Great Writers, Great Readings Spring 2015 Begins Feb. 25 with D.T. Max
Great Writers, Great Readings The following events, sponsored by the English Department and the MFA in Creative Writing Program, are free and open to the public. They all take place at the Leo A....
View ArticleStudent Film Chosen for Record Five Festivals
A new film by graduate documentary student Indrani Kopal ’15 has now been accepted to five festivals, the most of any student film in the MFA Documentary Studies and Production program. “The Game...
View ArticleGreat Writers, Great Readings Welcomes Poet Michael Collier, Oct. 14
Poet Michael Collier, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and former poet laureate of Maryland, is the first speaker for the 11th season of Hofstra’s Great Writers, Great Readings Series,...
View ArticleGreat Writers, Great Readings Welcomes Author Jeffrey K. Eugenides (“The...
Hofstra’s 11th annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey K. Eugenides on Monday, November 10, at 7 p.m. Location is the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center...
View ArticleJeffrey K. Eugenides (“The Virgin Suicides”) Reading Tonight, Nov. 10
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey K. Eugenides is on campus today to participate in the Great Writers, Great Readings Series. Earlier today, he met with English majors and students in the MFA in...
View ArticleNew Yorker Staff Writer and Author D.T. Max Next Up for Great Writers, Great...
Hofstra University’s 11th Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series welcomes D.T. Max, staff writer at The New Yorker whose 2012 book, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster...
View ArticleGreat Writers, Great Readings Welcomes Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright...
Hofstra’s 11th annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, who wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights. More...
View ArticlePulitzer Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes Shares Selections from New Musical
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes performed songs from a new musical, tentatively titled Miss You Like Hell, with her collaborator and accompanist Erin McKeown while she was on...
View ArticleGrad Student’s Film to Screen at Cannes
A widely-acclaimed documentary by MFA film student Indrani Kopal will be screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious and famous film festival in the world. Her film, The Game...
View ArticleGrad Student’s Film Wins at Cannes Festival
MFA film student Indrani Kopal’s short film, The Game Changer, was named best student documentary Monday at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in France, the most prestigious of international film...
View ArticleAlums’ Films Win Festival Honors
Two alumni of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication’s film programs have won honors at the Metropolitan Film Festival, a New York City festival that showcases the best in independent filmmaking....
View ArticleAuthor Kelly McMasters Joins Faculty; Hosts July 14 Reading
Kelly McMasters, author of Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town and a new member of the Hofstra English Department faculty, will present a talk and reading of her work on Tuesday, July 14,...
View ArticleBiography by Julia Markus to be Published on Ada Lovelace Bicentenary
Dr. Julia Markus, professor of English and a core faculty member of Hofstra’s MFA in Creative Writing program, will see the publication of her new book, Lady Byron and Her Daughters (W. W. Norton &...
View ArticleJulia Markus Celebrates Publication of Lady Byron Biography
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, a 19th century science and technology pioneer, falls on the same date that a biography of her mother, Lady Byron, is being published by a Hofstra...
View ArticleJulia Markus Reading at the Astoria Bookshop, Oct. 28
Dr. Julia Markus, a core faculty member of the MFA in Creative Writing program, is scheduled to present a reading of her new book, Lady Byron and Her Daughters (W.W. Norton & Company), at the...
View ArticleA Rave for Julia Markus in The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review
View ArticleMFA in Creative Writing to Host Reception at the Center for Fiction in NYC
Hofstra’s MFA in Creative Writing Program is hosting an open house at the Center for Fiction in New York City on Saturday, February 6, from 2-4:30 p.m. Meet MFA faculty, alumni and students to learn...
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