Biography

Dr. David St. John teaches classes in literature, creative writing, and composition. His specializations include poetry writing, postcolonial theory, the environmental humanities, and East Asian / Asian American literature. His creative and academic work, published as “D.E. St. John,” has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Atlanta Review, American Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interventions, and Cutthroat. His poetry collection, Change Faster, was named a finalist for the 2025 Raz-Schumaker Prize.  His recent scholarly interests include: Taiwanese metafiction, eco-poetics and memory, and narrative design. 

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• PhD, English Literature, Georgia State University Self-designated concentration: Global Anglophone literature 2020
• MA, English, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 2014
• BA, English, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 2005

Recent Publications

• “Mobilizing the Past: The God of Small Things’ Automotive Ecologies,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol 59, iss.1, pgs 1-14, 2023

• “Our Toxic Transpacific: Hydro-Colonialism, Nuclearization, and Radioactive Identities in Post-Fukushima Literature.” American Studies, 60(3/4), March 2022

• "Writing Agential Landscapes: Gendered Environments in the Poetry of Derek Walcott and Audre Lorde," – Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. March 2019.