Laura Bassi Scholarship: application deadline March 31
The Laura Bassi Scholarship, which awards a total of $8,000 thrice per annum, was established by Editing Press in 2018 with the aim of providing […]
Beyond Academia Conference 2021
Berkeley is hosting their 9th consecutive Beyond Academia conference (though fully virtual this year!) from February 25th-26th. There will be nearly 100 speakers who discuss […]
Plants and Poetics: A Panel Discussion (Noon March 31 on YouTube)
…featuring St. John’s own Professor Lee Ann Brown! at University of Pennsylvania Kelly Writers House: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0321.php#31 PLANTS AND POETICS: A PANEL DISCUSSION Lee Ann Brown, […]
Congratulations to Nancy Alvarez and Raquel Corona on their publication!
Dr. Nancy Alvarez (PhD ’17) and Dr. Raquel Corona (PhD 2021) had their chapter “Estamos Locas? Narratives of Resistance in an English PhD Program” about […]
Junior English majors: Internship Opportunity at Plough Magazine
The internship is described below by Dana Wiser, its coordinator: “We offer 8 seats, 4 at a time for a month each. Interns assist editorially […]
Spring Bookmarks #1: Dr. Gregory Maertz on 3/15
Bookmarks, Dr. Maertz Poster Our first Bookmarks event of the spring semester will feature Dr. Gregory Maertz in dialogue with Dr. Stephen Sicari about Nostalgia for […]
Dr. Phillip Grayson, Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee State University
News from St. John’s English Ph.D. alumnae! Dr. Phillip Grayson, who graduated from St. John’s with his Ph.D. in English in 2017, is currently a […]
Book Release Announcement
An exciting announcement from one of St. John’s own Ph.D. students—Peter Vanderberg’s chapbook, celestial navigation, is being published spring 2021 by Finishing Line Press! On […]
Bigger 6 / CECS Article Prize
Bigger 6 / CECS Article Prize We’re pleased to announce a prize for the best article from 2020 in Romanticist studies by an emerging scholar […]
NYCDH Week Workshop Registration Is Open (1/22)
NYCDH Week Workshop Registration Is Open: as of 4:53 am, January 22, 2021 It’s Time to Register for NYCDH Week 2021!!! The workshops have been […]
The St. John’s University Humanities Review Volume 17, Issue 1, Winter 2020
This issue of The St. John’s University Humanities Review seeks to provide educators with invigorating, practical, and effective pedagogical methods to apply to their classrooms. […]
Princeton University Press Diversify Publishing Fellowship (deadline 2/15/21)
Below please find information regarding the Princeton University Press Diversify Publishing Fellowship, taken directly from their Twitter thread: Applications are open for our Diversify Publishing […]
UMass Amherst Graduate History Association 17th Annual Conference (proposals due January 29)
The Graduate History Association of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst invites proposals for its 17th annual interdisciplinary conference. This year’s conference is entitled “Stories of (In)Equality: […]
Ph.D. Candidate Sarah Glessner’s Book Review
Below please find first-year Ph.D. candidate and doctoral fellow Sarah Glessner’s book review, copied from the International Sociological Association’s website. You can read the official […]
New Article from PhD student Peggy Suzuki!
Congratulations to Peggy Suzuki, a student finishing in our Phd Program this year (and an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College), who just got an essay published […]
Paid Internship: Ithaka S+R (deadline 12/4/20)
Here’s an interesting-looking internship program, with a soon-approaching Dec 4 deadline:
Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Internship
Follow think link for more information! https://www.loc.gov/item/internships/junior-fellows-program/
Race and Science Fiction at City Tech–CUNY 11/19
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/2020/11/06/program-and-registration-for-the-fifth-annual-city-tech-science-fiction-symposium-on-race-and-science-fiction/
BIPOC in Academic Event (W 11/18 5 pm)
BIPOC in Academia panel Come Zoom with two current English PhD students and two alums of our program on Wednesday 11/18 to discuss “what has […]
Trinity College One-Year Pre- or Post-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship Deadline November 15
Ann Plato Fellowship Trinity College invites applications for a one-year pre- or post-doctoral fellowship to promote diversity at our nationally recognized liberal arts college in […]
Dissertation Fellowship Deadline January 6 2021
Dissertation Fellowship AADS Dissertation Fellowship DEADLINE: 6 January 2021 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) Boston College’s African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) […]