Trans* Studies Conference at U of Arizona
September 7-10, 2016 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Trans*studies is a 4-day international academic conference that welcomes work from any field on any topic pertaining […]
Month: January 2016
Faculty Publications 2015 #3
Prof. Lee Ann Brown has a host of new publications but wanted to highlight the following: “My main publication this past year was a book […]
MELUS Call for Papers for Special Issue
2017 Special Issue (Pedagogy) MELUS Call for Papers for Special Issue Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States: Pedagogy in Anxious Times Guest Editors: Cristina […]
Kostas Anagnopoulos and Charles North Reading
Readings in Contemporary Poetry Queens resident, Kostas Anagnopoulos, and Charles North will be reading at Dia: Chelsea on Tuesday, February 9th, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. […]
SJU Faculty and Grad Students at MLA
St. John’s University Department of English was well-represented at the 2016 Modern Languages Association (MLA) conference in Austin, TX. Doctoral students Laura Lisbeth and Cristina […]
Call for applications – Schlesinger Library Research, Dissertation, and Oral History grants
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites applicants for a variety of research grants. The library’s special collections document over two […]
PhD Application fee waiver
Type: Grant Subject Fields: Graduate Studies For students intent on going to grad school, they’re probably anticipating to hear which programs they’ve been accepted into […]
Institute for Humane Studies Grant
Type: Grant Subject Fields: Digital Humanities, Graduate Studies, Humanities, Philosophy, Political Science With the PhD Scholarship from the Institute for Humane Studies, 100 entering and […]
CFP: Queer Form, a special issue of ASAP/Journal
Call for Papers: “Queer Form” A special issue of ASAP/Journal Volume 2, Issue 2 (May 2017). Edited by Kadji Amin, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy […]
MA and Doctoral Fellowships
The English department expects to have a limited number of MA and PhD-level fellowships to award for the Fall 2016 semester. Current students at either level […]
STJ Professional Development for Graduate Students & Doctoral Fellows
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is hosting a Graduate Assessment Workshop on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. (location/room tba). […]
CAPICU! Cultural Showcase: Spoken Word 2/12/16
Paposwiggity & Urban Jibaro present CAPICU!, a cultural showcase at The Peoples Open Mic on Friday February 12th, 2016, starting at 7:00 p.m. The following spoken […]
Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards [Deadline: 3/15/16]
Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards Deadline: March 15, 2016 The Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award and Myong Cha Son Haiku Award welcome unpublished, original poems. […]
Film Showing: Love Between The Covers
“[This] feature-length film takes an affectionate look at the vast, unheralded community of women who have effectively kept the publishing industry afloat.”–The Boston Globe Screening […]
Northwestern University Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Black Arts
Northwestern University Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Black Arts The Black Arts Initiative at NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Black […]
2015 Faculty Publications #2
Happy New Year, everyone! Here are a few more entries for our very productive English faculty: Dr. Raj Chetty Co-editor with Amaury Rodríquez. “Dominican […]
Vernacular Insurrections
Former St. John’s University English & Writing faculty member, Dr. Carmen Kynard, won the 2015 James M. Britton Award, presented by Conference on English Education, […]
César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dartmouth College invites applications for the César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship supports a scholar whose research addresses aspects of Latino/a experience and culture. Particular […]
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Deadline Feb. 1
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Next application deadline: February 1, 2016. The NERFC, a collaboration of twenty-one major cultural agencies, will offer at least […]
Sonia Sanchez Reading, February 11th!
Sonia Sanchez, the renowned Black Arts Movement poet, comes to St. John’s to read on Thursday Feb. 11th, 2016 during Common Hour (1:50pm-3:15pm). The English Department […]