Undergraduate English and Writing and Rhetoric Double Major Emma Legare was recently spotlighted for her wonderful work at the Jonnycake Center of Westerly. Read more about how she puts her English major skills to work through social media and public writing to be a valuable part of an organization which provides helpful social services for […]
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New PhD Student Afua Ansong publishes chapbook titled American Mercy
New PhD Student Afua Ansong recently completed her first publication, a chapbook titled American Mercy (Finishing Line Press, 2019).The book presents poetry that discusses what it means to have ownership over a space (both for animals and human beings) and the contention for the continuation of culture. Reviewers have called this “startling first collection” “both oracle […]
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Professors Mary Cappello and Jean Walton together with Professor James Morrison of Claremont McKenna College (a fellow alumni of the State University of New York at Buffalo English Doctoral Program) have written a collection of creative non-fiction essays bound together by these mutual years in upstate New York: Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration. Here is a taste […]
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We congratulate Associate Professor Peter Covino who was recently awarded a prestigious 2019 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for his translation of acclaimed Italian poet Dario Bellezza in his manuscript, “What Sex is Death?.” The project features the first English translations of about 100 poems – giving an overview of Bellezza’s life’s work. Read more about […]
Continue reading "Professor Peter Covino Awarded Prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship"PhD Alum Michele Meek publishes edited collection of contemporary female filmmaker essays, interviews, and manifestos
PhD Alum Dr. Michele Meek (Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Bridgewater State) has published Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles and Manifestos (Routledge, 2019). This collection, edited and introduced by Meek, presents original and previously-published essays, interviews, and manifestos from some of the most ground-breaking independent female filmmakers of the last 40 years. Learn […]
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Congratulations to PhD Student William Bowden, whose article “Process and Post-Process Writing in the Composition Classroom” has been posted to the website During Office Hours, an open access source for higher education teaching resources. He writes, “[w]hen I took similar classes as an undergraduate (even as an English Major) I felt distant from the content […]
Continue reading "PhD Student William Bowden’s Essay Featured on Open Access Higher Ed Teaching Site"PhD Candidate and Poet Charles Kell Wins Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
Charles Kell’s daring and incisive poetry collection, Cage of Lit Glass (which is also his PhD creative dissertation under the direction of Dr. Peter Covino), just won the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by distinguished judge, Kimiko Hahn. Charles’ book will be published in fall 2019. Autumn House is a major independent poetry press and they are especially well known […]
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Congratulations to Laura Marciano, whose poem, “Ash Weed,” was recently featured on the Poetry Foundation’s National podcast PoetryNow! The poem was part of “poem of the day,” hear by thousands of subscribers worldwide, and broadcasted on NPR across the country. The poem was recorded at Carnegie Hall this summer. She now has a Poetry Foundation […]
Continue reading "PhD Candidate and Poet Laura Marciano Featured by Poetry Foundation"PhD Alum Theo Greenblatt Publishes in Prestigious London Magazine and More
2018 is wrapping up with a bang for writer, teacher, and URI PhD, Theo Greenblatt. Her prose, traversing a range of genres from flash and short fiction to memoir to Montaignian essay, has caught the attention of numerous editors this year. In the early spring, Theo’s short story, “Solitaire” won first prize in the prestigious London […]
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PhD Alum Benjamin Hagen has published “Feeling Shadows: Virginia Woolf’s Sensuous Pedagogy” in a recent volume of PMLA (Volume 132, Number 2, March 2017). Benjamin received his PhD in English from URI in 2012, under the direction of Professor Stephen Barber, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of South Dakota.
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