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. […]
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 […]