Our Mission
What is Intersections?
Intersections is SJU’s student-led digital journal of the First Year Writing Program in St. John’s College’s Institute for Core Studies. Our journal’s primary aim is to publish and showcase outstanding student compositions, audio/visual work, and artwork from First Year Writing courses each academic year.
WHO ARE WE?
Intersections’s editorial board consists of previous First Year Writing students who have yet to graduate from St. John’s University. All of these devoted students were nominated by their previous First Year Writing professors in February 2021, based on the consistency of quality in their written work. Some had participated in either live or virtual First Year Writing Program’s post-semester “Celebration of Student Work.” Others simply want to work collaboratively on a student-led publication. All of them share a true passion and enthusiasm for writing.
WHY WAS INTERSECTIONS MADE?
Intersections also provides a permanent digital showcase for many compositions and audio-visual presentations created for St. John’s First Year Writing Program. These are pieces about intersectional identity, cross-cultural communication, and social justice.
WHAT IS OUR VISION?
Intersections provides opportunities for students to be published and/or have experience on a publication board early on in their academic careers. Intersections is hard evidence of FYW’s celebration of our school’s plurality of social and cultural identities, our Englishes, our voices, our vernaculars, and above all, our stories.
WHY ARE WE DIFFERENT?
In academia, publication of undergraduate work is often limited to that of juniors and seniors. Intersections provides a welcome opportunity for early college students to publish their work.
Our Team!
The Faculty Advisory Committee
First-Year Writing Assistant Professor Harry Ewan
First-Year Writing Professor Sophie Bell
First-Year Writing Program Coordinator and Associate Professor Sharon Marshall