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The University of Maryland is hosting a conference in Queer Studies on April 17, 2015, which features a plenary session by the St. John’s English […]

These pictures, courtesy of my new phone, convey on a little bit of the excitement and intellectual flair of this great event, which was organized […]

A reminder to all dissertation-writing graduate students: the application form for the UDAF fellowship, which pays for two semesters of the 975 Doctoral Research seminar, […]

Two members of the English Department, Dr. Anne Geller and Dr. Harry Denny, have recently had their co-written article, “Of Ladybugs, Low Status, and Loving […]

Our Course Offerings page now contains the flyers with course descriptions through Spring 2015. The page starts with Fall 2012, if you’d like to browse!

Lisa Robertson reads from CINEMA OF THE PRESENT: (COACH HOUSE BOOKS) 11am-12 noon + Q&A on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31st What if the cinema of the present […]

A possible afternoon job for English majors: I was told to contact your office to try to your students employment at our agency.   The Greater […]

For anyone interested in following along, here are the course Tumblrs for Dr. Smalls’s two fall courses: Race and Speculation Global Blackness (1000C)

Jamaican-born “dub” poet Linton Kwesi Johnson will be speaking at NYU on Sept 19th and 23rd. Professors Raj Chetty and Dohra Ahmad may be taking […]

All St John’s English students or interested parties are encouraged to add this blog to your Feedly or other RSS feed, follow our Facebook page, […]

Here’s a message about an internship opportunity that we recently received from the Writopia Lab: Hello! My name is Cherie Buenaflor and I work for […]

WRITING INTERNSHIP In Cooperation with the College of Professional Studies / Division of Mass Communications, Journalism, Television, and Film   Communications Arts (COM) Communications Internship […]

Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference   The Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst will host its […]

Please contact Czareena S. Dotchev (Czareena_Dotchev@schumer.senate.gov) if you are interested in applying to be an intern in Sen. Charles Schumer’s Long Island Office. It’s not […]

Please contact Susan Damiani, Director of Gift Planning (damianis@stjohns.edu) if you are interested in the GA being offered by her office. Details below.

DA student Nathalie Virgintino has recently published an entry in a research blog sponsored by the University of Wisconsin. Her blog post is here. Here’s a […]

Angela Hooks, doctoral student in English, recently received a $2000 grant to support her research project “Private Writing Shapes Voices for Public Discourse” in the […]

St. John’s University is very proud of its six — six! — new Doctors of Arts in English, who received their hoods from their mentors […]