M.F.A. Reading Series

The Creative Writing MFA Program inaugurated this series of student readings in 2006. A full list of past events in the series appears in the scrolling document below.

Watch The Longest Island for announcements about the next event in this series. You will also find MFA Reading Series events listed in the calendar on our LibraryThing venue page.

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Faculty Contacts

Department of English, Philosophy, & Languages

LIU Brooklyn

Humanities Building

Fourth Floor

718-488-1050
718-488-1053

Click here for current faculty office hours.

Department faculty contact information and brief bios appear in the scrolling document below.

Some members of the faculty have provided more extensive descriptions of their academic and professional activity in this campus faculty directory.

English Department Awards and Prizes

Each year, the English Department gives a number of awards and prizes to graduates of its BA, MA, and MFA programs. These are presented each May at the English Department Awards Ceremony.

Past winners are listed in the scrolling document below.

Patrick Horrigan: Book Trailer for Portraits at an Exhibition

Check out the book trailer for Professor Patrick Horrigan's new novel, Portraits at an Exhibition (Lethe Press).  Directed by Ash Mayfair and filmed in Brooklyn!

Click book cover to order.

Jake Matkov: New Poem in fields & a Reading in September

Jake Matkov’s three-part Virginia Woolf poem, "TO READ THIS POEM ONE MUST HAVE MYRIAD EYES" appears in the 4th issue of fields available here.

Jake will be reading in the HiFi Reading Series on Sept 2nd. 

From the event page:

“Help us kick off our Fall season with a reading guest-curated by author and translator Idra Novey (Exit, Civilian), featuring emerging writers Jake Matkov, Timothy Rhee, and Hilary Vaughn Dobel.”

Wednesday, Sept 2, 2015, 8pm
The HiFi Bar
169 Avenue A (between E 10th and E 11th Streets)
Manhattan

About The HiFi Reading Series:

“In the hopes of giving lesser-known voices a spotlight to read their work, The HiFi Reading series brings you a selection of ‘undiscovered’ writers, curated each month by an established author. The HiFi Reading Series is hosted and produced by Ryan Britt and Lena Valencia in partnership with the HiFi Bar.”

Voices of the Rainbow: Fall 2015 Schedule

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New Review of Barbara Henning's A Day Like Today

Jon Curley has reviewed Professor Barbara Henning's latest book, A Day Like Today, for the website Hyperallergic, which bills itself as "a forum for playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today."

Louis & John Parascandola Discuss Their Book on Coney Island (in Coney Island!)

Louis and John (Louis' brother) Parascandola will be discussing their book A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion on Saturday, August 8, at 5 pm. The talk will take place at the landmarked building housing the Coney Island Museum and Sideshows by the Seashore (the 10-in-1 "freak" show) located at 1208 Surf Ave. (and West 12th St.), just a block away from the Stillwell Avenue/Coney Island train stop. It is a great way to pass a summer Saturday if you are free.

Daphne Horton: Reading at Brooklyn Public Library Event for Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Stories Project

Daphne Horton, an alumna of the English Department’s undergraduate English major program, will read her story, “The Burning of Brooklyn,” at the the Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize readings on September 15th, 2015. The readings are being presented in partnership with Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection and will showcase half a dozen authors who were finalists for the Brooklyn Non-Fiction program since 2011. Brooklyn Collection archive of Brooklyn Non-fiction Prize Stories Project: The Brooklyn Collection will archive the Brooklyn stories presented at this event in their collection. The stories will be housed as an anthology of Brooklyn Non-fiction Prize stories. About the Brooklyn Collection: The Brooklyn Collection houses a rich assortment of Brooklyn-related research materials and archival documents.

When: Tuesday, September 15th.  From 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

Where: The Info Commons Lab Brooklyn Public Library which is located on the first floor of BPL’s Central Library at Grand Army Plaza.

MA in English

Our M.A. programs have been discontinued. No new students will be admitted to start beyond the Spring 2018 semester. We're keeping this page up, however, for the information of current students.

The M.A. in English gives students a choice of three areas of concentration:

   •  Literature

   •  Professional Writing

   •  Writing & Rhetoric

Teaching assistantships, graduate fellowships, and scholarships are available on a limited basis. All courses are taught by full-time faculty members and are offered on weekdays (in the late afternoon and evening), and occasionally on Saturdays.

Course descriptions by semester.

Course descriptions as they appear in the Graduate Bulletin.

Guidelines for taking MA courses as a non-matriculating student.

Thesis manual.

For more information, contact the English Department's graduate advisement coordinator, Jake Matkov.