Award, the Sundance Institute Risktaker Award for his creative and activist efforts, and the Anisfield Wolf Award, an honor given to works that increase the appreciation and understanding of race in America.
Mosley created, along with The City College, a new Publishing Degree Program aimed at young urban residents. It is the only such program in the country. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in Brooklyn.
For further information, visit Walter Mosley's website.
The Department of English of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus & The MFA Program in Creative Writing cordially invite you to attend...
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK
the Annual Reading and Talk on American Literature and Culture.
This year's Lecture will be given by...
Walter Mosley
6-8 pm, Thursday, October 2, 2008
(Walter Mosley will be introduced by Jessica Hagedorn)
Kumble Theater, Humanities Building
Long Island University, Brooklyn
Flatbush Avenue Extension and Dekalb Avenue
For further information, call (718) 488-1050
The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are required.
RSVP: 718 488 1624
kumble@brooklyn.liu.edu
Co-sponsored by the Provost's Office, the English Department, the Creative Writing MFA program, and Voices of the Rainbow reading series, this event is supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation and Long Island University's John P. McGrath Fund
WALTER MOSLEY is the author of twenty-nine critically acclaimed books which have been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. Others in the series include A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty, and A Little Yellow Dog (both of which were New York Times bestsellers). Recently, Easy Rawlins has returned in Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Six Easy Pieces, Little Scarlet and Cinnamon Kiss, a 2006 New York Times bestseller.
Mosley has written five works of literary fiction: RL's Dream; Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned; Walkin' the Dog; The Man in My Basement and Fortunate Son; three works of science fiction, Blue Light, Futureland and The Wave; and four works of nonfiction, Workin' on the Chain Gang, What Next, Life out of Context, and This Year You Write Your Novel. Two movies have been made from his work: Devil in A Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington and Always Outnumbered, starring Laurence Fishburne.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Grammy Award, the O'Henry Award, the Sundance Institute Risktaker Award for his creative and activist efforts, and the Anisfield Wolf Award, an honor given to works that increase the appreciation and understanding of race in America.
Mosley created, along with The City College, a new Publishing Degree Program aimed at young urban residents. It is the only such program in the country. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in Brooklyn.
For further information, visit Walter Mosley's website.
Voices of the Rainbow: Fall 2008 Readings
The following are the readings scheduled for this semester. More detailed announcements will appear right before each event, but mark your calendars now!
Walter Mosley (Paumanok Lecture)
Thursday, October 2, 6PM, Kumble Theatre (Humanities Building, first floor)
Walter Mosley is one of America's best-loved writers. He is the author of such mysteries as Devil in a Blue Dress, Black Betty, Blonde Faith, and Fearless Jones. He will be making the annual Paumanok Lecture on American Literature.
Program co-sponsored by the Provost's Office, the English Department, the Creative Writing MFA program, and Voices of the Rainbow.
Gary Shteyngart & Marie-Elena John
Wednesday, October 8, Noon, Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Gary Shteyngart was born in the Soviet Union. He is the author of the satiric novels The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, chosen as one of the New York Times' best books of 2006.
Marie-Elena Jones, a native of Antigua, is author of the novel Unburnable, "a love story, a murder mystery, a multigenerational epic, and a reinterpretation of Black history."
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Thursday, November 6, Noon, Humanities Building, Room 206
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has been featured at over 275 performances worldwide including three seasons of HBO's award-winning Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam.
Charles Dickens' Holiday Story The Chimes, performed by David Houston
Wednesday, December 10, 6PM, Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Just in time for the Christmas season, we will be presenting a one-man performance of Charles Dickens' The Chimes, a witty, ironic and poignant short novel exposing how the rich think the poor ought to live. Performed by actor/author David Houston, who has appeared in leading roles in scores of plays and musicals.
The following are the readings scheduled for this semester. More detailed announcements will appear right before each event, but mark your calendars now!
Walter Mosley (Paumanok Lecture)
Thursday, October 2, 6PM, Kumble Theatre (Humanities Building, first floor)
Walter Mosley is one of America's best-loved writers. He is the author of such mysteries as Devil in a Blue Dress, Black Betty, Blonde Faith, and Fearless Jones. He will be making the annual Paumanok Lecture on American Literature.
Program co-sponsored by the Provost's Office, the English Department, the Creative Writing MFA program, and Voices of the Rainbow.
Gary Shteyngart & Marie-Elena John
Wednesday, October 8, Noon, Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Gary Shteyngart was born in the Soviet Union. He is the author of the satiric novels The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, chosen as one of the New York Times' best books of 2006.
Marie-Elena Jones, a native of Antigua, is author of the novel Unburnable, "a love story, a murder mystery, a multigenerational epic, and a reinterpretation of Black history."
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Thursday, November 6, Noon, Humanities Building, Room 206
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has been featured at over 275 performances worldwide including three seasons of HBO's award-winning Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam.
Charles Dickens' Holiday Story The Chimes, performed by David Houston
Wednesday, December 10, 6PM, Health Sciences Building, Room 119
Just in time for the Christmas season, we will be presenting a one-man performance of Charles Dickens' The Chimes, a witty, ironic and poignant short novel exposing how the rich think the poor ought to live. Performed by actor/author David Houston, who has appeared in leading roles in scores of plays and musicals.
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