E.K. Tan Selected for National Humanities Center Fellowship; Andrew Newman Receives One-Year Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities Two faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences Department of...
In February, The New Yorker published “The End of the English Major,” a virtual eulogy to the discipline and the humanities. In April, faculty members from Stony Brook University’s Department of English in the College...
Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture. In honor of this special tribute to poetry, the College of Arts and Sciences Department of...
When shared with the wider world, writing moves beyond an act of individual consciousness and self-expression to become a communal exchange that creates knowledge, compassion, empathy, recognition of shared conditions...
When COVID hit, theaters around the country scrambled to find a way to continue operating. Like many other industries, some theaters began creating online performances that could be viewed from the safety of the home...
For all the information hidden in the mountains of data compiled by the computers of the Information Age, we sometimes forget that the answer can be found with a simple observation. It’s a philosophy that Stephen...
The series features a group of nationally renowned authors, alongside new and emerging writers, in conversation about how books and art might bridge the deep divisions in our nation.
Workshops, conducted via Zoom, pair seasoned writing instructors and adult writers with students, ages 13-18, in fiction, essay, poetry and scriptwriting.
The Young Writers Workshops, sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton’s Creative Writing MFA and the Young Artists and Writers Project (YAWP), will be held online this summer. The workshops are dedicated to mentoring...
Novelist Roger Rosenblatt, a Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor of English and Writing, has launched a new weekly literary series, Write America, which features renowned and emerging writers in weekly...
Located at the Manhattan Center for Creative Writing and Film, and partnered with Killer Films, the Television Writing MFA is among the most comprehensive in the world.
Emerson Quartet Violinist Philip Setzer Recounts Tense Trip to Taipei Stony Brook Violin Professor Philip Setzer is a founding member of the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet, Stony Brook University’s Quartet...
In a virtual Grand Rounds lecture titled “Picturing Pandemic Disease,” presented by the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Barry Coller, MD, Hon. ’03 and former Stony Brook faculty member...