Professor Gina Barreca, editor of the soon-to-be released Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Fiction, was highlighted in UConn Magazine for the collection, its origins in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the contributors with connections to the University of Connecticut. Details on how to get a copy of the new book are […]
Faculty
Marilyn Nelson, Professor Emerita of English, Featured by USA Today in Black YA Author List
Marilyn (Waniek) Nelson, Professor Emerita of English and Connecticut Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2006, was featured by USA Today in their list of 50 Black YA authors you should read according to database editor Mary Cadden. She was also featured in an article by UConn Magazine writer Peter Nelson with a biography of her career […]
Pam Bedore’s Picks for Apocalyptic Literature
Pam Bedore, Professor of Literature at the Avery Point campus, was featured in UConn Magazine for her expertise in apocalyptic literature, as well as her recommendations for those interested in getting into the genre. Congratulations Pam!
Welcome Incoming Faculty: Alex Gatten and Paige Walker
by Alexander Mika, ’21 (CLAS) Alex Gatten is a visiting assistant professor of English and the associate director of First-Year Writing at the University of Connecticut, where he also recently completed his PhD in English. His work explores the relationship between gender and sexuality and forms of writing, particularly in Romantic poetry and poetics, queer […]
Developing Digital Humanities at UConn: An Interview with Kyle Booten
by Alexander Mika, ’21 (CLAS) Kyle Booten was recently hired as an assistant professor in the Department of English in 2020. Booten is a computational poet with research interests that include literacy and media, computer generated texts, and computer mediated texts. In this interview, we discuss Booten’s post-doctoral work at the Neukom Institute at Dartmouth […]
Catching up with Hap Fairbanks
by Alexander Mika, ’21 (CLAS) After fifty years of teaching at UConn, A. Harris “Hap” Fairbanks retired from his associate professor position in Spring 2020. On a brisk and spotty-interneted December morning, I had the pleasure of speaking with him about his career, philosophy, and projects. Teaching, Researching, Writing According to Fairbanks, he knew […]
An Interview with Veronica Makowsky, Professor Emerita
by Alexander Mika, ’21 (CLAS) Professor Veronica Makowsky, an expert in women’s, ethnic, and Southern American literature, recently retired from our faculty. She received her BA from Connecticut College and her PhD from Princeton University. She then taught at Middlebury College and Louisiana State University before coming to UConn in 1993. Besides her most […]
Waking Up to the Earth with Connecticut Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson
by Alexander Mika, ’21 (CLAS) Professor Emerita and Connecticut Poet Laureate Margaret Gibson will be releasing two new books this year: an anthology of environmental poetry edited by Gibson called Waking Up to the Earth and a new collection of her own poems called The Glass Globe, her thirteenth book of poems. I recently had […]
“Racism in the Margins:” Confronting Biases in Writing Instruction
by Alexander Mika, ’21 (CLAS) In an effort to promote anti-racist writing practices across academic disciplines, Kathleen Tonry, associate professor of English and associate director of the University Writing Center, and Gabe Morrison, a PhD candidate in rhetoric and composition, are working on an initiative called “Racism in the Margins.” The project begins with a […]
UConn Professor and Alumnus Brian Sneeden Receives National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship
PER PRESS RELEASE BY PETER CONSTANTINE, DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM IN LITERARY TRANSLATION, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT – The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced that Brian Sneeden will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500 to translate Chimera, a collection of poetry by Phoebe Giannisi, into English. Sneeden is one of 24 Literature Translation […]