Faculty Mentors for English Majors (undergrad)

This list was last updated on May 20, 2013.

Prior to registration each semester, you should meet with Wayne Berninger, the English Department’s Undergraduate Advisor. Make your own apppointment at http://wayneberninger.setster.com.

For help with all other aspects of your academic career, please meet with your Academic Mentor, as follows.

• student (concentration) -- mentor
• Samiah Aljahmi (WR) -- Srividhya Swaminathan
• Sarai Arroyo (CW) -- John High
• Jesenia Ayala (WR) -- Deborah Mutnick
• Barrington Boothe (WR) -- Thomas Peele
• Stephen Cadavillo (Lit) -- Patrick Horrigan
• Alexa Carter-Rodriguez (CW) -- John High
• Melissa Clermont (Lit) -- Donald McCrary
• Kathryn Dure  (WR) -- Patricia Stephens
• Laquesha Ekowo (CW) -- John High
• Elena Fabiankovic (WR) -- Harriet Malinowitz
• Justin Gioia (Lit) -- Leah Dilworth
• Joanna Gonzalez (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Ivelaw Goodridge (Lit) -- Carol Allen
• Robyn Heckstall (CW) -- John High
• Jeri Helms (WR) -- John Killoran
• Daphne Horton (Lit) -- Louis Parascandola
• Keeley Ibrahim (CW) -- John High
• Joy Jackson (WR) -- Michael Bokor
• Dargreeny Jean (Lit) --  Michael Bennett
• Daisey Jefferson (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Chason Kim (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Joshua Lamore (WR) -- Michael Bokor
• Mary McDaniel (Lit) -- Patrick Horrigan
• Natalie Mamelko (CW) -- John High
• Jackae Manns (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Brianna Melero (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Bryhana Moore (CW) -- John High
• Muzahid ("Jahid") Mowla (WR) -- Patricia Stephens
• Stephanie Munoz (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Rose Nash (Lit) -- Michael Bennett
• Anne Marie Nelson-Ferguson (WR) -- John Killoran
• Phyllis Noel (WR) -- John Killoran
• Vincent Ortiz (Lit) -- Jonathan Haynes
• Brittany Rader  (WR) -- Thomas Peele
• Carla Reneau (Lit) -- Sealy Gilles
• Rebecca Rimple (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Matthew Romagnoli (CW) -- John High
• Daniel Rosenberg (CW) -- Lewis Warsh
• Elizabeth Ruiz (CW) -- Sealy Gilles
• Roksolana Sheverack (Lit) -- Leah Dilworth
• Chardonnay Smith (WR) -- Donald McCrary
• Aaron Stewart (CW) -- John High
• Shannon Thomas (WR) -- Thomas Peele
• Shereen Vincent (W;R) -- Deborah Mutnick

A Reading by Patrick Horrigan

ACTORS WITH ACCENTS

Everybody has an accent. What’s yours?

an evening of performance and conversation
featuring a reading by Patrick E. Horrigan (Dept. of English, LIU Brooklyn)

Thursday, May 16, 2013 @ 7:30pm
Teatro Soy, 4111 Broadway, 2nd floor bet. 173rd and 174th Sts. in Manhattan

Hosted by Eduardo Leanez, featuring monologues, scenes, songs, and readings by
Emily Gleeson, Inma Heredia, Patrick E. Horrigan, Eduardo Leanez, Mauricio Pita,
Ricardo San Miguel, and Erik Schjerven.

Admission: $10 suggested donation
Wine reception to follow the performance.

For more information, contact actorswithaccents@aol.com.

Films & Readings by Stephanie Gray

Saturday, May 11, 8pm
At: Millennium Film Workshop, 66 E 4th St (bet Bowery & 2nd Ave)

"Super 8 Live & in Person with Katrina del Mar & Stephanie Gray: Portraits of People & Places"
An evening of super 8 works, screened on real film by artists Katrina del Mar & Stephanie Gray. Whether through an iconography of the city, queerness, or grrl culture, both show an attention to photographic detail of a unique type that can only be captured with the intimacy of super 8, whether black/none, color, handprocessed or edited in camera. Expect images of lesbian icons (both real & fictional), 90s grrl culture, mysterious portraits of the city and urban folk, and an overall eye for the hidden beauty of people and places that often go unseen. (Gray will present first, then intermission, then del Mar.)

Millennium website: http://millenniumfilm.org/category/screenings/upcoming/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/294381620695227/?ref=22
Admission: $8/$5 members (by contribution)

Program:
"Katrina del Mar: Super 8 Portraits + Raw Reels"
del Mar will show a selection of a recent super 8 portraits series including an urban surfer, a dyke motorcycle racer, lesbian writer Eileen Myles, & raw reels, some rarely seen, of her cult fave grrl gang movies of the late 90s.
"Simon: Portrait of an Urban Surfer" (6 min, b&w, sound) Simon plays upright bass and surfs at Rockaway Beach.
"Kara: Portrait of a Motorcycle Racer" (3 min, b&w, sound) Kara races a vintage triumph motorcycle on a flat track in upstate New York.
"Eileen: Portrait of a Writer" (3 min, b&w, sound) Poet-novelist Eileen Myles writes and reads from a tiny notebook one late summer day in Wellfleet, Mass.
"Raw Reels" (approx 25 min, b&w/color, no sound) When shooting Gang Girls 2000 in 1999, del Mar shot a roughly ten-to-one ratio of what wound up in the 25 minute final film. A reel or two will be chosen at random from the other 3.5 hours worth of pure late-90’s eye candy: the hottest girls of the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, pretending to be in our own version of Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!

"Stephanie Gray: Queer Pop Culturing + City Portraits"
Filmmaker-poet Gray will show a selection of urban portraits that show the puzzling unknown of the city including the now closed Magic Shoes in the Village + mysterious iconography of the city. She will show a selection of her queer portraits (some subjective) of pop culture icons such as Kristy McNichol, Joan of Arc and Laverne & Shirley. Some films will be accompanied by live reading / experimental soundtracks.
"Magic Couldn’t Save Magic Shoes" (7 min, color/b&w, 2011) Magic closed in ‘08 after being in biz since ‘79. No one did handwritten labels like them. When I finally had extra money to buy more Converse, which is mostly all I wear, thinking they’d still be around, even after I filmed it, it was gone. I shot this in Magic’s last week.
"Satanic Bible on Interlibrary Loan" (9 min, b/w, 2011) The title is a true situation that occurred when I was 15. I was an ardent metal head as a teen. A little while back, I was asked to write a poem for a poetry mag issue with the theme of the occult. The words and then the images, came together, and it all makes sense.
"Kristy" (7 min, handprocessed b/w, sound, 2003) Digging deep to find Kristy, the only working class girl at a girls’ summer camp in cult classic Little Darlings A faint recognizable 80s hit song is played with skips at the slowest speed. (She’s out now, you know, right?)
"Dear Joan" (3 min handprocessed b/w, live narration, 1999) A film letter to this heroine as the filmmaker laments the lack of public knowledge of Joan's real identity, ending in a hissyfit at the library.
"Never Heard the Word Impossible" (7 min, sound, b/w, 2007) This work uses images from Laverne & Shirley remixed through video layers. What did the L really stand for? All sound is distorted from the theme song.
"I Can’t Stop Thinking About Eileen Myles’ School of Fish Poem" (3 min, color, live narration, 2002) The filmmaker keeps hearing lines from the poem. The images are inspired visual thoughts of Eileen's poem.
+ one surprise super recent 3 min film!

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Tuesday, May 14, 7:30

Triptych presents
a special 3-1 =
last reading of the season

Reading + super 8 film screening
featuring:
STEPHANIE GRAY
&&&&&&&&&&&
JONAS MEKAS

At: Envoy Enterprises
(http://envoyenterprises.com/)
87 Rivington (bet Orchard & Ludlow)

Triptych: http://triptychreadings.tumblr.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/501303579934660/

NYCAAPSE Conference 2013

The New York City Association of Assistant Principals Supervision – English (NYCAAPSE) and LIU Brooklyn’s English Department are pleased to announce

GETTING THERE AND STAYING THERE
Bridging the Gap Between High School and College and Careers

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

8:00 AM to 3:00 PM

LIU personnel who wish to attend must register.
Contact Deborah Mutnick for the registration form.

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Annual Awards Ceremony!

The English Department will hold its annual awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 8, from 4-5 PM, in the Robert Spector Lounge on the 4th Floor of the Humanities Building. 

The faculty will present awards to undergraduate and graduate students including the Excellence in English Award, the Edward Edelman & Susanne Popper-Edelman English Essay Prizes, the Esther Hyneman Graduate Awards in Creative Writing, the Henning Award, the Parascondola Award, and the Schweizer Award. New Sigma Tau Delta inductees will also be announced.

Please join us to celebrate our award winners, whose names will be added to this post after the ceremony.

UPDATED May 13, 2013

List of winners:

Sigma Tau Delta inductees

Victoria Abolencia
Gabrielle Betancourt
Samantha D'Acunto
Alanna Dawkins
Andrani Foster
Elizabeth Hernandez
Keeley Ibrahim
Donald Chase Melvin
Imani Nasir
Charlene Thelemaque
Krystal Walcott

Excellence in English Award, graduate

Alicia Berbenick
Patia Braithwaite
Constance Gough
Jon Jenkins
Elspeth Macdonald
Asja Parrish
Kevin Reyes
Lisa Rogal
Sarah Wallen

Excellence in English award, undergraduate

Andrani Foster
Daphne Horton
Keeley Ibrahim
Natalie Mamelko
Sarah Reynolds

Elaine Spielberg Award

Lakishia Brown

Louis & Ann Parascandola Graduate Award

Felice Belle
Lisa Rogal

Edward Edelman & Suzanne Popper-Edelman English Essay Prizes

Freshman Composition (English 14)

Jonathan McCarthy Assavero, "Change of Location, Change of Perspective," Professor Andrea Libin

Freshman Composition (English 16)

Sandy Mohsen, "The Educational System and ESL Students," Professor Thomas Peele

Core Literature (English 60s)

Kerby Anorjuste, "The Guy Code," Professor Jonathan Haynes

Upper Division

Marnelle Dorvil, "Marriage and Money: Contrasting Forces," Professor Maria McGarrity

The Esther Hyneman Awards

Fiction: Tiani Kennedy
Poetry: Daniel Owen



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MFA Reading Series Event: Students Finishing This Semester

A celebratory reading by all MFA  students graduating in May 2013.

Wednesday, May 8, 6-8PM
Robert Spector Lounge, English Department
Humanities Building, Fourth Floor

Reading:

Elspeth Macdonald
Lisa Rogal
Marita Downes
Asja Parrish
Felice Belle
Joey Infante
Sarah Anne Wallen.

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Poetry Reading: Barbara Henning & Tony Iantosca (with Kimberly Lyons)

6BC Botanical Garden presents poetry by Barbara Henning (Professor Emerita, English), Kimberly Lyons, and Tony Iantosca (Adjunct Professor, English).

Sunday, May 12, 2013, 3pm

More info.

Attention English Majors in Honors Program

If you are an English major who also happens to be a student in the Honors Program, please be aware that the following Honors electives being offered in Fall 2013 can be substituted for LITERATURE course(s) in your major program. Discuss with Wayne Berninger before you register.

• HHE 187, Italian Women, Professor Louis Parascandola
• HHE 188, Conflicted Youth, Professor Srividhya Swaminathan.

Poetry Reading: Lewis Warsh with Brenda Coultas

Professor Lewis Warsh (English Department / MFA Director) will be reading with Brenda Coultas, former Visiting Writer at LIU Brooklyn.

Thursday, May 9, 8 PMwith music by Dan Veksler

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Africana Studies / Gender Studies Event: A Talk by Patrik-Ian Polk