Barbara Henning (Professor Emerita, English Department) is giving several readings over the next few months, as follows.
November 17, 2010. 7 pm.
Xavier University. Cincinnati (with Dan Bogan)
December 12, 2010. 3 pm.
DC Arts Center. Washington D.C. (with Rachel Levitsky)
January 22-March 5.
Flash Fiction Workshop. Poetry Center at U of Arizona, Tucson.
February 24, 2011. 3:30 pm.
San Francisco State University Poetry Center.
February 24, 2011. 7:30 pm.
Poetry Flash at Moe's in Berkeley, California.
March 12-13.
Poetry Workshop at the Book Festival, Poetry Center in Tucson.
March 24, 2011.
Seattle, Washington.
March 26, 2011. 7:30 pm.
Diva Center. Eugene, Oregon.
March 27, 2011.
Spare Room Series. Portland, Oregon.
See You on LIU Day!
Representatives from the English Department will be on hand at the LIU Day Open House for Prospective Students. Please come by and introduce yourself!
When & Where
Sunday, November 14, 2010
10 AM - 2 PM
Undergraduate: Find me (Wayne Berninger) at the English-Department table in the Paramount Gym. I can answer all your questions about majoring in English at LIU.
Graduate: Find Marilyn Boutwell at the English-Department table in the Humanities Building Lobby. Marilyn can answer all your questions about the Department's graduate programs.
Click here for further information.
Click here to RSVP.
Click this image to see larger version of flyer about LIU-Day events (undergraduate):
Click this image to see larger version of flyer about LIU-Day events (graduate):
When & Where
Sunday, November 14, 2010
10 AM - 2 PM
Undergraduate: Find me (Wayne Berninger) at the English-Department table in the Paramount Gym. I can answer all your questions about majoring in English at LIU.
Graduate: Find Marilyn Boutwell at the English-Department table in the Humanities Building Lobby. Marilyn can answer all your questions about the Department's graduate programs.
Click here for further information.
Click here to RSVP.
Click this image to see larger version of flyer about LIU-Day events (undergraduate):
Click this image to see larger version of flyer about LIU-Day events (graduate):
Launch Party for SHAMBOREE #5
Congratulations to Eric Alter (graduate student, English Department Creative-Writing MFA program) on the publication of Issue #5 of Shamboree , the literary/art magazine of Alter's creative organization, Staten Island Creative Hub.
You are invited to attend a launch party/reading for the issue.
When & Where
Saturday, November 6 • 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Everthing Goes Cafe
208 Bay Street
Staten Island, NY
All who attend get a free zine!
Writing and reading from:
Nichole LeFebvre
Thomas Fucaloro
Jamey Jones
Thomas Henry
William Teague
Open Mic after feature readers!
Zine art by Mike Gerlich
You are invited to attend a launch party/reading for the issue.
When & Where
Saturday, November 6 • 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Everthing Goes Cafe
208 Bay Street
Staten Island, NY
All who attend get a free zine!
Writing and reading from:
Nichole LeFebvre
Thomas Fucaloro
Jamey Jones
Thomas Henry
William Teague
Open Mic after feature readers!
Zine art by Mike Gerlich
Malinowitz to Co-Host Webinar
Professor Harriet Malinowitz (English Department) and Thomas Price (Scholarship Assistance Program) will co-host a webinar entitled "Creating an LGBTQA Student-Friendly Environment."
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Room: Humanities Building, Room 315
Webinar Description: It’s important that advising and other student affairs offices create a welcoming and inclusive environment for their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Allied student populations. This webinar will outline the important steps offices can take to serve LGBTQA students effectively in their day-to-day practice. Key terms, definitions and concepts will be presented. Participants will discuss the critical issues facing LGBTQA special populations such as low-income students, under-represented students, student-veterans, student-parents, and student-athletes. Participants will also learn about important regional and national resources including Safe Zone/Safe Space programs. Finally, the importance of understanding unique career advising issues that relate to LGBTQA students will be discussed.
Refreshments will be served!
Please R.S.V.P for this event by phone at 718-488-3405 or by e-mail to meseret.tzehaie@liu.edu.
Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Room: Humanities Building, Room 315
Webinar Description: It’s important that advising and other student affairs offices create a welcoming and inclusive environment for their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Allied student populations. This webinar will outline the important steps offices can take to serve LGBTQA students effectively in their day-to-day practice. Key terms, definitions and concepts will be presented. Participants will discuss the critical issues facing LGBTQA special populations such as low-income students, under-represented students, student-veterans, student-parents, and student-athletes. Participants will also learn about important regional and national resources including Safe Zone/Safe Space programs. Finally, the importance of understanding unique career advising issues that relate to LGBTQA students will be discussed.
Refreshments will be served!
Please R.S.V.P for this event by phone at 718-488-3405 or by e-mail to meseret.tzehaie@liu.edu.
Bernice Braid Honored
The English Department is happy to congratulate Bernice Braid (Professor Emerita in the English Department) on her being selected as a National Collegiate Honors Council Fellow. Formerly Dean of Academic and Instructional Resources, in which capacity she directed the Honors Program and the Freshman Orientation Program, among other things, Bernice is now the Director of the Core Seminar Program at the the Brooklyn Campus.
Click here to learn more about the National Collegiate Honors Council Fellows.
The following block quote is from the Brooklyn-Campus announcement:
We are proud to announce that one of our own, Professor Bernice Braid, has been selected as a member of the inaugural class of National Collegiate Honors Council Fellows. The NCHC is one of the nation¹s premier higher educational professional organizations, dedicated to honors teaching, learning, scholarship and leadership.Congratulations, Bernice!
The NCHC named Professor Braid after a rigorous process of nominations and careful consideration of her significant contributions to honors education at regional and national levels.
Ms. Braid [sic] is adviser to the Provost and professor emerita of English. Her specialties include cross-disciplinary learning, curriculum design, experiential learning and honors education. She has written and presented widely on "place as text," and she was the founder of Honors Semesters, Faculty Institutes and City as Text©.
Two Students from Our Creative-Writing MFA Program Presenting at Conference
Yolaine M. St. Fort (Creative-Writing MA alum) and Willie Perdomo (current MFA student) will be presenting at Turning Tides: A Symposium on Diasporic Literatures, a conference to be held at Fordham University on November 6, 2010.
Yolaine will be on a panel entitled Haiti: After the Earthquake, from 1:15-2:15, and Willie will participate in a panel called Puerto Rico: Creative Disobedience in New Nuyorican Writing from 2:15-3:15.
Fordham University, Lincoln Center
McNally Auditorium
140 W. 62nd Street, Law School Entrance (Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues)
Free and open to the public.
Go here for more information about the Turning Tides conference.
Yolaine will be on a panel entitled Haiti: After the Earthquake, from 1:15-2:15, and Willie will participate in a panel called Puerto Rico: Creative Disobedience in New Nuyorican Writing from 2:15-3:15.
Fordham University, Lincoln Center
McNally Auditorium
140 W. 62nd Street, Law School Entrance (Between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues)
Free and open to the public.
Go here for more information about the Turning Tides conference.
Writing Program Reading/Writing/Research Conversation
Please join us for the first of a series of Conversations (formerly known as the Brown Bag Lunch Series) on Reading, Writing, and Research.
Vocabulary Acquisition:
How I Teach My Students the Meanings of New Words
Professor Sharman Yoffie, LIU Writing Program ESL Coordinator
Thursday, November 4, 2010
1:30 -2:30 p.m.
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, 4th Floor
"What does __________ mean?"
"Well, that depends."
"On what?"
Why does new vocabulary matter so much when college students read challenging texts? Can we assume that our students know what certain words mean, words that seem obvious to us as instructors? How can we find out if students comprehend words or not? What should our approach be when they don’t know or misinterpret the meaning of a word?
Kindly RSVP to Deborah Mutnick at deborah.mutnick@liu.edu.
Vocabulary Acquisition:
How I Teach My Students the Meanings of New Words
Professor Sharman Yoffie, LIU Writing Program ESL Coordinator
Thursday, November 4, 2010
1:30 -2:30 p.m.
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, 4th Floor
"What does __________ mean?"
"Well, that depends."
"On what?"
Why does new vocabulary matter so much when college students read challenging texts? Can we assume that our students know what certain words mean, words that seem obvious to us as instructors? How can we find out if students comprehend words or not? What should our approach be when they don’t know or misinterpret the meaning of a word?
Kindly RSVP to Deborah Mutnick at deborah.mutnick@liu.edu.
Our Condolences to the Birenbaum Family
We are saddened to hear of the passing of William Birenbaum, a former Brooklyn-Campus Provost (in the late 1970s), who died October 4.
Read the Brooklyn Eagle's obituary here.
Read the Brooklyn Eagle's obituary here.
Brooklyn Campus Named to Military-Friendly Schools List
From Brooklyn Campus Public Relations press release:
Read more.
Scheduling flexibility, help with tuition costs and a broad array of on-campus support services for veterans have helped land Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus on G.I. Jobs magazine’s list of “Military Friendly Schools.”
The 2011 Military Friendly Schools list recognizes the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students.
Read more.
Book Launch Party for Bernard Schweizer
UPDATE: Photo added of Professor Schweizer reading at the party; scroll down.
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We recently congratulated Professor Bernard Schweizer (English Department) on the publication of his and Charles Thorne's contextual edition of Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier, which came out in September from Broadview Press.
Now we are pleased to announce that Professor Schweizer's next book, Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (Oxford University Press) will appear on November 4, 2010.
Congratulations (again), Bernard!
Abstract
While atheists have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight--people who hate God. In this revealing book, Bernard Schweizer looks at men and women who do not question God’s existence, but deny that He is merciful, competent, or good. Sifting through a wide range of literary and historical works, Schweizer finds that people hate God for a variety of reasons. Some are motivated by social injustice, human suffering, or natural catastrophes that God does not prevent. Some blame God for their personal tragedies. Schweizer concludes that, despite their blasphemous thoughts, these people tend to be creative and moral individuals, and include such literary lights as Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, and Philip Pullman. Schweizer shows that literature is a fertile ground for God haters. Many authors, who dare not voice their negative attitude to God openly, turn to fiction to give vent to it. Indeed, Schweizer provides many new and startling readings of literary masterpieces, highlighting the undercurrent of hatred for God.
Oxford University Press is hosting a book-launch party for Professor Schweizer, to which you are invited.
When & Where
Tuesday, November 9
6-8 pm
Lobby, Oxford University Press
198 Madison Avenue, Manhattan
Special Guest: Barbara Ehrenreich
RSVP by October 28: lemcointl@gmail.com.
Click image to see larger version of invitation.
Click image to see larger version of photo of Professor Schweizer reading from his new book at the launch party:
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We recently congratulated Professor Bernard Schweizer (English Department) on the publication of his and Charles Thorne's contextual edition of Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier, which came out in September from Broadview Press.
Now we are pleased to announce that Professor Schweizer's next book, Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (Oxford University Press) will appear on November 4, 2010.
Congratulations (again), Bernard!
Abstract
While atheists have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight--people who hate God. In this revealing book, Bernard Schweizer looks at men and women who do not question God’s existence, but deny that He is merciful, competent, or good. Sifting through a wide range of literary and historical works, Schweizer finds that people hate God for a variety of reasons. Some are motivated by social injustice, human suffering, or natural catastrophes that God does not prevent. Some blame God for their personal tragedies. Schweizer concludes that, despite their blasphemous thoughts, these people tend to be creative and moral individuals, and include such literary lights as Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, and Philip Pullman. Schweizer shows that literature is a fertile ground for God haters. Many authors, who dare not voice their negative attitude to God openly, turn to fiction to give vent to it. Indeed, Schweizer provides many new and startling readings of literary masterpieces, highlighting the undercurrent of hatred for God.
Oxford University Press is hosting a book-launch party for Professor Schweizer, to which you are invited.
When & Where
Tuesday, November 9
6-8 pm
Lobby, Oxford University Press
198 Madison Avenue, Manhattan
Special Guest: Barbara Ehrenreich
RSVP by October 28: lemcointl@gmail.com.
Click image to see larger version of invitation.
Click image to see larger version of photo of Professor Schweizer reading from his new book at the launch party:
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