Faculty Pedagogy Workshop with Rommi Smith at the College of Staten Island, CUNY

Matt Brim, Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program invites you to an interdisciplinary Faculty Pedagogy Workshop. The event will explore the use of Blues and Jazz methodologies to incorporate the study of Black Queer Women into your college classroom. All instructional faculty are encouraged to attend. The event will be held on Tuesday, April 17th, from 2:30-4:15pm in 2S-215 at the College o f Staten Island, CUNY. 
The acclaimed poet, performer, and researcher Rommi Smith will facilitate the workshop. Smith is an international writer who has held prestigious writing residencies for institutions ranging from the British Council to the BBC. Smith is the inaugural British Parliamentary Writer-in-Residence and inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Keats’ House, London. She was British Council Poet-in-Residence at California State University in Los Angeles, working with the university’s English department and its Jazz orchestra to curate a performative response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Smith’s clients include: The Royal Academy of Art and The Royal Opera House, London. She has presented original work at the Segal Theatre, NYC and the Shomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.