Renaissance Woman, Hear Her Roar Cynthia Leung found her voice at Brooklyn College. Now she’s ready to share it with the world. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith to Lecture at Brooklyn College on March 16 One of her first public appearances since 2020 will serve as an extraordinary complement to Brooklyn College’s Women’s History Month celebration. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith Serving as Brooklyn College’s Hess Scholar-in-Residence for 2022-23 The independent scholar has opened up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. On November 29, Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with Jeanne Theoharis to discuss selected clips from the newly released documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis’ research and book of the same name. Read More
English and American Studies Professor James Davis is New Professional Staff Congress President James Davis, a professor of English and American Studies who has been at the college for nearly 20 years, has become the new president of the Professional Staff Congress, the Read More
Conor Tomás Reed Awarded Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Adjunct Faculty Fellowship Conor Tomás Reed, an adjunct assistant professor in Africana Studies and American Studies at Brooklyn College, was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Adjunct Faculty Fellowship. The Career Enhancement Fellowship, Read More
Two Professors Pen Separate Books on Influential Caribbean Literary Figures Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean, by Prof. James Davis and Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon, by Prof. Venessa Pérez-Rosario shed new light on the late authors. Read More
Students Take Home Top Prizes in Labor Arts Contest Authors and artists win cash for writings, visual art on labor. Read More
