AnnMarie DeMichiel Title: “House Of Horrors: Shirley Jackson And The Perils Of The Domestic In American Literature, 1945-1965” Major Professor: David Faflik Tatiana Duvanova Title: The Empire, A Dystopian Novel Major Professor: Derek Nikitas Diana Turken Title: “This Could Be Heaven Or This Could Be Hell: Figurations Of Urban Life In Contemporary California” Major Professor: […]
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Professor Sarah Eron Publishes New Book
Along with her colleagues Nicole N. Aljoe and Suvir Kaul, Professor Sarah Eron has published a groundbreaking new collection in Eighteenth-Century Studies. The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the […]
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Katherine Robbins (BA candidate in English) will be presenting “What Still Haunts Us: Victorian Spiritualism in Contemporary Novels” at a virtual undergraduate and graduate conference titled Re-imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians in April at Queen’s University, Canada.
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Associate Professor Peter Covino has won a prestigious prize and publication contract for his translation from the Italian of What Sex Is Death: Selected Poems of Dario Bellezza.
Continue reading "Associate Professor Peter Covino Wins Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation"Eve Potvin (ABM candidate in English) Presenting Paper at INCS Conference
Eve Potvin (ABM candidate in English, May 2025) will be presenting “The Dame, the Cross-dresser, and Rochester: Deception and Trans Perception in Jane Eyre” in March at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference in Cincinnati. Congratulations, Eve!
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On Wednesday, March 6th, at noon in the Hoffmann Room of Swan Hall, please join the English Department and the Center for the Humanities for a lecture by Billy Bowden: “Planetary Drift: Flotsam as Empathic Medium in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being” The talk will be in person and live-streamed.
Continue reading "PhD Candidate Billy Bowden to Give Brown-Bag Talk"Alumnx Kim Evelyn (PhD 2015) wins NEH award
Kim Evelyn is the recipient of an NEH Award for Faculty at HBCUs. The funding will support her research on a book with the working title Travelers in Caribbean Texts: 1950s-2020s. The NEH press release is here: https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-338-million-260-humanities-projects-nationwide
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Shanee Stepakoff’s essay, “The Jew in the Jamaican, the Amalgam in the Attic: A New View of Bertha Mason in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre,” was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Victorian Culture. Her article “The Influence of the Altaic Deity ‘Erlik’ on D. H. Lawrence’s Portrayal of ‘Loerke’ in Women in […]
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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: […]
Continue reading "Professor Christine Mok On Creative Team of Critically Acclaimed Play"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 […]
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