Sweet Tooth and Other Stories, the most recent book published by Prof. Serkan Görkemli, was awarded with multiple Foreword INDIES honors for 2024. The book was named a finalist in the Short Stories (Adult Fiction) category and received the Silver Award in the LGBTQ+ (Adult Fiction) category.
Awards
English Professors Anson and Simmons honored by UConn Provost
Professors April Anson and Kali Simmons, among other members of the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) faculty, were recently awarded this year’s Provost’s Award for Excellence in Community Engaged Scholarship (PAECES) in the Faculty Team category. This award recognizes their involvement with the Tribal Education Initiative (TEI). The TEI is a collaborative effort with the University of Connecticut […]
ENGL Ph.D Candidate Kiedra Taylor to Collaborate with Publisher
English Doctoral Student Kiedra Taylor is set to collaborate with publishing house Porch Water Press for the first in-print edition of Write On, Black Girl, an annual literary magazine featuring the work of Black girls in Connecticut. Her collaboration with Porch Water Press serves as an important step in uplifting the voices of Black woman writers. […]
English Senior Gianna Socci Tackles Frankenstein Research Project
Gianna Socci, an undergraduate senior double majoring in Political Science and English, recently completed a research project exploring the legal implications of Mary Shelley’s character Frankenstein. Gianna, with hopes of attending law school in the future, completed this project under the mentorship of English Professor Dr. Dwight Codr. She explored the possibilities of Frankenstein being held […]
Catherine Keough exhibition featured at Eric Carle Museum
Catherine Keough, graduate student in the English Ph.D. program, has curated a book exhibition now open at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA. After completing an internship over the summer, she worked on a book exhibition featuring people and plants within picture books, which will be available for viewing until the end of 2024. […]
English Dept. Members Named UCHI Fellows
The UConn Humanities Institute (UCHI) has announced their fellows for the 2024-25 academic year. Among them is four members of the Department of English community: Prof. Yohei Igarashi – Faculty Success Fellow Prof. Greggory Pierrot – Faculty Fellow Daniele Pierratti – Graduate Student, Dissertation Research Scholar Julia Wold – Graduate Student, Dissertation Research Scholar
Prof. Martha Cutter Wins MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award
Prof. Martha Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies and Director of American Studies, has won the MELUS (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024. This award recognizes individuals for their scholarship work, as well as service to the MELUS organization.
Prof. Fred Roden wins AAUP Award for Teaching Excellence
Prof. Fred Roden, Professor of English on the Stamford campus, has won the AAUP Award for Teaching Excellence: Career. Per the AAUP website, “This award recognizes classroom instruction and advising and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students.”
UConn Today – Terrance Hayes to Read as 58th Wallace Stevens Poet
UConn Today featured the upcoming poetry reading by Terrance Hayes, who will be visiting UConn on March 27th for the 58th Wallace Stevens Poetry Program.
Mary K Bercaw Edwards wins NEH Grant
Mary K Bercaw Edwards, Professor of English and Maritime Studies on the Avery Point campus, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her work as a founding member of the Melville Society Cultural Project, and as co-director of “Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and the World of Whaling in the Digital Age.”