| The department offers a Bachelor's of Arts degree in English and sponsors a trip to a major theater production each spring. STUDENT RESOURCES
ACTIVITIES
Poetry Readings:Each April, the department invites the campus to celebrate National poetry month at a campus poetry reading by a well-known poet. Past readings have been done by Billy Collins, Sander Zulauf, Gretna Wilkinson and Vanessa Hidary. In 2008, we welcome Laura Boss, a first prize winner in PSA’s Gordon Barber Poetry Contest. Founder and editor of Lips poetry magazine, her awards for her own poetry also include an ALTA (funded by the NEA) and three Fellowships in Creative Writing (Poetry) from NJSCA. Her six books of poetry include Reports from the Front (CCC) and Arms: New and Selected Poems (Guernica). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times. Poetry Readings:
Theatre Trips
Recent trips to Broadway have included productions of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, and John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. In addition, individual classes occasionally attend productions in New York or New Jersey theaters.
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INTERNATIONAL STUDY OPPORTUNITIESSummer 2008: The Fanjeaux Experience
Information about other college-sponsored international study programs will posted here as it becomes available. Let us know if you hear of a program before you see it here so we can share it with other faculty and students in the department. HONOR SOCIETYΣΤΔ - Sigma Tau Delta
Its purpose is to promote interest in literature and the English language and to foster the discipline of English in all its aspects, including creative and critical writing. Membership is available to English majors with a 3.2 GPA. COMING SOON
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- English Main Page
- Faculty
- B.A. in English
- English Minor
- Drama Minor
- English Courses
- Outcomes Assessment
- Course Rotation
- Sigma Tau Delta
- Capstone Seminar & Comprehensive Examination
- Internships and Co-ops
ENGLISH LINKS
Chair of English
Mary Lindroth, Ph.D.
Department of English
120 Bloomfield Avenue
Caldwell, NJ 07006
(973) 618-3000
Information
about the eighteen day program for students and faculty from American
Dominican Colleges to study and experience Southern France and Paris
will be posted here as soon as it becomes available.
The
Chi Zeta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta is an active chapter in the
national professional English honor society.