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

Photo: Courtesy Bonnie Robinson
Laura Boss

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:

  • Laura Boss
    Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12 noon
    Academic Building Lecture Hall
  • Girl Talk: A Woman’s Poetry Reading in Celebration of Women’s History Month.
    Saturday, March 15th, 1 p.m.
    West Caldwell Public Library
    30 Clinton Road
    West Caldwell, NJ
    Sandra Duguid Maxine Susman and Laura Boss, among others

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.

  • Tuesday March 11 - The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Important Dates:

  • Monday, Feb. 25:
    prep session for English Comprehensive Exam, noon, 6203
  • Wednesday, April 2:
    Comprehensive Exam, 1-4, 6203.

Theatre Trips:

  • Tuesday March 11 - The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Poetry Readings:

  • Laura Boss
    Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12 noon
    Academic Building Lecture Hall
  • Girl Talk: A Woman’s Poetry Reading in Celebration of Women’s History Month.
    Saturday, March 15th, 1 p.m.
    West Caldwell Public Library
    30 Clinton Road
    West Caldwell, NJ
    Sandra Duguid Maxine Susman and Laura Boss, among others

 

INTERNATIONAL STUDY OPPORTUNITIES

Summer 2008: The Fanjeaux Experience

THE FANJEAUX EXPERIENCEInformation 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.

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 SOCIETY


ΣΤΔ - Sigma Tau Delta

The Chi Zeta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta is an active chapter in the national professional English honor society.

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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