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Laura Halferty earns Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence

May 12, 2020

Laura Halferty, an adjunct professor in the English and creative writing department, recently earned the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence for her encouraging, versatile and creativity-cultivating style.

Student life

Alumni step up to help college film festival go on

May 1, 2020

The show went on for an annual tradition for cinema and screen studies students thanks to alumni support and the determined creativity of filmmakers in the Oswego family.

Awards + honors

Leigh Wilson named SUNY Distinguished Service Professor

April 22, 2020

The State University of New York has recognized Leigh Wilson as a Distinguished Service Professor, one of the SUNY system’s highest honors.

Fiona Coll

March 20, 2020

English and creative writing faculty member Fiona Coll said "the most amazing job ad I had ever seen" drew her to Oswego, where she enjoys teaching at the intersection of literature and technology. Interviewed in early March, she discusses her love of Oswego students, literature and making sure knowledge is accessible. She coordinates Oswego's Faculty Accessibility Fellows program, which aims to ensure all learners have the best opportunity for education.

Campus

Student filmmakers have ‘engaging, enlightening’ experience in PitchNY program

December 6, 2019

For three SUNY Oswego cinema and screen studies students, participating in the select PitchNY program in November was the next step in their dreams of telling stories through film.

Arts + culture

Faculty member’s screenplay ‘Christmas Reservations’ to debut on Lifetime Nov. 2

October 24, 2019

A holiday movie co-written by Juliet Giglio of SUNY Oswego’s creative writing faculty, “Christmas Reservations,” will debut at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, on the Lifetime network.

Research

Book connecting games with literature wins prestigious popular culture award

October 1, 2019

A clever crossover between 19th-century games and literature earned a major popular culture award for Douglas Guerra of SUNY Oswego’s English and creative writing faculty.

Arts + culture

Living Writers Series brings variety of creators to campus

August 30, 2019

This fall’s Living Writers Series at SUNY Oswego will feature speakers who craft poetry, novels, graphic novels, short stories, songs, plays and screenplays -- and even exposed the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Community

Summer art, poetry exhibition to focus on shared responsibility for Lake Ontario

May 8, 2019

SUNY Oswego students -- about 60 of them -- from art, creative writing and music have created works for an Oswego State Downtown exhibition this summer that speaks to everyone's responsibility to steward the vast but threatened asset that is Lake Ontario.

Campus

Poet Rebecca Dunham, exposing disasters of human making, to speak Nov. 26

November 16, 2018

Rebecca Dunham -- a "poet as moral witness" -- will make a free presentation at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 26, in SUNY Oswego's Marano Campus Center auditorium as part of the English and creative writing department's Living Writers Series.