PhD candidate and accomplished thespian Cherie Rowe has been working triple duty this semester, as she works on her research, teaches as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and acts in “Hamlet” at the Gamm Theatre in Warwick. To read more about Cherie’s theater background, see this write-up by Megan Wallitsch in The Good 5 Cent Cigar. […]
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The department would like to congratulate PhD student Olivia Thomakos for her appearance in the finals of the 3 Minute Thesis competition. Her talk, entitled “Poetry Beyond Sight: Blindness, Empathy, and Authentic Authorship” can be viewed in full on our Instagram page.
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The department would like to congratulate Professor David Faflik on the release of the second of two books he is publishing this year, entitled: “The Literary Gift in Early America.” It is available now, through Stanford University Press!
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PhD Alum and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Afua Ansong has won a $30,000 fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund. According to the Providence Journal, “the award will help Ansong complete the manuscript for her novel in verse titled “Adinkra: Farewell.” The work, which she hopes to finish […]
Continue reading "Congratulations to PhD Alum Afua Ansong on winning prestigious grant"The Department of English and Creative writing is partnering with The Department of Modern and Classical Languages to present a symposium entitled: Literary Culture, Translation, and the Other. This event will take place on Wednesday April 9th and Thursday April 10th on the third floor of the URI Library in the Galanti Lounge. The event will […]
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Congratulations to Ghazal Nessari Poortak, whose poems “Salt” and “I Love” are featured in the February issue of Motif Magazine.
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The department would like to congratulate Professor David Faflik on the release of the first of two books he is publishing this year, entitled: “That Futebol Feeling.” It is available now, through Temple University Press!
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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.
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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. […]
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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.
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