BA Alum Penelope Cray recently won the prestigious Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose from Pleiades Press for her book, Miracles Come On Mondays. The book will appear next year. The judges describe the book as follows: “These dark fractured fables tell stories of strange texture; stories about characters trying to find their way amid currents both small and large […]
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PhD Student Damiano Consilvio’s article “Jawn” will be published in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
PhD Student Damiano Consilvio’s article “Jawn” will be published in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. It traces the word jawn’s etymology, semantic bleaching, and migration from Old French to Urban African American Vernacular English in New York and Philadelphia.
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Media Contact: Tony LaRoche, 401-874-4894 KINGSTON, R.I. – July 11, 2019 – Molly Volanth Hall, a University of Rhode Island doctoral candidate in English, has won a coveted Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship in European Studies for her study exploring landscape representation in modernist literature of World War I. The Council for European Studies (CES) awards about 10 […]
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Both the English department and Harrington school should be proud that these students’ hard work and original scholarship has garnered them permanent positions at a variety of schools! Congrats to the 2015 to 2019 grads – and good luck with your burgeoning careers! Lindy E. Briggette (2018), Assistant Professor of the Practice of English at […]
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These past few years have been some outstanding ones for our PhD grads in the realm of job placement – due to the hard work, talent, and innovation that characterizes URI English PhD grads! Let’s all give a warm congratulations to the following 2015 to 2019 graduates. We will miss you in these halls but […]
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The 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference held Saturday April 13 at 8:00am to 6:00pm at the University of Rhode Island is a day of interdisciplinary scholarship. Graduate Students from all disciplines and a plethora of universities will come together to discuss some pressing contemporary challenges, questions, and solutions. This event will include a Keynote presentation […]
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URI English BA Alum Em Phelps has published their second work, an essay titled “Resemble/Reassemble” which they composed and workshopped in our own ENG305 course. The essay is part of Nat.Brut‘s “Beyond Resilience Portfolio.” Read the piece here. Em is currently enrolled in Columbia College Chicago’s MFA in Creative Writing program where they are studying creative […]
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PhD Alum Dr. Rebekah Greene has accepted a position with Campus Labs, a software company focused on higher education and based in Buffalo, as a Campus Adoption Consultant on their Institutional Effectiveness team. Dr. Greene is also the winner of the 2019 Joseph R. Dunlop Memorial Fellowship from the William Morris Society. Read more about Dr. […]
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URI English undergrad alum Dr. Laura Tetreault wins the MLA Mina Shaughnessy prize together with the co-editor of her book, Crossing Divides: Exploring Translingual Writing Pedagogies and Programs (Utah State Univ. Press, 2017). Since graduating from URI, Tetreault has earned her doctorate from University of Louisville and accepted a tenure track position in Writing & […]
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Jenna Guitar, English Doctoral Candidate and Instructor of Gender & Women’s Studies received the 2018 Graduate Assistant Teaching Excellence Award for her teaching in the GWS department. She has been an integral member of the GWS teaching team for several years now, and is involved in work done across campus to foster equality and tolerance […]
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