Biography

Marybeth Reilly-McGreen is a Master’s student and a content strategist in URI’s Office of External Relations and Communications where she assists in website content development and writes features for the University’s homepage and alumni magazine.

Marybeth’s research interests are code-switching, doublespeak, and veiled language in subversive poetry and lyric. She is particularly interested in the literature of minoritized groups that addresses or interrogates the Western canon. 

Marybeth earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. She also earned a secondary school teaching certificate from Providence College. While a teacher in the Chariho (RI) School District, she developed an honors course titled Myth, Legend, and Folklore of Rhode Island. She is the author of three books on Rhode Island history and folklore.

Honors/awards

Marybeth won the international 2019 CASE Circle of Excellence Gold Award for web writing for the series Why Hip-Hop Matters. In 2020, she took the CASE Circle of Excellence Bronze Award for writing, series or collection category, for Playbill: URI Theatre. In 2021, she earned two CASE Circle of Excellence awards, a gold award for the series Stories of the First Amendment in Action, featuring Professor Carolyn Betensky and fellow grad students Afua Ansong and Jerriod Avant, as well as a bronze for Path to a Vaccine. 

In 2022, she won her fifth and six CASE Circle of Excellence Awards and her third and fourth Gold Awards for a profile of Dr. Anthony Fauci. In addition to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Marybeth has profiled Peabody Award-winners Christiane Amanpour ’83, Hon. ’95, and Vlad Duthiers ’91, Hon. ’17, Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Farragher ’73, Hon. ’17, and Tony Award-winner Andrew Burnap ’13.