From the Chair

books Lehman College's Department of English offers undergraduates a major with four distinct areas of specialization: Literature, Creative Writing, Professional Writing, and Early Childhood Education. In addition, the Department provides a parallel set of choices for a minor as well as many courses every semester for those students seeking a pleasurable introduction to literature written in English and for those wishing to fulfill distribution requirements. There are, in addition, two graduate programs, both containing concentrations in Literature or Composition Studies, leading to an M.A. in English. Whatever your preferences, Departmental advisers are available to help students choose the program most appropriate for them.
—Dr. Grace Russo Bullaro

News and Announcements

mario Dr. Mario DiGangi receives 2012 Lehman College Distinguished Scholarship Award
Since joining the English Department in 1998, Mario DiGangi has published two monographs and over a dozen articles, and has edited editions of three Shakespeare plays (The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream). He has remained at the forefront of the ever-changing world of Shakespeare scholarship, while at the same time broadening his perspective to include questions of queer theory and class distinctions, and extending his chronological range into the mid-seventeenth century. These strengths are all evident in the book he published in 2011, Sexual Types, which examines six different character types as they appear in early modern English drama: the sodomite, the lesbian, the narcissistic courtier, the citizen wife, the bawd, and the court favorite.
For a full list of 2012 Arts and Humanities Award winners, click here.

Esmeralda Santiago and Billy Collins Visit Lehman

santiago billy Acclaimed author Esmeralda Santiago was the Lehman Lecture keynote speaker on March 21, 2012. Several classes at Lehman read Ms. Santiago's memoir When I Was Puerto Rican in anticipation of her talk.
On March 29 a crowd of 350 attendees kicked off National Poetry Month with former U.S. Poet Laureate and Distinguished Professor Billy Collins. Professor Collins read with Lehman Professors Salita Bryant, George Greene and Jason Koo. Click here for the Santiago podcast, video of Prof. Collins reading, and pictures from both events.

Sondra Perl Leads the Holocaust Educators Network

Sondra Perl, acclaimed teacher, author and professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York scrutinizes the difficult subject matter of the Holocaust at www.thememoriallibrary.org. The Holocaust Educators Network (HEN) was created in 2006 by Sondra Perl and is a “must see” for all educators and those interested in social justice in their classroom, community and nation. Professor Perl is the author of On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate, Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Writing and Stepping On My Brother's Head and Other Secrets Your English Professor Never Told You: A College Reader.

Spotlight on Research

Professor Walter Blanco Professor Paula Loscocco Professor Salita Bryant Professor Tyler Schmidt Professor Grace Bullaro Professor Walter Blanco, Professor Paula Loscocco, Professor Salita Bryant, Professor Tyler Schmidt and Professor Grace Bullaro

Guest Lecturer

Guest Lecturer: Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Diaz Visits Lehman, Fall 2010 Read more
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