June 2, 2025
Four Wagner College students participated earlier this month in a conference sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in Times Square. The two-day conference on May 2 and 3 drew 200 professional journalists and journalism students from the tri-state area and featured more than […]
February 10, 2025
The English department is excited about the upcoming visit of Dr. Mary Helen Washington to Wagner College on Tuesday, February 11. Dr. is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Maryland. She has edited numerous anthologies and editions of literature by black women. Her book The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural […]
November 22, 2024
Wagner alumna Elena Rotzokou returned to her alma mater to present her new research on the nineteenth-century English poet John Keats to the students in Professor Charlotte Fiehn's EN224 class on Monday, November 18 at 1:00 pm. Her presentation was titled "Keats, Time, and Revolution." Elena graduated from Wagner College in 2021 and then completed […]
November 20, 2024
Students gathered on Tuesday evening, November 19, for pizza, poetry, and therapeutic vibes. The event kicked off with some incendiary poems by Roya Marsh, who then invited students to step up to the "mic" and perform their own original creations. Roya Marsh is a native of the Bronx and a nationally recognized poet, performer, educator, […]
November 15, 2024
Poet, fiction writer, translator, scholar, and educator John Keene visited Wagner College's campus on Tuesday, November 12 to read his poetry and discuss literature with faculty, staff, and students. Keene's book Punks: New and Selected Poems won several awards, including the National Book Award for poetry, in 2022. In addition to poetry, he also published […]
October 23, 2023
Thursday, October 19, Wagner’s English department welcomed guest writer Emily Skillings to campus as part of its expanding creative writing programming. In the morning, Professor Eric Dean Wilson’s EN215: Introduction to Creative Writing hosted Skillings for a class-length reading and in-class workshop. In the evening, Skillings read poems in the Manzulli Boardroom to an audience […]
October 21, 2023
Monday evening, October 16, the English department hosted an event for alumni to discuss career opportunities with students. Often, college students imagine a direct, linear path from "major" to "job," but the world doesn't actually work that way. As a recent article in Fortune magazine points out, with all of the technological, social, philosophical, and […]
September 29, 2023
Tuesday evening, September 26, three Wagner College graduates returned to their alma mater to speak with students about their careers in law. The event was co-sponsored by the English department and the Wagner Pre-Law Society. All of the speakers majored in English at Wagner and spoke about the usefulness of the skills they learned in […]
September 28, 2023
Tuesday morning, September 26, Mehret Amsalu Dubale visited the classroom of English professor Steven W. Thomas and microbiology professor Melissa Lamanna. The class was the Reflective Tutorial (RFT) for their First-Year-Program Learning Community on the theme of "Disease, Literature, and Society." Mehret has been a "health systems researcher" in her home country Ethiopia for several […]
July 11, 2023
This summer (2023), a few weeks after graduating from Wagner College, Kevin Roach attended the Rutgers English Diversity Institute (REDI). The REDI program at the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick is designed for promising students whose diverse socioeconomic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds may contribute to the scholarly field of English and American literary studies. […]