Students
Graduate
- The Graduate Program would like to congratulate our newest PhDs from the 2020–2021 academic year: Lydia Craig, Katie Dyson, Rick Gilbert, and Shelby Sleevi.
Undergraduate
- The Writing Program is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Sharon Walsh Essay Contest:
1st place: Sophia Aigner, for “Disparity, Discrimination, and Double-Dealing: Why the SAT Should Be Abolished.” (instructor: Kevin Quirk)
2nd place: Genevieve Crawford, for “Politicizing Science: Why Should We Be Concerned?” (instructor: Julie Fiorelli)
3rd place: Connor Quaglino, for “Cura Personalis.” (instructor: Julie Chamberlin)
Faculty
- Long Le-Khac has been named an Edwin T. and Vivijeanne F. Sujack Master Researcher, in recognition of his outstanding scholarship and research outside the classroom.
- Transnational Literature: The Basics, the latest from Paul Jay, was published in March 2021 by Routledge. It concisely describes the various ways in which literature can be understood as being "transnational," explains why scholars in literary studies have become so interested in the topic, and discusses the economic, political, social, and cultural forces that have shaped its development. The book explores a range of contemporary critical approaches to the subject, highlighting how topics like globalization, cosmopolitanism, diaspora, history, identity, migration, and decolonization are treated by both scholars in the field and the writers they study.
- Marta Werner's newest book, Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson's Master Hours, was published in February 2021 by Amherst College Press. The book presents Emily Dickinson's "Master" documents alongside her other major textual experiment in the years between ca. 1858–1861: the Fascicles. In both, Dickinson can be seen testing the limits of address and genre in order to escape bibliographical determination and the very coordinates of “mastery” itself. More information is available via the publisher. In April, Dr. Werner was invited to discuss this work with the poet Peter Gizzi at an event hosted by the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College. The interview can be viewed here.
Alumni
- Lowell Wyse, PhD 2018, will release Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature in July 2021 with Iowa University Press. Based on his 2018 dissertation, Ecospatiality explores modern and contemporary American prose literature through the lens of place, showing how authors like William Least Heat-Moon, Willa Cather, Richard Wright, and Leslie Marmon Silko represent and reimagine real places in the world and the human-environment relationships therein. The full precis and publication details are available here.
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