Join me, TwitterFam, for my second Black Women Leaders of Prominence series March 28th at 6:00 pm, featuring Mrs. Lucy Anne Hurston, the niece of beloved author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston! Register today!
With Violin Justice,
Dr. Mel
Very excited for this “Critical Disability Studies” symposium later this month @RutgersSASN ❤️🔥Organized by the one and only @intermittentcat feat a disability justice collective student-led session, Sick of It! a disability inside/outside zine workshop, keynote by @DrSamiSchalk
CONGRATULATIONS to John Keene, faculty at the Rutgers @NewarkMFA program, for winning 2022 #NBA award in poetry! We are so proud of you! @EnglishNewark@RutgersSASN
John Keene accepts the National Book Award for Poetry, dedicating it in particular to "black, gay, queer, and trans writers, especially those we lost to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s." #NBAwards
Love National Book Award finalists Sharon Olds and John Keene? We do too! Watch them talk about transformative poems over at Poems That Changed Me. Sharon kicked off the 2022 season: https://t.co/M8dmbj4TAy
Congratulations to Rutgers–Newark Professor of Africana Studies & English affiliate Salamishah Tillet for winning the Pulitzer Prize for criticism!
Congratulations to Rutgers - Newark English Professor Alice Elliott Dark for this starred review of her new novel, Fellowship Point.
https://t.co/kT2t7Pghkl
Naomi Jackson is the recipient of the 2021 Juno Grant. The Juno Grant is a $5,000 unrestricted award to a writer who is a parent and who has participated in one of our Freya Project readings.
Congratulations to Professor Naomi Jackson on winning the 2021 Juno Grant from @TheFreyaProject 🎊. Professor Jackson is one of our newest faculty members in Fiction. Learn more about her work here ➡️ https://t.co/iQCnpHLRXI
📸 Photo by Tiffany Aveena @EnglishNewark@RutgersSASN
"Alone together, here we are, // stranded in our shared nowhere," poet and @EnglishNewark professor Rachel Hadas has a new poem in the @NewYorker about remote learning: https://t.co/soQnlZvNIT
Rutgers–Newark English Professor @cathyparkhong and her brilliant and timely book Minor Feelings are featured in the NYT’s Still Processing podcast.
https://t.co/DHiWXzSS1B
Congratulations to Rutgers - Newark English Professor Cathy Park Hong, whose brilliant book Minor Feelings makes the NYT's "Top Books of 2020" list.
https://t.co/B8dxttR2us