We have just received news that four graduate students in the English department have received Fellowships and Scholarships from the URI Graduate School for the coming academic year! Congratulations to Molly Volanth Hall (Literature) and Adrienne Jones Daly (Writing & Rhetoric) on receiving fellowships and Ryan Engley and Ashton Foley-Schramm on receiving tuition scholarships. We’ll be featuring […]
Continue reading "Congratulations to Fellowship and Scholarship recipients!"Andrea Russo at Non-traditional Career Speaker Series
URI librarian Bohyun Kim’s speaker series “ Non-traditional Career Opportunities for Students in Humanities and Social Sciences” recently hosted Andrea Russo on March 15th as the second presenter in a series of four. Russo visited Carother’s Library from her current position as the regional manager of Rhode Island for TEALS, an organization with the goal of bringing […]
Continue reading "Andrea Russo at Non-traditional Career Speaker Series"Spring Conferences Coming Up
It’s Spring Break here at URI and we’re looking forward to the 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference on April 7 and the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention April 12-15, 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA. If you’re planning to be there, make sure to check out some of our graduate students who will be presenting. The Graduate Student […]
Continue reading "Spring Conferences Coming Up"Non-traditional Career Opportunities for Students in Humanities and Social Sciences Speaker Series
The library has introduced a new speaker series in “Non-traditional Career Opportunities for Students in Humanities and Social Sciences” this semester. Organized by Bohyun Kim, Scholarly Technology Librarian, this series aims to help students of all levels explore working in fields that are not necessarily directly associated with the Humanities or Social Sciences. The first […]
Continue reading "Non-traditional Career Opportunities for Students in Humanities and Social Sciences Speaker Series"New PhD Student, Heather J. Macpherson, awarded EGRA
Heather J. Macpherson is a first-year PhD student in Literature in the English department with interests in Poetry, Animal Studies, Modernism, and Creative Nonfiction. Her writing, mostly essays and/or poetry, have appeared in Pearl, Spillway, Clare Literary, The Broken Plate, Parlour, Niche, Gravel and other fine places. She has thrice been features editor for The Worcester Review. Heather’s poem “Sestina Lot #41994” was nominated […]
Continue reading "New PhD Student, Heather J. Macpherson, awarded EGRA"Professor Spotlight: Ryan Trimm
Dr. Ryan Trimm has been in the English department at URI since 2001. During his tenure here, he has served as the department chair and the director of graduate studies. He currently has a joint appointment in Film Studies and serves on the board for the Center for the Humanities on campus. Trimm received his PhD […]
Continue reading "Professor Spotlight: Ryan Trimm"Write Now: Genres of Writing – Opportunities for Self-Transformation
The Center for Humanities (CFH) hosted “Write Now: Genres of Writing – Opportunities for Self-Transformation” on Dec. 12, 2017. This workshop, geared towards junior faculty and graduate students, offered attendees the opportunity to rethink our relationship with writing so that it can become a more generative and productive practice. Rather than focusing solely on our […]
Continue reading "Write Now: Genres of Writing – Opportunities for Self-Transformation"A Conversation with Laura Marie Marciano
Laura is a 4th year PhD student working on a creative dissertation in Poetry in the English department at the University of Rhode Island. She came to pursue her PhD having completed an MFA in Performance and Interactive Media from CUNY Brooklyn. Laura is involved both on-campus and off in fostering a creative writing community, as […]
Continue reading "A Conversation with Laura Marie Marciano"Reflections on the Ocean State Writing Conference
The University of Rhode Island English department has hosted the Ocean State Writing Conference for the last eleven years. This distinguished event is planned and coordinated yearly by the creative writing faculty, Mary Cappello, Peter Covino, Derek Nikitas, Jody Lisberger, the conference director, the wonderful Tina Egnoski this year, and the conference administrative director, Michelle Carraccia. In addition, many […]
Continue reading "Reflections on the Ocean State Writing Conference"Making Our Departments and Disciplines Less Oppressive: An SCLA Roundtable
Each year I attend the annual conference for the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. It is a medium-sized, incredibly supportive and welcoming event. Their support for graduate students, non-tenured and adjunct faculty, and independent scholars shows a deep commitment to both the humanities in general and an acknowledgment of the disparities and challenges […]
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