Amy Fehr, who successfully defended her dissertation in May, has just landed a position as Organizer/Representative for UAW Local 2322 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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Grad Landings: Matthew Shelton ’15 (MA) ’19 (PhD)
Matthew Shelton has just accepted a one-year renewable position as Lecturer in Irish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Celtic Studies Program.
Grad Landings: William Biel ’22 (PhD)
Will Biel, who successfully defended his dissertation this spring, has just accepted a two-year post-doctoral position in English at West Point starting in the fall.
Grad Landings: Micah Goodrich ’22 (PhD) to Boston University
Micah Goodrich has recently accepted a one-year position as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University.
Julianna Iacovelli ’22 (CLAS), ’23 (Neag) Published in English Journal
As recognized in an earlier post, Julianna Iacovelli’s essay, “The Importance of Queer Joy in the Classroom” was successfully selected by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) for their award-winning English Journal. Iacovelli originally wrote the essay for Prof. Jason Courtmanche’s Spring 2021 Advanced Composition for Prospective Teachers class. It has since been […]
Katherine Jimenez Earns BOLD Scholarship
Please join the English Department in celebrating Katherine Jimenez ’24 (English & Journalism, CLAS) as the very first English major to be awarded a BOLD Scholarship at UCONN. Congratulations, Katherine, on this incredible achievement!
Grad Landing: Anna Ziering to Oglethorpe University
Anna Ziering ’22 (English Ph.D.) will join Oglethorpe University in Atlanta this fall as Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, formally affiliated with African American Studies. Her committee chair is Chris Vials and her associate advisors are Greg Pierrot and Micki McElya (History). Congratulations, Anna! We wish you all the best in your future […]
Prof. Briona Jones wins Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
We are proud to recognize Briona Jones for winning the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. Briona won this award for her anthology, Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought. Congratulations, Briona!
Prof. Jason Courtmanche Wins Alumni Faculty Award
It was announced this month that Prof. Jason Courtmanche has won this year’s Alumni Faculty Excellence Award in the Undergraduate Teaching category. Congratulations, Professor Courtmanche!
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 […]