Congratulations to Ghazal Nessari Poortak, whose poems “Salt” and “I Love” are featured in the February issue of Motif Magazine.

Congratulations to our alum Charles Kell, whose poem “My Broken Tooth” is featured on the Poetry Daily site. It is from his collection “Ishmael Mask,” which was published in 2023.

The department would like to recognize Leanne Oden, who is the recipient of a graduate travel grant from the Center for Humanities for Fall ‘24 and is presenting her paper on a contemporary reading of Three Guineas at the International Virginia Woolf Society panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture in late February.  […]

The department would like to recognize PhD student Holly Allen for her recently published book review of Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing by Lee Edelman. The review appears in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Volume 26, Number 4, 2024, published by Penn State University Press.

The department would like to recognize PhD student Ali Ghaderi for his recent scholarship, which includes: -Presenting the paper “Disintegration of Bodies in Music: Orpheus and Eurydice’s Prosodic Doom Becoming Salvation in Luthien’s Rescue of Beren” at Oxonmoot 2024 (the Tolkien Society’s annual conference) -Presenting the paper “Tolkien’s Heritage and Screen Adaptations: the Necessity of […]

  Our faculty and graduate students have been busy, publishing multiple pieces in the February, January, and November issues of Motif Magazine.   November (Indigenous People’s Issue): MA student Wanda Hopkins was the guest editor for this issue, and also has an article on foraging on page 7. January (The Environment & The Future): PhD […]