Students, colleagues, administrators, and past winners of the award gathered last Thursday to honor Dr. Andrea Yates, who has taught courses in the English department (as well as other humanities courses) for nearly 20 years. Department Chair Carolyn Betensky, Dean Jen Riley, and adoring former students were among those who took to the podium to […]

PhD candidate and accomplished thespian Cherie Rowe has been working triple duty this semester, as she works on her research, teaches as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and acts in “Hamlet” at the Gamm Theatre in Warwick. To read more about Cherie’s theater background, see this write-up by Megan Wallitsch in The Good 5 Cent Cigar. […]

The department would like to congratulate PhD student Olivia Thomakos for her appearance in the finals of the 3 Minute Thesis competition. Her talk, entitled “Poetry Beyond Sight: Blindness, Empathy, and Authentic Authorship” can be viewed in full on our Instagram page.

PhD Alum and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Afua Ansong has won a $30,000 fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation’s Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund. According to the Providence Journal, “the award will help Ansong complete the manuscript for her novel in verse titled “Adinkra: Farewell.” The work, which she hopes to finish […]

Congratulations to Ghazal Nessari Poortak, whose poems “Salt” and “I Love” are featured in the February issue of Motif Magazine.

Congratulations to our alum Charles Kell, whose poem “My Broken Tooth” is featured on the Poetry Daily site. It is from his collection “Ishmael Mask,” which was published in 2023.

The department would like to recognize Leanne Oden, who is the recipient of a graduate travel grant from the Center for Humanities for Fall ‘24 and is presenting her paper on a contemporary reading of Three Guineas at the International Virginia Woolf Society panel at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture in late February.  […]