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 […]
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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 […]
Robert D. Kaplan ’73 (CLAS) Publishes New Book
We’d like to congratulate Robert D. Kaplan ’73, who has recently published his latest book, Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age, with Penguin Random House. Furthermore, we are honored that Kaplan graciously dedicated his work to two of his UConn professors: David Leeming and the late Charles Boer. You […]
Grad Landings: Daniel Pfeiffer ’22 (Ph.D) to Choice Magazine
We’d like to congratulate Daniel Pfeiffer ’22 (Ph.D), as he has just accepted a position as Social Sciences Editor for Choice Magazine, the publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which is a division of the American Library Association. We’d also like to extend congratulations to Dan’s dissertation committee: major advisor Associate Professor […]
Grad Landings: Mollie Kervick, ’22 (Ph.D) to West Point
Mollie Kervick, ’22 (Ph.D) has just accepted a two-year position at West Point as a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow. We are so proud of Mollie and her committee: Rachael Lynch, major advisor, and Mary Burke and Margaret Breen, associate advisors. Many congratulations!
Special Thanks to Emily Graham ’22 (CLAS), Newsletter Author
We’d like to thank Emily Graham, Class of 2022, for being this year’s author of Off the Page. We asked her a couple of our favorite questions – Why English and Why UConn – and here are her answers. We wish her the best of luck as she leaves the Nutmeg State to continue her […]