Professor Christine Mok On Creative Team of Critically Acclaimed Play - Professor Christine Mok teaches Contemporary Literature, Performing Race, The Young Adult Novel, and many other courses in the English department of the University of Rhode Island — but did you know that she is also a highly successful dramaturg? In this video you can hear her speak about the latest play she has worked on: […]- Literatures of the World: A Marathon Reading, November 15, 2022 - Literatures of the World: A Marathon Reading will take place on Tuesday, November 15th, 4:00 – 7:00 pm at the 193 Coffeehouse located in the Memorial Union. Students and faculty read excerpts of memorable literary works from around the world in connection with International Education Week. Readings will be chosen by the participants and will […]
PhD student, Shanee Stepakoff to publish her collection of poetry “Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone” - PhD student, Shanee Stepakoff’s forthcoming collection of poetry, Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone will be published by Bucknell University Press and out in June 2021. She writes about it in a guest blog post for the press that can be found here. Stepakoff also recently published “Hiding in Plain Sight: […]
PhD Candidate Afua Ansong’ Poetry Chapbook “Trying Kissing God” has been published in African Poetry Book Fund Series - Afua Ansong’ Poetry Chapbook Manuscript, Try Kissing God, has been published as part of the prestigious African Poetry Book Fund Series edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani. The manuscript considers themes of identity and the relationship between the sovereign and man in African diaspora culture. The completion of this manuscript was supported by funds […]
PhD candidate Mohamed Anis Ferchichi’s recent publication “The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in Richard II” - Congratulations go to Mohamed Anis Ferchichi for his recent publication, “The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in Richard II” in the multidisciplinary Inquiries Journal.
PhD student Jerriod Avant is Guest Curator for the Summer 2020 Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day - PhD student Jerriod Avant has been selected as one of the guest editors for The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series this summer. Jerriod is one of six guest editors who will be curating selections from black poets for the digital series. Jerriod’s curation will appear from August 17th to the 28th. 
PhD candidate James Ferry has published “Why I Go to Prison: A Teacher’s Plea for (Societal) Clemency” in Academe Magazine. - PhD candidate James Ferry has published “Why I Go to Prison: A Teacher’s Plea for (Societal) Clemency” in Academe Magazine. The article is a follow-up to his well-received piece, “How the Academy Saved My Soul–and Maybe My Life,” published previously in the same venue. James teaches college courses to incarcerated students; he hopes to make […]- PhD student Audrey Heffers publishes her craft essay “Authenticating Detail and Disability Narratives” - PhD student Audrey Heffers, who writes under Audrey T. Carroll, recently published her craft essay “Authenticating Detail and Disability Narratives” in So to Speak as a part of their limited series on language and intersectionality. This craft essay focuses on disability and representation in literature through the lens of verisimilitude; it developed from Audrey’s critical and pedagogical […]
Damiano Consilvio discusses the etymology of the slang word “jawn” and some of its deeper, global roots. - In an article recently published by the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, PhD student Damiano Consilvio discusses the etymology of the slang word “jawn” and some of its deeper, global roots. https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/jawn/- Heather J. Macpherson recently published her essay, “Hotel Pool, or, Gay Subject Matter” at The Doctor T J Eckleburg Review - Heather J. Macpherson, PhD student in Literature (Creative Nonfiction), recently published her essay, “Hotel Pool, or, Gay Subject Matter” at The Doctor T J Eckleburg Review. Heather read this particular piece at URI’s Contemporary Arts Festival in May. She is a student of Dr. Mary Cappello.
- Afua Ansong’s chapbook “Try Kissing God” to be published in the New Generation of African Poets (2020) - Afua Ansong’s chapbook “Try Kissing God” will be published as part of the New Generation of African Poets (2020). This chapbook explores the Adinkra symbols that mention or discuss God, divinity, and kingship, and was greatly supported by EGRA and CFH grants she received during the 2018-19 academic year. This chapbook is part of Afua’s […]
Congrats to BA/MA Alum Don Rodrigues for accepting Tenure Track Job at U of Memphis - BA and MA alum Don Rodrigues (PhD Vanderbilt) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Memphis as Assistant Professor of Transatlantic Seventeenth-Century Literature in the Department of English.- Recent PhD Grad Kara Watts Publishes Article on Modernist Women’s Bodies in Peer Reviewed Journal Feminist Modernist Studies - Recent PhD grad Kara Watts has published an article, “Designing women: modernist mass culture and the formation of the female body,” in the March 2019 issue of the peer reviewed journal Feminist Modernist Studies. According to the abstract, “This essay argues for charm as feminist heuristic through which we may re-examine contemporary theories of gendered embodiment. […]
- PhD Student Damiano Consilvio presents on language and dialect at 2019 DIVE Conference - PhD Student Damiano Consilvio’s workshop titled “All Language is Beautiful: Holding Onto Your Dialect” was selected for presentation at this year’s URI D.I.V.E RI 2019 Conference in March 2019.
- BA Alum Penelope Cray wins Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose for her forthcoming book, Miracles Come On Mondays - BA Alum Penelope Cray recently won the prestigious Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose from Pleiades Press for her book, Miracles Come On Mondays. The book will appear next year. The judges describe the book as follows: “These dark fractured fables tell stories of strange texture; stories about characters trying to find their way amid currents both small and large […]
- PhD Student Damiano Consilvio’s article “Jawn” will be published in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia - PhD Student Damiano Consilvio’s article “Jawn” will be published in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. It traces the word jawn’s etymology, semantic bleaching, and migration from Old French to Urban African American Vernacular English in New York and Philadelphia.
- Molly Hall wins coveted fellowship for dissertation on landscape representation in modernist literature - Media Contact: Tony LaRoche, 401-874-4894 KINGSTON, R.I. – July 11, 2019 – Molly Volanth Hall, a University of Rhode Island doctoral candidate in English, has won a coveted Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship in European Studies for her study exploring landscape representation in modernist literature of World War I. The Council for European Studies (CES) awards about 10 […]
Congratulations to all the recent Writing and Rhetoric PhDs landing jobs! - Both the English department and Harrington school should be proud that these students’ hard work and original scholarship has garnered them permanent positions at a variety of schools! Congrats to the 2015 to 2019 grads – and good luck with your burgeoning careers! Lindy E. Briggette (2018), Assistant Professor of the Practice of English at […]- Congrats to Recent Grads Landing Tenure Track Positions - These past few years have been some outstanding ones for our PhD grads in the realm of job placement – due to the hard work, talent, and innovation that characterizes URI English PhD grads! Let’s all give a warm congratulations to the following 2015 to 2019 graduates. We will miss you in these halls but […]
- Graduate Student Conference – April 13th - The 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference held Saturday April 13 at 8:00am to 6:00pm at the University of Rhode Island is a day of interdisciplinary scholarship. Graduate Students from all disciplines and a plethora of universities will come together to discuss some pressing contemporary challenges, questions, and solutions. This event will include a Keynote presentation […]
