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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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/.