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Starting
from Paumanok
The Annual Lecture on American Literature and Culture
Starting
from Paumanok, a series of annual lectures on American literature,
was inaugurated by the English Department at Long Island
University's Brooklyn Campus in 1983.
By naming the series after Walt Whitman's great poem
(which invokes the Algonkian name for Long Island), the
English Department acknowledges Long Island University's
geographic and cultural connection with one of Brooklyn's
(and Long Island's) foremost literary figures.
Click
here for a full list of past programs.
Watch the English Department
blog (The
Longest Island) for announcements about this year's
lecture.
The faculty
of the English Department would like to thank President
David Steinberg, Provost Gale Haynes, and Dean David Cohen,
all of whom, with the support of the Mellon Foundation and
Long Island University's John P. McGrath fund, have made
a significant and ongoing commitment to the series.
We are also grateful to the History Department, the Honor's
Program, the English Department's Voices
of the Rainbow Series, and the Gender Studies Program,
which have also generously provided funding for the series
over the years.
For further
information about the series, contact Donald
McCrary.
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