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Winter Courses

EGL 121: Global Film Traditions with instrutor Roya Liu. Love the 2023 Oscar winner Everything Everywhere all at once? Curious about the rich film traditions behind this cross-cultural masterpiece? This course will explore the ground breaking film and the flobal fims that it draws inspiration from. You'll learn how successful films engage with flobal film traditions and acquire new tools to incorporate these traditions into your own viewing or creative process. This course will run Winter 2025 January 7 through January 24 and satisfies the SBC requirements GLO and HUM.EGL 140: Shakespeare in Performance. Instructor Anna Zarra Aldich. While the works of William Shakespeare are often read as plays, they are meant to be preformed. In this course we will focus not just on the text of Shakespeare's plays but how these words hav ebeen reimagined through performace. This course will ask students to think about how elements of performance interact with and inform the words on the page, We will watch full productions and compare performances of key scenes and monologues directed and performed by a diverse group of artists. Students will complete discussion posts, short response papers and craft a creative final assignment describing their own vision for a performance of one of the plays. this course may include works such as Titus Andonicus, Richard III, King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing. This course will run during the Winter 2025 term beginning January 7 through January 24. THR 103: Introduction the Theatre Design, 3 credits. An introduction to design and technology for theatrical performances. Through the lens of design and technology, this course will examine genres, innovations, culture context, and the creative process as it applies to design and technology and its integral relationship with all areas of production. This course is an essential foundational step for all stdents interested in the field of theatre arts or live performances.

If you have any difficulty registering for the course, please contact the Department of English by calling 631-632-7413 or by emailing margaret.hanley@stonybrook.edu!

Choosing English

 

Dr. Scheckel's Class looking at pieces of artwork while reviewing

An English degree prepares students to be careful and passionate readers, critical and creative thinkers, and highly effective researchers and communicators. Students are encouraged to ask their own questions, to become conscious of their own assumptions, and to take responsibility for their acts of interpretation and expression. The degree prepares students to live in a complex world and to become agents of change in their personal, professional and communal lives.

FALL 2024 EVENTS 

 

Crazy Fish Sing Book Talk happening Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 5pm in the Poetry Center (2001 Humanities Building) featuring authors Simone Brioni, Peter Bruno and Loredana Polezzi

English Faculty Lecture by Elyse Graham on her newest book- Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Wednesday October 30, 2024 4:30 PM in 1008 Humanities Building. Also featuring Respondent Michael Rubenstein Director of the Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of English  

 

Poetry Reading with Rowen Riccardo Phillips of his newest work: Silver. Thursday November 14, 2024 at 5pm in the Poetry Center (2001 Humanities).

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Welcoming New Faculty

We’re really delighted to welcome three new faculty to the Department! Read more about our Newest Faculty
 Island Roots, Farrin Dreams. Caribbean Immigrants' Narratives of the Journey. Neisha Terry, PhD and Tennecia Dacass, PhD

The VocalizED Identity Crafting and Exploration Research Lab

VocalizED is actually the first word in VOICE because, for me, my interest has always been to amplify immigrant narratives, so when I began wondering what I really wanted coming from it, It led to VocalizED Identity Crafting and Exploration.  Read more about VocalizED
 

 
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Building the Bridge: Connecting High School Teachers with SBU English Professors

Secondary school  teachers from across Long Island and SBU English professors spent time listening to & learning from each other in an open round table in pursuit of a common goal: understanding where students are, what they need, and how the teaching of English can contribute to the social, emotional, and intellectual growth of students, not only in the classroom but in life. Read more about the Building Bridges Discussion

English Major

English Teacher Education

Master of Arts in English

Doctor of Philosophy in English

 

English Minor

Film & Screen Studies Minor

Theatre Arts Minor

 

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