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, […]
This past July, I spoke with my former student Nicole Follenius. Nicole was an English major at Stony Brook, and since earning her Master of Arts in Teaching at Stony Brook in 2016, she has been teaching at the Academy for Conservation and the Environment, a small public high school in Canarsie, Brooklyn. I’ve been […]
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 […]
Kaha Mohamed Aden’s collection of short stories, Fra-intendimenti, was published in 2010 by Nottetempo. As Alessandra Marino points out, this title “introduces the central theme of the precariousness of intercultural communication as a border practice. The deconstruction of the Italian word fraintendimenti, literally meaning ‘misunderstandings’, refers both to the migrants’ condition of living in-between (fra) […]
In case you missed it, Stony Brook English and Sustainability Professor Heidi Hutner published this essay last month in Ms. Magazine. Source: Earth Day, Ecofeminism and Racial Injustice in the Year of the Plague, COVID-19 – Ms. Magazine Earth Day, Ecofeminism and Racial Injustice in the Year of the Plague, COVID-19 4/22/2020 by Heidi Hutner […]
With Monday’s announcement from the Chancellor of the California-State University system, it seems increasingly likely that SUNY will similarly be delivering instruction almost entirely online in Fall 2020. As we collectively prepare our courses for this contingency, if only the English Department had its own virtual forum for discussing and sharing ideas and resources for […]