Dr. Katherine Capshaw, Professor of English and Africana Studies and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, is featured as a panelist in the Wonderland Puppet Theater Symposium presented by The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. The symposium contains panels exploring segregation, the civil rights movement, women’s liberation, 1960s puppet theater, […]
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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. […]
Prof. Chris Vials Featured as Panelist in Election Forum
Professor Chris Vials was a featured panelist at the Old State House in Hartford to discuss the historical significance of the upcoming American elections. This was part of a forum co-sponsored by the Department of English titled Historic Firsts: The 2024 Presidential Election. This event was organized by Martha Cutter, Professor of English and Area […]
Prof. Ellen Carillo featured in U.S. News & World Report
Prof. Ellen Carillo, author of “The Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading,” has been featured in the U.S. News & World Report article “Why Some College Writing Professors Are Ditching Traditional Grading”.
Danielle Pieratti ’24 (Ph.D) Poems Featured in Piparote
English graduate student Danielle Pieratti ’24 (Ph. D) continues to make a name for herself abroad!
Marilyn Nelson wins Wallace Stevens Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Emerita Marilyn Nelson has won the prestigious award from the Academy of American Poets.
New UConn Writing Minor Featured in Daily Campus
In today’s article, the Daily Campus wrote about our new Writing Minor, which promotes an interdisciplinary awareness of composing practices, histories, and theories.
Karen Dahl ’99 (CLAS, Double Major English and French) UCONN Mag
The Biden administration wasted no time tapping this alum.
Department Reading Initiative Welcomes Tochi Onyebuchi for Talk
In a recent article, The Daily Campus wrote about the Equity and Social Justice Reading Group and their last sponsored speaker of the school year, Tochi Onyebuchi. During the talk, Onyebuchi spoke of his book Riot Baby and what it is like to write as a person of color. Created by English Professor Jason Courtmanche and English […]
Prof. Briona Jones, Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards
WGSS Professor Briona Jones was nominated for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for her work, Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought. Mouths of Rain is a finalist in the LGBTQ Anthology category for the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. The finalists were selected by a panel of over 60 literary professionals from […]