Cultural Rhetoric Speaker To Present

St. John’s University’s 2023 Cultural Rhetoric Speaker April Baker-Bell, Ph.D., a transdisciplinary teacher, researcher, and activist, will present on Wednesday, April 19, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in room 404 of St. Augustine Hall on the Queens, NY, campus.

This hybrid event—which can be attended in person or virtually through Webex—is the second annual offering of St. John’s Cultural Rhetoric Speaker Series, which features timely and leading-edge presentations from dynamic and nationally recognized scholars of cultural rhetoric. It is hosted by LaToya Lydia Sawyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of English; the Academic Center for Equity and Inclusion; St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and the Department of English.

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Dr. Baker-Bell is an Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and English Education in the Department of English and Department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University. A national leader in conversations on Black Language education, her research interrogates the intersections of Black language and literacies, anti-Black racism, and antiracist pedagogies, and is concerned with antiracist writing, critical media literacies, Black feminist-womanist storytelling, and self-preservation for Black women in academia, with an emphasis on early career Black women.