Gianna Socci, an undergraduate senior double majoring in Political Science and English, recently completed a research project exploring the legal implications of Mary Shelley’s character Frankenstein. Gianna, with hopes of attending law school in the future, completed this project under the mentorship of English Professor Dr. Dwight Codr. She explored the possibilities of Frankenstein being held […]
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Assistant Prof. Kali Simmons Featured on CBC podcast Unreserved
Kali Simmons, Assistant Professor of English and Social Critical Inquiry, was recently featured on a podcast episode of Unreserved from the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Unreserved is a radio program dedicated to uplifting and amplifying indigenous voices and causes. Prof. Simmons will be teaching the work of the other featured guests on the episode, Shane Hawk […]
Dr. Katherine Capshaw Featured as Panelist at Puppetry Museum
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, […]
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 […]
UConn Today – Terrance Hayes to Read as 58th Wallace Stevens Poet
UConn Today featured the upcoming poetry reading by Terrance Hayes, who will be visiting UConn on March 27th for the 58th Wallace Stevens Poetry Program.
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 […]
Write On, Black Girl! Initiative Invites Black Girls to Speak Their Truth
by Emily Graham, ’22 (CLAS) In conjunction with the newly-established literary magazine of the same name, PhD candidate Kiedra Taylor, ‘24 hosted Write On, Black Girl!, a writing retreat dedicated to the crafting of narratives written by Black girls and young women. Sitting down with Emily Graham, Ms. Taylor spoke of how the retreat went; […]
On the Town: Learning by Traveling at UConn Stamford
by Emily Graham, ’22 (CLAS) Taking advantage of UConn Stamford’s great location, Professor Fred Roden has coordinated field trips with his students for years — visiting art exhibits, Broadway, and more. Emily Graham recently met with Professor Roden over Zoom to talk about the trips themselves and, more importantly, what students get out of learning […]
Reimagining the Traditional Dissertation
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 […]