Professor Grégory Pierrot, Stamford campus, has received a faculty research grant from UConn’s Africana Studies Institute. This grant will go towards building a multi-national project to create and curate a free-access, digital scholarly edition, and translation into English, of the French-language Revue des Colonies. Congratulations, Prof. Pierrot!
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Michael Pontacoloni wins Southern Review Award for Poetry
Congratulations to Michael Pontacoloni, ’09 (CLAS), who won the Southern Review’s Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Poetry for his poem, “Antique Map of Dorchester Neck.” The poem is available in the Southern Review’s Summer 2022 edition.
Kiedra Taylor wins CETL University Teaching Award
Congratulations to Kiedra Taylor, ’24 (Ph.D.), who has won the 2023 CETL Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award! Read more about Kiedra’s work with the Connecticut Writing Project and the Write On, Black Girl! magazine.
UConn English Junior named 2023 Beinecke Scholar
Congratulations to Katherine “Kat” Jimenez, ’24 (CLAS), who has officially been named a 2023 Beinecke Scholar! Kat will become the university’s first student with this accolade, which includes $35,000 in scholarships. Read Kat’s nomination biography on the ONSF website.
Grad Landing: Margaret Ascenzo to GWU
Congratulations to Margaret Ascenzo, ’20 (Ph. D), who has accepted a position as Instructional Technologist at George Washington University in Washington, DC! Special thanks to Margaret’s committee: Charles Mahoney (major advisor), Sarah Winter, and Yohei Igarashi.
Latin American Representation in Children’s Literature
Ph.D. candidate Luisana Duarte Armendáriz discusses her recent award-winning book and how the need for representation guided her in creating these stories.
The Practicality of English in Law
Alumna Holly Wonneberger ’14 (CLAS) discusses how she is using the experience of her English degree to succeed in practicing law.
English Majors Complete Summer Research Apprenticeship
Undergraduate students Madison Bigelow ’24 (CLAS) and Joanne Biju ’23 (CLAS) discuss their experience in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience (SHARE) Summer Apprenticeship.
Marilyn Nelson wins Wallace Stevens Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Emerita Marilyn Nelson has won the prestigious award from the Academy of American Poets.
Disability Visibility at UConn with Professor Brenda Brueggemann
Aetna Chair of Writing Brenda Brueggemann and alumni Jess Gallagher ’22 (CLAS) and Matt Iannantuoni ’22 (CLAS) discuss their research in the Mansfield Training School and its local significance, highlighting the history of disability visibility in the UConn community.