Parking If you are driving to campus and plan on parking, please use Gate 1. This is the visitor entrance off of Utopia Parkway where you can receive a free visitor’s parking pass from the public safety kiosk. To get to Gate 1, use the St. John’s Law School address (81-50D Utopia Pkwy, Jamaica, NY …
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Tabitha Benitez
“Diversity” In The University This article focuses on how the university reinforces institutional whiteness in curricula while appearing to maintain anti-racist goals. By studying terms like diversity and multicultural as well as the implication of a core university curriculum—or mainstream curriculum—, it becomes apparent in real-life applications of these ideas students of color are siloed in such a way …
Marla Katz
From Privileging the Few to Privileging the Many: An Argument for the Movement from Policies of Unidirectional English Monolingualism to Policies of Translingualism In late March of 2018, consultants from the St. John’s University Writing Center attended the Northeast Writing Center Association (NEWCA) annual conference. The consultants responded to the conference theme, “Closing the Circle: …
Gabriella Wilson
Border Thinking in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: The Repudiation of a Colonial Time-Space Frame of Reference Walter Mignolo, historically a theorist of Latin American border theories, stipulates, “Native Americans in the United States are in a border position not because they moved but because the world moved to them” (Local Histories 72). This paper expands …
Armando Estrada
Nepantla, Audiotopia, and the Role of the Creative Imagination: A Theology of Selena Quintanilla-Perez Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza has had an undeniable influence on particular communities. For the Latinx community, this text has been utilized—and continues to be utilized—as a resource from which identity formation can be gleaned. One example is Lara …
Kimberly Plaksin
“‘Civilized Industry” and Joint-Matriarchy in the Short Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman A highly influential feminist of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote her social treatise The Home: Its Work and Influence to outline her ideas surrounding women’s duties within the household and analyze their connection to gender relations both within the …
Alexa Dicken
Education Despite School: The Making and Breaking of Individualized Identity in YA Literature Formal education through school is commonly considered to be the primary source of necessary life skills for young adults. However, contemporary young adult literature often highlights the failure of formal education, which often serves at best as a place where knowledge is …
Greg Riggio
Fighting Dismemberment: Moonlight as Protest Literature In “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” James Baldwin declared that neither Native Son nor Uncle Tom’s Cabin should be defined as protest literature. Baldwin’s essay is skeptical of both works because he doubts either’s ability to engender social change for black Americans. Linking both works, Baldwin argues that Bigger of Native …
Sonia Adams
Making Social Justice Irresistible: Toni Cade Bambara’s Engaged Pedagogy, Editorship, and Literary Production My presentation “Making Social Justice Irresistible: Toni Cade Bambara’s Engaged Pedagogy, Editorship, and Literary Production” focuses on how Bambara, used literature as a tool for advocating social justice within academic institutions, white-dominant publishing industry, and marginalized communities. Through her roles as an …
Molly Mann
Racialized Appetites in Four Girls at Cottage City, Malinda Russell’s Domestic Cook Book, and Southern Soufflé Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’ novel Four Girls at Cottage City, Malinda Russell’s Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, and Erika Council’s food blog Southern Soufflé are texts that differ in form, genre, purpose, …
Forms of Justice 