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New Poems by Barbara Henning
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A Play by Yani Perez
Now in its 7th year, each Short Play Festival is created in NPTC’s Women’s Work LAB, in which a theme is given to new members in February and resident directors collectively dramaturge the scripts and bring them to production quality. The festival then provides the critical development tool of putting scripts on their feet fully rehearsed in a bare bones production.
Go here for ticket information, directions to the theatre, and a full schedule of performances.
Here's the description of Yani's play...
God Don’t Exist for Girls From Brooklyn
Global violence against girls is no surprise, but are we capable of confronting it in our own backyard? Two sisters from Brooklyn get a terrible lesson that far too many girls around the world already know.
Jamey Jones News & Call for Submissions
MFA alum Jamey Jones recently accepted a full time position as an English Instructor at Pensacola State College, where he is teaching composition and early American literature. In other news, Jamey was recently named to a three-year post as the Poet Laureate of Northwest Florida. An induction ceremony will take place in October, but he has already made his first official appearance at a recent open mic reading hosted by the Women's Studies Collective at the University of West Florida (UWF).
Jamey passes along a call for submissions to the first issue of Feminist Spaces, an online journal being inaugurated this year by the UWF Women's Studies Collective.
Bernard Schweizer Announces Inaugural Conference of the Society for Heresy Studies
Please check out the attached flyer for some highlights, including keynote addresses by James Wood, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, and Thomas J.J. Altizer.
Professor Schweizer will be presenting “Comedy as Heresy: The Curious Case of the Theology of Laughter.”
More information, including all abstracts and exact location.
Article by Nino Gulli on Time and Tense
NYCAAPSE 2014
Our Mutual Estate 2014
Reimagining the English Classroom
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Keynote Address
Tina Chang (Brooklyn Poet Laureate) -- "Sensual Hybrid: Poems for a New Generation"
Workshops
Teaching Cultural Studies: Adventures in Globalized Media
Jonathan Haynes, Professor of English, LIU
Suzane Thomas, Assistant Principal of Instruction, Cobble Hill School of American Studies
Teaching Writing
Lynn Hassan, Associate Writing Center Director, LIU
Tiffany DeJaynes, Research Teacher Writing Center Director, Millennium Brooklyn High School
Teaching Creative Writing
Felice Belle, Adjunct Assistant Professor English, LIU
Karen Bonnick, Assistant Principal of English, Manhattan Center for Science and Math
Teaching Nonfiction: Honoring and Engaging All Voices
Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English, LIU
Karen Andronica, Assistant Principal of English, Lehman High School
Teaching With Technology
Melissa Antinori, Assistant Director of Writing, LIU
Maria Moccia, English Teacher, Cobble Hill School of American Studies
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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
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
MEMBERS OF SIGMA TAU DELTA GRADUATING THIS ACADEMIC YEAR
Justin Gioia
Joanna Gonzalez
Keeley Ibrahim
Joshua Lamore
Jacob Matkov
Evan Thomas
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
The Elaine Spielberg Award
Yu June Lee
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
The Louis & Ann Parascandola Graduate Award
Daniel Owen
Jacob Matkov
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
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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