by Emily Graham, ’22 (CLAS) Considered to go into effect for Fall 2022, the UConn English department will no longer require students to follow the typical graduate school capstone: the written dissertation. Sitting down with Professor Victoria Ford Smith, Emily Graham discusses how the dissertation could evolve from 2022 onward, hoping to grant greater creative […]
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Professor Receives NEH Grant to Complete Book
by Emily Graham, ’22 (CLAS) Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in September 2019, Professor Martha J. Cutter spent most of her pandemic time investigating the life of Henry Box Brown, an American man who shipped himself from slavery to freedom in 1849. Culminating in the release of her […]
New Faculty featured in UConn Today
Assistant Professor Briona Jones and Associate Professor Erika Williams were recently featured in a UConn Today article, detailing how they will advance antiracism within their classrooms and around campus. Congratulations to Professor Jones and Professor Williams!
Alysa Auriemma ’13 (MA) Featured on Yahoo! News
Alysa Auriemma ’07 (SF) ’13 (MA) was recently featured in Yahoo! News to discuss her life as an educator and author in Connecticut. Congratulations, Alysa!
Department Accomplishments July 2022 – February 2023
Congratulations to our faculty, emeriti, and graduate students for their accomplishments between July 2022 and February 2023!
Danielle Pieratti ’24 (Ph.D) Poems Featured Abroad
We’d like to congratulate Danielle Pieratti ’24 (Ph.D), an English graduate student. Danielle’s selected, translated poems have become quite the sensation abroad in Europe. Taken from her first published collection, Fugitives, Pieratti’s poems are being featured in Albania’s cutting-edge online literary magazines Defekt – Teknik for the next few weeks, and Athenian magazine Τεφλόν (Teflon) has […]
Department Accomplishments June 2021 – January 2022
Our department accomplishments between June 2021 and January 2022, featuring faculty and graduate students.
Juliana Iacovelli ’22 (CLAS), ’23 (Neag) Accepted to English Journal
We’d like to send out a huge congratulations to Juliana Iacovelli ’22 (CLAS), ’23 (Neag), as their paper “The Importance of Queer Joy in the Classroom” has been accepted for publication in the National Council of Teachers of English’s journal, English Journal. Pursuing a dual degree in English and Secondary Education, Juliana wrote this paper […]
Grad Landings: Brian Sneeden ’19 (Ph.D) to Manchester Met University
We’d like to congratulate Brian Sneeden ’19 (Ph.D), as he has accepted an offer to join the faculty at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England. As a permanent Lecturer of English, he will be teaching in the MA programs for Publishing and Creative Writing. We’d also like to congratulate Penelope Pelizzon, major advisor, and Mary […]
Crystal Maldonado ’10 (CLAS) Featured in NPR Books We Love
UConn English alumna Crystal Maldonado ’10 (CLAS) recently had her debut novel, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, featured in the NPR segment, Books We Love. The novel is available in bookstores now. Congrats, Crystal!