The Terra Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to Professor Brenda Jo Brueggemann and her team for their exhibit/curation project, Shaped by the American Dream: Deaf History through Deaf Art.
News
Veronica Schorr ’19 (CLAS) to Release Debut Chapbook of Poetry
A 2018-2019 Collins Literary Prize in Poetry winner, Schorr will release her first poetry chapbook, Conscious Blue, in October 2021 with Finishing Line Press.
Center for Career Development Features Bilal Tajildeen ’14 (CLAS)
The UConn English graduate spoke to UConn about his career path and his new position as the Manager of Membership and Culture for the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy.
Rylee Thomas ’24 (CLAS) Named a Holster Scholar
Rylee Thomas ’24 (CLAS), a rising sophomore studying English and Communication with a business minor, was recently named a Holster Scholar for the 2020-2021 school year. The Holster Scholar Program is an opportunity available to first-year Honors students that allows recipients to pursue independent research, design, or creative projects in the summer before sophomore year. […]
Grad Landings: Arpita Mandal to Mount Holyoke College
Arpita Mandal ’21 (CLAS, Ph.D) has accepted a one-year visiting lecture position at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. She will be teaching twentieth and twenty-first century transnational literature. In addition, we’d like to congratulate Arpita’s committee: major advisor Eleni Coundouriotis, as well as associate advisors Bhakti Shringarpure and Patrick Hogan. Congratulations, Arpita!
Graduate Student Anna Ziering wins Scholar Award
Anna Ziering, an English Ph.D. student and 2021-2022 UCHI Dissertation Research Scholar, was chosen as one of the 100 doctoral students in the USA and Canada to receive a $20,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. This award was established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women who are pursuing a doctoral-level degree at […]
Victoria Sun ’21 (CLAS) Featured in UConn Today
Victoria Sun, a recent graduate with the Class of 2021, was featured in UConn Today to discuss why she chose to be an English major and how it will help her pursue goals in the years to come. Congratulations and best of luck on future endeavors!
In Memoriam, Spring 2021
by Emily Graham ’22 (CLAS) In this issue of the newsletter, we honor three members of the UConn English community who have passed during this year. While they might not be with us in person, their insight and passion for literature and writing has left a lasting impression. Gabriella Schlesinger, 84, passed away in […]
Finding Signs of Life: An Interview with Fred Roden
by Alex Mika ’21 (CLAS) In his musical, Company, Stephen Sondheim describes Manhattan as “A city of strangers. Some come to stare, some to stay, and every day, some go away…” Professor Fred Roden, who lives in Manhattan and teaches at the UConn Stamford campus, found himself “landlocked” when the pandemic swept through and closed […]
Remote Reporting: An Interview with Ali Oshinskie
As an undergraduate English major, Oshinskie started her own podcast, “Professors are People Too.” She now works with Connecticut Public Radio and Report for America as a reporter for the Naugatuck River Valley region.