Annual Awards Ceremony (2014 Edition)

Please join us in congratulating this year's graduates and award winners! The English Department's Annual Awards Ceremony will be held as follows:

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

3:30-4:30 PM

Robert Spector Lounge

Fourth Floor

Humanities Building

GRADUATES FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEAR

May 2014

Samiah Aljahmi, BA

Shawn Bartee, MA
Chia Lun Chang, MFA

Justin Gioia, BA

Joanna Gonzalez, BA

Christine Grausso, MA

Dargreeny Jean, BA

Joshua Lamore, BA

Daniel Owen, MFA

Evan Thomas, MFA

Shereen Vincent, BA

January 2014

Anthony Eid, MA

Elena Fabiankovic, BA

Michael Grove, MFA

Tiani Kennedy, MFA

Julianne Lavalle, MFA

Steven Rice, MA

Shari Seraneau, MFA

Laurel Schumacher, MA

Tina Thompson, MFA

September 2013

Felice Belle, MFA

Keeley Ibrahim, BA

Jacob Matkov, MA

Carla Reneau, BA

Elizabeth Ruiz, BA

Nicole Sampson, MA

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MEMBERS OF SIGMA TAU DELTA GRADUATING THIS ACADEMIC YEAR

Justin Gioia
Joanna Gonzalez
Keeley Ibrahim
Joshua Lamore
Jacob Matkov
Evan Thomas

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AWARD WINNERS FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEAR

The Edward Edelman & Susanne Popper-Edelman English Essay Prizes

Best Essay in a Developmental Freshman Writing Course

Yu June Lee, "Yu June Lee and the Treacherous Four-Laned Road," Professor Morgan Schulz

Best Essay in a Sophomore Core Literature Course

Edward Greene, "'A Terrible Lump of Coal in the Burning Street': The Imagery of Protest," Professor Michael Bennett

Best Essay in an Upper-Division English Course

Sydney Boles, "Catch 22: Literacy Education and the Public in Jefferson High School," Professor Deborah Mutnick

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The Elaine Spielberg Award

Yu June Lee

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The Excellence in English Award

Undergraduate

Justin Gioia

Joanna Gonzalez

Keeley Ibrahim

Joshua Lamore

Graduate

Felice Belle

Christine Grausso

Michael Grove

Tiani Kennedy

Julianne Lavalle

Jacob Matkov

Daniel Owen

Laurel Schumacher

Evan Thomas

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The Louis &  Ann Parascandola Graduate Award

Daniel Owen

Jacob Matkov

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The Esther Hyneman Graduate Awards in Poetry & Fiction

Poetry Award: Chia Lun Chang Poetry Finalist: Jacob Matkov
Fiction Award: Daniel Owen

Fiction Finalist: Kimarlee Nguyen

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The Liang & Bernard Schweizer Graduate Thesis Award

Christine Grausso, "Magic Mirrors and Evil Queens: Power, Possibilities of Vision and a Phenomeno-logical Analysis of Queer Representation in Once Upon a Time."

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ENG 104 Introduction to Creative Writing End-of-Semester Class Reading & Celebration

Professor Felice Belle and the students of ENG 104 invite you to join
our fearless crew of creative writers for an evening of poetry, plays, short fiction and personal narratives.

Monday, May 5th , 6:30 PM

Spector Lounge
LIU Brooklyn English Department
4th Floor, Humanities Building

This event is open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served.

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MFA Reading Series & Hullabaloo Books Co-Host Reading By (& Book Party for) Doretta Lau

Sunday, May 4 

5pm 

Hullabaloo Books 

711a Franklin Avenue, at Park Place 

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

MFA Reading at KGB Bar

TWO different flyers for this event. Wow!

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LIU Brooklyn Learning Communities Program Expanding in Fall 2014: Will Include Two Cohorts With Sophomore Literature Classes

The two core literature classes are English 62 with Srividhya Swaminathan & English 61 with Wayne Berninger.

MFA Reading: This Academic Year's Graduates!

Friday, May 9, 2014

6-8 PM

Robert Spector Lounge

Humanities Building, Fourth Floor

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Josh Lamore = Valedictorian!

The English Department is happy to announce that Josh Lamore, an English major, will be this year's valedictorian.

Here's the official press release from the university.

Congratulations, Josh!



Updated 22 April 2014.

SWEET IS THE CITY -- a new play by Eduardo Leanez and Patrick Horrigan

You are invited to a reading of

SWEET IS THE CITY
by Eduardo Leanez and Patrick E. Horrigan (English Department, LIU Brooklyn).

A new play about 8.3 million New Yorkers and all the [bleep] they say.

Featuring Inma Heredia, Reggie Street, Mague Brewer, Erik Schjerven, Basil Horn, and Priyank Rastogi

The reading is part of "Actors with Accents," a variety show hosted by Eduardo Leanez.  Also on the program:  songs by John Sannuto (LIU Brooklyn) and monologues by Rosalie Purvis and Iris Rose.







Friday, May 2nd
7-10pm (performance to start at 8pm)
64 East 4th St. between 2nd and 3rd Ave., 3rd floor (Teatro Circulo)
FREE! (but donations are welcome)

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For more information, or to find out how to participate in an upcoming ACTORS WITH ACCENTS production, visit us on Facebook or e-mail actorswithaccents@aol.com.

Lewis Warsh & Peter Gizzi at the Poetry Project

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

8 PM

The Poetry Project
St. Mark's Church
131 E. 10th St.
New York City

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Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including A Place in the Sun (Spuyten Duyvil), Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (Granary), The Origin of the World (Creative Arts) and Touch of the Whip (Singing Horse). He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Long Island University (Brooklyn). A party for his most recent book, One Foot Out the Door: Collected Stories (Spuyten Duyvil) will follow the reading.

Peter Gizzi has published five books of poetry in addition to a number of limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His sixth book, In Defense of Nothing, New and Selected Poems came out in March 2014. Gizzi’s editing projects have included  o•blék: a journal of language arts, as well as several important books, such as The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer and My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (with Kevin Killion). Gizzi is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Aimee Herman Co-Teaching Workshop: "From Page to Stage"

As we announced earlier, MFA alumna Aimee Herman is working with Poetry Teachers NYC. In May, she will be co-teaching a workshop called "From Page to Stage." Three different creative writing/performance based classes will be offered. Each class will be held once a week on Sundays for three weeks, with a culminating performance of students' work during the fourth week.

Classes
Sundays, May 8, 11, 18th
2:30-4:30 PM

Performance
Saturday, May 24
6-9 PM

Shetler Studios
244 West 54th St.
12th Floor & Penthouse
Between Broadway & 8th Ave

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