Dominican University English Department

10/01/2024

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-writing-retreat-tickets-1013902699267?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for a day of writing and inspiration.

09/18/2024

Let’s fall into a new season of poetry with a luminous reading by Joan Baranow and Matthew Gellman. Baranow authored six poetry books including Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, and Gellman is the author of Beforelight. Come out for the poems and cool conversation. Or maybe just for the refreshments. Doors open at 6:15. Reading begins at 6:30. In collaboration with the Marin Poetry Center.

Thursday, September 19th | 6:30pm
Creekside Room

To register (required) and to learn more about the poets:

Let's fall into a new season of poetry with a luminous reading by Joan Baranow and Matthew Gellman. Come out for the poems and cool conversation. Or maybe just for the...

05/05/2023

https://www.dominican.edu/news/news-listing/english-professors-research-focuses-invisible-illnesses

Our Communication and Media Relations department (thanks Dave Albee et al.) have posted in News Hub on the Homepage today a faculty profile on assistant professor of English Dr. Vivian Delchamps.

She is teaching her students at Dominican the connections between how women authors from the 1800s articulated their experiences with illness, pain, and medical diagnosis in ways that still resonate with people living with disability and chronic illness today.

Dr. Delchamps’ research includes “The Invisible Illness Narratives in the United States” about how people have turned to social media to reflect on their experiences living with medical conditions that deeply impact an individual’s mental and physical health but are not verifiable by medical data or physical examination.

A scholar of 19th-century American literature, Dr.

10/25/2022

10/15/2022

On behalf of Mojgan Behmand, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty...

"Longtime English faculty member Dr. Alan Cumings has passed away at the age of 77 after a long period of ill health.

Dr. Cumings received his BA in English at the University of California, Berkeley, and continued on to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for his MA and PhD in English with special training in Communication. He joined the Dominican adjunct faculty in 2000, specializing in teaching communication and research writing. Prior to joining the Dominican faculty, Dr. Cumings was an instructor in computer graphics; an instructor of English as a Second Language in adult and community education; and an editorial designer and art director at a publishing company. He also worked as a freelance copywriter and graphic designer in the Bay Area.

Dr. Cumings authored newspaper articles on the subjects of resumé writing and job seeking skills for teens and college students, and he put that knowledge to use in teaching and advising his students at Dominican. Sometimes viewed as quirky, he was beloved by his students and was a finalist for the Teacher of the Year Award in Spring 2008. Those of us in the English Department remember Alan as a kind and soft-spoken colleague with a dry sense of humor who authored incredibly effective study guides, and was inordinately dedicated to his students.

Dr. Cumings is survived by his wife Claire, who is also known to many in the Dominican community for her staff role in the Department of Psychology. No services will be held; however, if you wish to express your condolences, you may do so through posting on the Neptune Society obituary page."

Our sincerest condolences.

Literature, Language, and Humanities

02/18/2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/20-books-to-better-understand-race-and-racism/ss-AATwjYO?li=BBnbfcL =1

Since 1926, Black History Week, and later Black History Month, have been celebrated each February in the United States, with a series of events that aim to acknowledge the contributions of African-Americans. The idea later spread to Canada, to the UK and elsewhere around the world. Since the rise of...

01/21/2022

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/21-rhetorical-devices-explained?utm_source=pocket-newtab

From the ones you know to a few new tricks. Pleonasm, anyone?

10/01/2021

Accepting submissions for our Fall 2021 issue - open to students, faculty, staff, and the wider Dominican Community. And to you too!

Early bird submission deadline is October 4th; however, we will accepting submissions through the month of October.

Click here to submit:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nOInoy1SnMw-vdkx-wCMxxq2_tUtPji1Qsga7Za3OrI/edit?ts=61566057

04/27/2021

Your pocket guide to 10 literary movements

From The Harlem Renaissance to Flarf Poetry.

03/31/2021

Join English and Humanities faculty, staff, and students as we mark and participate today.

March 31 is the International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Trans Day of Visibility is an annual awareness day celebrated around the world. The day is dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of transgender and gender nonconforming people while raising awareness of the work that still needs to be done to achieve trans justice.

https://www.glsen.org/activity/transgender-day-visibility

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/31/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2021/

https://www.nctcsf.org/TransNational-Cabaret

Trans Day of Visibility is an annual awareness day celebrated around the world. The day is dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of transgender and gender nonconforming people while raising awareness of the work that still needs to be done to achieve trans justice.

03/30/2021

Now accepting submissions for its Spring 2021 issue through April 16th.

https://tuxedoartsjournal.com/

Email submissions (if Google Form is not accessible) and any questions to [email protected].

Please attach your text submissions in a Word document; images as PNG or JPG files.

Please include a short 3 sentence biography and your contact information.