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) […]