Harry Ewan

Assistant Professor

St. John's College of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity Core

MFA, 2015, Long Island University, Brooklyn, Creative Writing/FictionBA, 2012, New York University, Humanities

Harry J. Ewan has been instructing a First Year Writing course entitled “Language and Power in and out of the Academy” for seven years. The course currently explores rhetorical, research-based, and ethnographic writing practices themed around cultural/subcultural topics and issues. Among other campus activities, Harry is co-faculty advisor for "Intersections," an online journal of First Year Writing in its 3rd year of publication, and he has also taught at SJU's Rome campus with our Global Passport Program in 2022 and again in 2023.

Print Publications (pseudonym: Harry McEwan): "A Christmas Karl" screenplay (Drama/Sci Fi winner 2022 TITAN International Screenwriting Competition; Pearl Award for Diversity winner 2022 TITAN International Screenwriting Competition Pearl Award for Diversity); “Smoke and Shadows” novel excerpt (The Opiate, spring 2017). Digital Publications: “Our Table” (The Opiate, February 2017); “Trashed” fiction (Your Impossible Voice! fall 2015), etc. In addition to stage plays, fiction, and screenwriting, Harry is currently working on an article, “Writing Out of the Margins: An LGBTQ Professor’s Journey to Holism at a Catholic University.”

Print Publications (pseudonym: Harry McEwan): “Trashed” cross-genre: memoir/fiction (Your Impossible Voice! fall 2015); “Smoke and Shadows” novel excerpt (The Opiate, spring 2017). Digital Publications: “Our Table” (The Opiate, February 2017); “Sempre Sigrid: an Interview with Novelist Sigrid Nunez” (visceral Brooklyn (defunct) fall 2015). In addition to stage plays and fiction, Harry is currently working on an article, “Writing Out of the Margins: An LGBTQ Professor’s Journey to Holism at a Catholic University.”

First Year Writing (English: Core Composition)