Congratulations go to Mohamed Anis Ferchichi for his recent publication, “The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in Richard II” in the multidisciplinary Inquiries Journal.
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PhD student Jerriod Avant has been selected as one of the guest editors for The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series this summer. Jerriod is one of six guest editors who will be curating selections from black poets for the digital series. Jerriod’s curation will appear from August 17th to the 28th.
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PhD candidate James Ferry has published “Why I Go to Prison: A Teacher’s Plea for (Societal) Clemency” in Academe Magazine. The article is a follow-up to his well-received piece, “How the Academy Saved My Soul–and Maybe My Life,” published previously in the same venue. James teaches college courses to incarcerated students; he hopes to make […]
Continue reading "PhD candidate James Ferry has published “Why I Go to Prison: A Teacher’s Plea for (Societal) Clemency” in Academe Magazine."PhD student Audrey Heffers, who writes under Audrey T. Carroll, recently published her craft essay “Authenticating Detail and Disability Narratives” in So to Speak as a part of their limited series on language and intersectionality. This craft essay focuses on disability and representation in literature through the lens of verisimilitude; it developed from Audrey’s critical and pedagogical […]
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In an article recently published by the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, PhD student Damiano Consilvio discusses the etymology of the slang word “jawn” and some of its deeper, global roots. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/jawn/
Continue reading "Damiano Consilvio discusses the etymology of the slang word “jawn” and some of its deeper, global roots."Heather J. Macpherson, PhD student in Literature (Creative Nonfiction), recently published her essay, “Hotel Pool, or, Gay Subject Matter” at The Doctor T J Eckleburg Review. Heather read this particular piece at URI’s Contemporary Arts Festival in May. She is a student of Dr. Mary Cappello.
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Afua Ansong’s chapbook “Try Kissing God” will be published as part of the New Generation of African Poets (2020). This chapbook explores the Adinkra symbols that mention or discuss God, divinity, and kingship, and was greatly supported by EGRA and CFH grants she received during the 2018-19 academic year. This chapbook is part of Afua’s […]
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BA and MA alum Don Rodrigues (PhD Vanderbilt) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Memphis as Assistant Professor of Transatlantic Seventeenth-Century Literature in the Department of English.
Continue reading "Congrats to BA/MA Alum Don Rodrigues for accepting Tenure Track Job at U of Memphis"Recent PhD grad Kara Watts has published an article, “Designing women: modernist mass culture and the formation of the female body,” in the March 2019 issue of the peer reviewed journal Feminist Modernist Studies. According to the abstract, “This essay argues for charm as feminist heuristic through which we may re-examine contemporary theories of gendered embodiment. […]
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PhD Student Damiano Consilvio’s workshop titled “All Language is Beautiful: Holding Onto Your Dialect” was selected for presentation at this year’s URI D.I.V.E RI 2019 Conference in March 2019.
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