English Department

From the Chair

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

English Honors Program: Senior Honors Project Presentations and English Department Writing Awards Winners 2012

Family, Friends, and Faculty! Please join us: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 (8:45-11:30am, Shuster Hall, Room 336) for the English Honors Program Senior Project Presentations. Click here for the program for that morning. Click here for the EHP Spring 2012 Newsletter!

Also on May 2, following the EHP Senior Presentations, the Department's Annual Awards Ceremony will be held from noon-2pm in the Art Gallery. Please join us!

Esmeralda Santiago and Billy Collins Visit Lehman

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 and Professor Grace Bullaro

Guest Lecturer

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


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