Robert Fanuzzi

Robert Fanuzzi, Ph. D. is an Associate Professor of English in St. John’s College. He develops academic programs and partnerships, educational and enrollment outreach strategies, and faculty research projects that connect the university to the community. He represents St. John’s in community affairs throughout the borough, including the civic engagement initiative, 30000 Degrees: College Readiness for a Stronger Staten Island.

Dr. Fanuzzi is also the co-founder and director of the Staten Island Alliance for Interdisciplinary Studies and is the director of the American Studies Interdisciplinary Minor in St. John’s College.

Dr. Fanuzzi’s undergraduate and graduate teaching fields include hemispheric American literature, African-American and Afro-Caribbean studies, US-Haitian literature, Critical Race Studies, and Critical University Studies. He is a winner of St. John’s University’s St. Vincent de Paul Teacher-Scholar Award and the Vincentian Institute for Social Action Award for Academic Service Learning for his many engaged, interdisciplinary courses in food studies and food justice; urban agriculture and sustainable development; urban design; and public history. In 2016, he was awarded a New York Council for the Humanities Action Grant for “Sandy Ground at St. John’s: Faces of the Underground Railroad,” a public humanities and educational outreach program that grew out of his long partnership with the Sandy Ground Historical Society.