MA Thesis, Portfolio & PhD Comprehensive Exams Information Meeting
The English department & EGO are hosting an informational meeting, for all graduate students entering the post-coursework stage of the program, this Wednesday, February 15 […]
Academic Life
SJU LGBTQ+ Ctr Event: Dr. Dennis Tyler 2/24
Please join us for The LGBTQ+ Center at St. John’s University’s first event of the academic year on Thursday, February 24, from 1:50 to 3:15 p.m. in […]
Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play and Performance, Feb 17-19
Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play and Performance DATE: Thursday, February 17 to Saturday, February 19 LOCATION: Express Newark Express Newark at Rutgers University—Newark will host Black Portraiture[s]: […]
Writing ReMix with SJU alums!
Regular readers of this blog will know the Writing Remix podcast, produced by the USC Writing Department in Los Angeles and masterminded by SJU alum […]
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Courses at SJU Spring 2021
The Department of English will be hosting a new undergraduate course in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies (CRES) in Spring 2021. The course will be […]
Resource Guide: Safeguarding, Supporting, & Supervising Gender Minority Students
I am Dr. Chris Chevallier and I’ve been leading a project on gender minority students in higher education. This project was conducted in association with […]
Congrats to Dr. McCalla!
On Tuesday, April 7, Sam McCalla defended her masterful dissertation, “Colonial Education and Caribbean Literature in C.L.R James and George Lamming,” in which she discussed […]
Seventh Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference
CUNY Queens College Graduate English Conference is being held April 29, 2020 with keynote speaker Cristina Pérez Jiménez. This year’s conference is called “MOVE!: Conversations […]
Thirteenth Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
Rebels, Outlaws, Sinners and Saints: The Antihero/ine Protagonist Thirteenth Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference Date: Saturday, May 2nd The Batman villain “Two-Face” Harvey Dent […]
Discover France Literary Cultural Studies
Discover France with Professor Smalls in Fall 2020! Through this program, English students and cultural enthusiasts have the invaluable opportunity to keep on track for […]
MLA 2020 Career Development Bootcamp
The Career Development Boot Camp at the 2020 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle guides current graduate students as they explore their many career options. Please […]
May 13: From Dissertation to Book at The Graduate Center
Please join Intellectual Publics on May 13, 2019 for “From Dissertation to First Book: A Practical Guide” 6:30pm Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director of Duke University […]
Congratulations Laila Shikaki!
The students, faculty and staff at the St. John’s University Department of English would like to extend their warmest congratulations to Laila Shikaki, who recently […]
EVENT: From Dissertation to First Book: A Practical Guide
Intellectual Publics Series, Convened by Ken Wissoker Monday, May 13, 2019 630pm William P. Kelly Skylight Room (9100) The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue […]
2019 Summer Institute in Performance Studies at Northwestern
*2019 Summer Institute in Performance Studies* *Bring It In: Transnational Feminisms in Practice* *Northwestern University* *July 8-12, 2019* *Convener: Marcela A. Fuentes* The Center for […]
Dr. John Lowney Interviewed by Black Agenda Report
Dr. John Lowney was recently interviewed by Black Agenda Report about the significance of his latest book, Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics […]
The Human Cost of Adjunct Labor (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter/586168/
The PhD Pay Gap
An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education on the structural inequality in doctoral stipend gaps. Read here.
RESOURCE: MLA Doctoral Student Career Planning
Doctoral Student Career Planning: A Guide for PhD Programs and Faculty Members in English and Other Modern Languages
CFP: “Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance” at PENN STATE
DUE APRIL 1, 2019. Please circulate widely. Hope some of you can join us. The African American Studies Department at The Pennsylvania State University is […]
Thinking about Online Learning
For anyone (else!) who’s been dipping a toe into Online Education and wondering how it is changing our academic lives, here at St. John’s and […]
CFP: American Literature in the World Graduate Conference 2019 at Yale University
*American Literature in the World Graduate Conference* *Yale University April 5, 2019* The conference hopes to broaden the scope of American literature, opening it to […]