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If you’d like some 'Dickens To-Go,' do check out the latest installment of this series by Prof. Star: 'Conscience is a dreadful [and slippery] thing.’ #sfsuenglish #sfsu #charlesdickens https://youtu.be/3x7RF_MVZIo

Sending lots of luck to our resident TV star, Professor Jim Gilligan! #sfsu #sfsuenglish #jeopardy

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. -T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"... Happy New Year from all of us in the English Department! #sfsuenglish #HappyNewYear2021 Image by engin_akyurt from Pixabay

Please tune in to Jeopardy! on Friday, January 8th to watch Assistant Professor Jim Gilligan compete! Appearing on Jeopardy! has always been one of Professor Gilligan’s lifelong dreams, and now it’s come true. It is, however, bittersweethis episode was Alex Trebek’s very last. Since Jeopardy! is syndicated, it airs on different stations at different times of day throughout the country. If you don’t know where to watch Jeopardy!, you can find out online: https://www.jeopardy....com/watch You’ll also need access to live television. Current episodes of Jeopardy! are not available for streaming on any platform. #sfsuenglish #jeopardy #sfsu

We’re looking forward to seeing our students, alumni, and faculty at the much-awaited MA English Virtual conference! Congratulations to our presenters! Click on the link below for the schedule, a list of presenters, and inspiring messages from our faculty! https://sites.google.com/view/englishgradconference/home... #sfsu #sfsuenglish #graduatestudies #sfsualumi #congraulations

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Our career panel was amazing! Thank you soooo much to alums Emily Ma, Tanashati Anderson, Angie Garcia, Stephanee Whiteley, and Robert Boileau for sharing your wisdom and experiences with us! Thank you to our program coordinators and staff for your hard work in planning. And a big thanks to our students for making the event a sucess with your engaging questions. We even got a few book recommendations. Can't wait to do it again! . #sfsu #sfsuenglish #sfstate #sfstateenglish #englishmajor #careergoals #careerpath #careerpanel #alumni #sfsualumni

In an effort to make a positive lasting impact Associated Students are hosting a Latinx Student Open Forum to gather insight on student's perspectives regarding the pandemic, student organizations, academia, and the lack of a Latinx Student Unity Center. Please join!

Alumni news alert! We’re delighted to share that Prof. Scott Oldenburg, from the MA Literature Class of ‘99, just published his new work, A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London. Prof. Oldenburg is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and author of Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England. We’re looking forward to reading his new work! http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-087...15-3.html Penn State University Press #sfstateenglish #newbook #poetry

We need some of our amazing SFSU students to help with the 2021 volume of the Sutro Review. If you’re interested in writing/editing we’d love your help! Open to graduate and undergrad students in a relevant major. And there’s a stipend! . For info contact: [email protected] and check out the 2020 volume here: https://www.sutroreview.com . Sutro Review #sfsu #sfstate #sfsuenglish #sfstateenglish #editing #editor #essaywriting #essay #sutroreview #sutro

Our Fall 2020 Career Panel takes place on Wednesday October 28th at 5:30 pm. Help us welcome back five alumni from our four different degree concentrations who will share their professional experiences. Join us and learn about the diverse career paths SFSU English grads pursue. . For more info and a Zoom link contact [email protected] . #sfsu #sfstate #sfsuenglish #sfstateenglish #career #careergoals #careerpanel #englishmajors #english

Our Amazing Department Chair Dr. Gitanjali Shahani spoke with Dr. Jennifer Park of University of North Carolina Greensboro for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Critical Race Conversation series. Drs. Shahani and Park discussed food and race as part of the Critical Race series, in association with Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures. Thank you to Dr. Shahani and Dr. Park for the fascinating conversation and the knowledge shared! Folger Shakespeare Library UNC Greensboro #FolgerCRC #BeforeFarmToTable https://youtu.be/ya4t547iMMg

The California State University recently recognized MA Lit student Yuri Madenokoji for her academic excellence and focus on social justice. She’s one of 23 CSU students to receive the CSU Trustee Award for Outstanding Achievement, the highest academic honor given annually by the #CSU to students from each campus. Thank you for being a part of our department and congratulations Yuri! Read more about Yuri’s journey here: https://news.sfsu.edu//grad-student-who-triumphed-over-tra #sfsu #sfsuenglish #sfstate #sfstateenglish #literature #literaturebasedlearning #socialjustice #reading #teacher #educator #gradstudent #scholar

TWITTER TAKE OVER! Linguistics Professor Jenny Lederer will take over the English Department Twitter account during the next presidential debate. Assuming the debate continues as planned, Prof. Lederer will live tweet the event from an expert linguist’s point of view. Tune in and learn about the language used by each candidate in real time. It will be super interesting, we promise. Prof. Lederer knows soooo much about language! October 15th, 6pm Twitter handle: @SFSUEnglis...h . #sfsu #sfsuenglish #sfstate #sfstateenglish #twittertakeover #languages #linguistics #debates2020 #vote See more

Prof. Gilligan from our English Education program recently published his work on using proleptic autobiographya type of speculative discourseas a way to help pre-service teachers envision themselves as professional educators. Congratulations Prof. Gilligan and thank you for continuing to enrich our department! Subscribe and read the full article here: https://library.ncte.org/journals/ee/issues/v53-1 . #sfsu #sfstate #sfsuenglish #sfstateenglish #englisheducation #englishedu #englisheducationprogram #professor #academia #highereducation

It’s #internaltionalcoffeeday! We know it’s a little late in the day for coffee but you should still check out the piece written by our amazing Department Chair Dr. Gitanjali Shahani Let’s Get Coffee: Thoughts for International Coffee Day. Published by Cornell University Press, the work delves into the significance of coffee, how it’s woven into the fabric of human history, and how it has changed in a post-COVID era. Fair warning, it will make you want to brew a pot. . Check it out here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/lets-get-coffee-thoug/ . #sfsu #sfstate #sfstateenglish #sfsuenglish #coffee #coffeelover #cornelluniversitypress

Happy Friday! We miss being in the classroom with our students so we’ve been looking at pictures from the days before Zoom. Here’s one of our favorites. Professional Writing & Rhetoric Prof. Bridget Gelms interacting with students in her Professional Writing for Digital Audiences class. #sfsu #sfstate #sfsuenglish #sfstateenglish #professor #technicalwriting #writing #college #digitalwriting #digitalaudience

Thinking about graduate school English majors? If so, be sure to attend the application workshop Oct. 1st. You’ll learn the ins-and-outs of the process and it’s co-led by Jennifer Arin who never fails to have a smile and is super knowledgeable about graduate school applications. . For a Zoom link and more info, contact Jennifer Arin ([email protected]) or Sarah Nelson ([email protected]). . #sfsu #sfsuenglish #sfstateenglish #highereducation #highered #gradschool #gradschoolproblems #gradschoolapps #lettersofrecommendation #englishmajor

Hey SFSU students! Join The SFSU Safe Zone Program for their open campus student safe zone ally training. The training will be held virtually this semester on Friday, October 23, 2020 from 1 to 4 pm. Now more than ever we want to encourage our students to be trained on issues of LGBTQ+ sensitivity, queer allyship and racial justice, and how to support each other during incredibly stressful and sometimes harmful times. Please, please, please attend and help make our community safer and more welcoming for all! . Email Rick Nizzardini ([email protected]) to register. . #SFSU #SFSUEnglish #SFStateenglish #safezone #lgbtq #ally #allyship #blacklivesmatter #racialjustice #educateyourself #vote

We ran across these pictures recently and had to share them. Prof. Julie Paulson, Department Chair Gitanjali Shahani, and some of our literature students had the opportunity to study Shakespeare’s First Folio @sutrolibrary a few years ago. The First Folio was printed in 1623 and contains 36 of Shakespeare’s plays. It’s amazing that SFSU’s Sutro Library holds one of only 235 copies of this invaluable treasure! . #shakespeare #firstfolio #literature #sfsu #sfsuenglish #sfstate #sfstateenglish #book #reading #author #booknerd

Vera Claire (pictured with husband Sam), a 2018 graduate of our MA TESOL Program, was featured in a May 8, 2020 article in Architectural Digest, A Mexican Artisan Collective Fights COVID-19 With a Simple Handwashing Station. Vera was already working in Oaxaca running her non-profit organization Cosa Buena and teaching English in the local neighborhood when Covid-19 struck. Vera recounts, Traditional markets are a way of life here in Oaxaca, and many people live day by ...day and have to visit them frequently. I felt this was somewhere I could be of service to our community. I began thinking about hand washing stations. I started researching and received a lot of helpful information from the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) website. My husband and I built a prototype station and worked with our local market's administrator to get it set up at the entrance. The community responded wonderfully and we were asked to start building them for all the markets in Oaxaca and the villages where I work with our traditional artisans. Our alums are amazing! Keep changing the world Vera! Read more here: https://www.architecturaldigest.com//a-mexican-artisan-col #SFSU #SFSUEnglish #tesol #language #oaxaca #langaugelearning #languages #teacher #handwashing #washyourhands #covid19 #nonprofit

Sorry to brag but we had to share a few kind words about our MA Literature Program from alum Dena Rod. . "I feel indebted to SFSU's MA Literature program because it laid the bedrock for my worldview and political framework today. The legacy of social justice inherent in SFSU taught me to never be afraid of questioning the canonical texts and seeking those whose writing is typically pushed to the fringes. I was encouraged on this path by my graduate advisors and thesis commi...ttee, which led to me writing my MA thesis on Audre Lorde's poetry at a time when most were not as familiar with her work as they are today. Studying Lorde's work in such depth cemented the importance of not remaining silent in the face of the systems that would rather keep us silent. Today, I'm a poet, writer, and editor who works to illuminate my experiences as a queer Iranian American in the diaspora, following in Audre Lorde's legacy of defining herself before others dare to. I have SFSU's MA Literature program to thank! . Thank you for the kind words Dena and for being a part of our Lit family! We’re in awe of Dena’s work since graduating! Make sure to check out it out here: https://www.denarod.com/ . #SFSU #SFSUEnglish #poet #poetry #writer #writing #editor #socialjustice #gradstudent #highereducation #literature #audrelorde #book #essays See more

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