Articles by Steve Mentz

Welcome back to campus on a chilly morning in January! It’s gorgeous and quiet, with single digit temperatures and Sunday’s snowfall still mostly untouched. The […]

We’re excited to shout out one more December doctoral defense before the year ends! Dr. Joey Weisler’s dissertation, “From Scars Into Stars: Transforming The Pain […]

We’re excited to finish up our F24 semester with an interview from our alum Dr. Leslie J. Fernandez, who did their BA in English with […]

With apologies for a slight delay in posting, we want to celebrate Dr. Nouf Arige’s defense from last month. Her dissertation is called, ““Disturbing The […]

Marisa Berman Hollywood started the PhD at St John’s University ten years ago— two full-time higher-education jobs, three children, and one ambitious dissertation later, she […]

Looking for a venue to trot out your recent Women and Gender Studies research?  Hoping to organize a panel on a WGS topic?  Maybe you […]

Seats are still available for this amazing course, taught by Erica Hunt, our incoming D’Angelo Chair for the S25 semester. The course will include special […]

Come to the final Third Thursdays event this semester for an Open Poetry Reading in the Back Lounge of the Writing Center on Th 11/21 […]

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected […]

We’re a few weeks into the afterglow of Whitman on Walls!,  and I want to share just a bit of feedback from one of the students […]

As we gear up for Thanksgiving break and the final push toward the end of the semester, I want to profile one last F24 English […]

Come to DAC 128 at 11 am this Wed 11/13 for a film screening and conversation about Die Jim Crow Records, now known as Freer […]

For anyone (else) who can’t get enough Whitman on Walls!, the amazing event the SJU English department hosted last Saturday, I have a few things […]

When I peeled myself out of the car after a long post-WoW! drive home Saturday night, I got an email from Jose Perez, a poet-performer […]

On Tuesday Nov 12 I’m taking the grad stduents in my English 110: Intro to the Profession class to see “We Are Your Robots,” a […]

Great to see Whitman on Walls! featured in today’s Broadway World!  

  Here’s a flyer about a new podcast from Joey Weisler, PhD candidate from the English department. It’s about his podcast  Classroom Narratives: Healing in […]

Coming soon – this Saturday in DAC 206 at 4 pm! Get a free ticket here or just come along!

It’s almost time to start registering for S25 classes! Here are the dates – For undergraduate students – Seniors can register starting Oct 30. Juniors […]

Coming to us all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, the hydrofeminist scholar and surfer Nike Romano will be in the Writing Center for […]

We are so excited to share our lineup of poets and poems for the Whitman on Walls! event on campus Sat 10/26. We plan to […]