Katherine Robbins (BA candidate in English) will be presenting “What Still Haunts Us: Victorian Spiritualism in Contemporary Novels” at a virtual undergraduate and graduate conference titled Re-imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians in April at Queen’s University, Canada.

Associate Professor Peter Covino has won a prestigious prize and publication contract for his translation from the Italian of What Sex Is Death: Selected Poems of Dario Bellezza.

Eve Potvin (ABM candidate in English, May 2025) will be presenting “The Dame, the Cross-dresser, and Rochester: Deception and Trans Perception in Jane Eyre” in March at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference in Cincinnati. Congratulations, Eve!

Professor Christine Mok teaches Contemporary Literature, Performing Race, The Young Adult Novel, and many other courses in the English department of the University of Rhode Island — but did you know that she is also a highly successful dramaturg?  In this video you can hear her speak about the latest play she has worked on:  […]

PhD student, Shanee Stepakoff’s forthcoming collection of poetry, Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone will be published by Bucknell University Press and out in June 2021. She writes about it in a guest blog post for the press that can be found here. Stepakoff also recently published “Hiding in Plain Sight: […]

Afua Ansong’ Poetry Chapbook Manuscript, Try Kissing God, has been published as part of the prestigious African Poetry Book Fund Series edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani. The manuscript considers themes of identity and the relationship between the sovereign and man in African diaspora culture. The completion of this manuscript was supported by funds […]