Thinking back to my freshman year, two years ago, it all seems a bit like a dream. Wide-eyed at the sheer size of the campus, I struggled even to locate my classes. Jump forward six months to March 2020, and a slightly more adjusted me was sent home for the rest of the semester, along […]
Being a master’s student during the pandemic has proven to be more difficult than I could have anticipated but not for the reasons that you may imagine. Not having had a single semester of my master’s in person made me yearn for the many semesters of my undergrad nestled in the Humanities Atrium, the North […]
In spring 2021, students in English 309 studied the history and literature of World War I. A few students elected to fulfill Stony Brook’s experiential learning requirement (EXP+) by visiting, researching, and writing about a WWI memorial on Long Island or in NYC. In the second of these posts, English major Joshua Balan writes about […]
In spring 2021, students in English 309 studied the history and literature of World War I. A few students elected to fulfill Stony Brook’s experiential learning requirement (EXP+) by visiting, researching, and writing about a WWI memorial on Long Island. In the first of these posts, English major Jun-Yi Wu writes about a Copiague memorial. […]
In an increasingly tenuous academic job market, an applicant to a community college should heed this golden rule: Know the culture. And then tailor your application and interview to it. While this advice rings sound for any job to which one might apply, it is especially crucial for community colleges, where the best candidates know […]
Near the conclusion of her inspiring virtual Run Run Shaw lecture at the Humanities Institute on “Revolutionizing Learning,” Distinguished Professor Cathy N. Davidson (CUNY), asked the Zoom attendees to post in Chat their favorite class activities for “empowering all students.” This 90-second activity was itself an example of transforming attendees into participants through active learning. […]
This summer I had the real pleasure of working as a Research Assistant on Dr. Newman’s project, The High School Canon: A Readers’ History (seriously, if you want to peek into a well-organized, multi-faceted project speaking to multiple audiences, work with Dr. Newman). As we were focusing on how high school students, alumni, and teachers remember, […]
Inspiring post from Stony Brook Senior English Education student Sean McDonaugh: This fall I will be known as Mr. McDonaugh. I will be leaving my cozy seat in which I have sat among students for the past 15 years, and I will occupy the position at the front of the classroom, where I will be […]
The English Department and Graduate English Society support Black Lives Matter and the ongoing protests against systematic and institutional racism, sparked by the murders of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery and others. As teachers and scholars, we welcome the urgent, amplified attention to issues of equity and social justice. And […]
Jesse Curran graduated from our doctoral program in 2012; her dissertation, “From Mourning to Meditation, Theorizing Ecopoetics, Thinking Ecology,” directed by Susan Scheckel, is a brilliantly contemporary re-reading of the works of Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson. In addition to teaching in the First Year Experience program at SUNY Old Westbury, she’s a yoga […]