South Texas College - English Department

Join us for the Jag Lit Festival! Our workshops and panels will be hosted at the Pecan Campus.

Tuesday, March 11th
12-1pm: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop – J 1-704 – Julieta Corpus
1:30-2:30pm: Emerging Writers and Publication Workshop – Building D Auditorium – Colleen Brooks Bryant and Thomas Ray Garcia

Wednesday, March 12th
10-11:30am: Creative Nonfiction Panel – Building D Auditorium – Juan P. Carmona and Taylor Seaver De La Fuente
CANCELLED: 12-1pm: Fiction Workshop – J 1-704 – Marisa Taylor

Thursday, March 13th
12:30-1:30pm: Poetry Panel – Building D Auditorium – Isaac Chavarria and Erika Garza
1:30-3pm: Fiction Panel – Building D Auditorium – Liana Andreasen, Thomas Ray Garcia, Joe Haske, and Juan Ochoa

Join us for the Jag Lit Festival! Our workshops and panels focused on the art of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be hosted at the Pecan Campus.

Tuesday, March 11th
12-1pm: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop – J 1-704 – Julieta Corpus
1:30-2:30pm: Emerging Writers and Publication Workshop – Building D Auditorium – Colleen Brooks Bryant and Thomas Ray Garcia

Wednesday, March 12th
10-11:30am: Creative Nonfiction Panel – Building D Auditorium – Juan P. Carmona and Taylor Seaver De La Fuente
12-1pm: Fiction Workshop – J 1-704 – Marisa Taylor

Thursday, March 13th
12:30-1:30pm: Poetry Panel – Building D Auditorium – Isaac Chavarria and Erika Garza
1:30-3pm: Fiction Panel – Building D Auditorium – Liana Andreasen, Thomas Ray Garcia, Joe Haske, and Juan Ochoa

Join us for a presentation with Professor David Oakes on Wednesday, February 26th at 3:30 PM. The event will be hosted at the Mid-Valley campus in room G191.

Join us for an author talk with Liana V. Andreasen on Monday, November 18th at 2 PM. The event will be hosted at the Pecan campus in room F102, and it will be presented via Zoom webinar. Register using the QR code.

Dr. David Oakes' next presentation in the Books To Movies 2 Lecture Series will take place at the Mid-Valley campus in Room G-191 this Wednesday from 4-5 PM.

We are like books…

The Book to Film series will present "The Birth of the Vampire from Literature to Cinema" presented by Silvia Herrera and Liana Andreasen. The event will take place on Monday, October 28th from 3-4 PM at the Pecan Campus in the Building D Auditorium.

Dr. David Oakes' next presentation in the Books To Movies 2 Lecture Series will take a look at new adaptations of the classic monster stories of Frankenstein and Dracula. Movies like Last Voyage of the Demeter, Lisa Frankenstein, Renfield, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, and others will be discussed.

Great exhibitions coming up this semester from the South Texas College Library.

Keep an eye on our upcoming events for the Fall Semester:
https://buff.ly/2MeQF7G

Dr. David Oakes, Liana Andreasen,
Robin Andreasen, and Silvia E. Herrera
Present

Revising, Reviving and Revitalizing Horror Classics: Exploring
How Mike Flanagan Took The Classic Works of Shirley
Jackson, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe and the Vampire
Genre and Remade Them for a 21st Century Audience

Friday, April 12, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Live On Zoom