MA Alum Brett Rutherford has published one of his portfolio pieces, titled “Virginia Woolf’s Egyptomania: Echoes of The Book of the Dead in To the Lighthouse,” in the peer reviewed journal Woolf Studies Annual 24 (2018). For an abstract of the essay, click here.   

Laura Tetrault, literature and creative writing B.A. alum who is now pursuing a Ph.D. in writing and rhetoric at Louisville, recently won the 2017 CCCC Gloria Anzaldua Rhetorician Award. For more details read this interview which deals in large part with her sense of the relationship between getting a degree in the Humanities and pursuing work […]

4th Year PhD Student Catherine Winters, completed an Internship with the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities this past spring. Catherine worked on Outreach and Communications in support of Rhode Tour, a smartphone app that combines mapping, multimedia, and place-based storytelling to make Rhode Island history accessible, vital, and thematically connected. Rhode Tour is a joint-initiative of […]

Many congrats to Second Year PhD Student Heather Macpherson, whose essay on Muriel Rukeyser, “She Sings the Body Electric: Soundscape in Two ‘Songs’ by Muriel Rukeyser,” was accepted for publication and is now up on Eastern Michigan’s Muriel Rukyser: A Living Archive Scholarship page: http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/essay/heather-macpherson-sings-body-electric-soundscape-two-songs-muriel-rukeyser/.

Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), URI English Professor Kathleen Davis will lead a project to study ways to broaden career opportunities for graduate students in the humanities.