Upcoming Lecture...

The Colloquium Series of the SJC Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Program in American Studies present a lecture by 

Dr. Rachel Adams

"Reading for Ability: Disability Studies, Aesthetics, and the Art of Judith Scott."

Thursday, February 17th @ 4:00 P.M. 

Writing Institute

St. Augustine Hall Room 150

Rachel Adams is Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Her two areas of interest are transnational American literature and culture, and Disability studies. Her talk comes from a new research project on intellectual disability and the arts.

For more information please contact Dr. Robert Fanuzzi, fanuzzir@stjohns.edu.