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New NFT Collection to Support Pollock-Krasner House

The floor of Jackson Pollock's studio is now the centerpiece of a new NFT collection launched on July 19 that will support the Jackson-Pollock House

July 26, 2023

2 min read

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Awards and Honors College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities News Highlights University

Department of English Faculty Receive National Humanities Fellowships

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...

May 26, 2023

4 min read

Events Faculty/Staff Humanities News Highlights University

The End of the English Major? SBU Panel Says ‘Not So Fast’

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...

May 26, 2023

6 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Events Humanities News Highlights On Campus University

Marathon Paradise Lost Reading Highlights Timeless Classic

A marathon, all-day reading of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was hosted the Department of English at Stony Brook University on April 19.

May 1, 2023

4 min read

College of Arts & Sciences Events Humanities On Campus University

April Is National Poetry Month

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...

April 7, 2023

1 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities News Highlights University

‘Writing Beyond the Prison’ Amplifies Voice of the Incarcerated and Their Families

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...

December 5, 2022

5 min read

Academics College of Arts & Sciences Humanities News Highlights University

Tomczak Proposal Awarded NEH Grant for ‘Dyckman Discussions’ Series

The project aims to create more unified communities as people see commonalities between themselves and their neighbors.

October 7, 2022

4 min read

College of Arts & Sciences Events Humanities On Campus

Join the Discussion, ‘James Joyce’s Ulysses: The First 100 Years,’ March 9

English faculty Elyse Graham, Celia Marshik and Michael Rubenstein will discuss the value of the novel to their scholarship and teaching.

March 2, 2022

2 min read

Academics Alda Center College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities University

Ken Weitzman’s Plays View Current Issues Through a Historic Lens

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...

November 18, 2021

5 min read

Featured Story Humanities Medicine News Highlights STEM University

Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics Practices the Art of Healing

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...

November 15, 2021

6 min read

Academics Events Faculty/Staff Graduate School Humanities News Highlights SB Southampton University

Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Write America’ Series Is Making an Impact

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.

August 30, 2021

3 min read

Community Humanities University

Young Writers Online Creative Writing Workshops this Summer

Workshops, conducted via Zoom, pair seasoned writing instructors and adult writers with students, ages 13-18, in fiction, essay, poetry and scriptwriting.

May 13, 2021

1 min read

Community Humanities SB Southampton University

Young Writers Online Summer Workshops

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...

April 13, 2021

2 min read

Arts & Entertainment Faculty/Staff Humanities Long Island News Highlights SB Southampton Stony Brook Matters

Roger Rosenblatt, Book Revue Launch New Literary Series, Write America

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...

February 1, 2021

3 min read

College of Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Humanities Main University Stony Brook Matters

Loredana Polezzi Named Alfonse M. D’Amato Endowed Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies

Her recent work focuses on diasporic Italian cultures and on multilingual education in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

January 25, 2021

4 min read

Academics Graduate School Humanities News Highlights University

Stony Brook Adds First MFA in Television Writing in the SUNY System

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.

December 7, 2020

3 min read

Arts & Entertainment Faculty/Staff Humanities

Philip Setzer: My Side of the Story

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...

November 24, 2020

9 min read

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Arts & Entertainment COVID-19 Featured Story Humanities Medicine Stony Brook Matters

Art Historians Picture Pandemics in Grand Rounds Lecture

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...

November 16, 2020

6 min read

Category: Humanities

New NFT Collection to Support Pollock-Krasner House

Department of English Faculty Receive National Humanities Fellowships

The End of the English Major? SBU Panel Says ‘Not So Fast’

Marathon Paradise Lost Reading Highlights Timeless Classic

April Is National Poetry Month

‘Writing Beyond the Prison’ Amplifies Voice of the Incarcerated and Their Families

Tomczak Proposal Awarded NEH Grant for ‘Dyckman Discussions’ Series

Join the Discussion, ‘James Joyce’s Ulysses: The First 100 Years,’ March 9

Ken Weitzman’s Plays View Current Issues Through a Historic Lens

Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics Practices the Art of Healing

Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Write America’ Series Is Making an Impact

Young Writers Online Creative Writing Workshops this Summer

Young Writers Online Summer Workshops

Roger Rosenblatt, Book Revue Launch New Literary Series, Write America

Loredana Polezzi Named Alfonse M. D’Amato Endowed Chair in Italian American and Italian Studies

Stony Brook Adds First MFA in Television Writing in the SUNY System

Philip Setzer: My Side of the Story

Art Historians Picture Pandemics in Grand Rounds Lecture

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