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Please join us in congratulating Professor of Africana Studies and English Martha Cutter for receiving the 2024 MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award!
MELUS, the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Professor Cutter have a long history, and this award recognizes both her scholarly accomplishments and her dedication to MELUS.
We’re proud to have such lovely, esteemed faculty as you, Professor Cutter 🩷
Please join us in congratulating Professor of Africana Studies and English Martha Cutter for receiving the 2024 MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award!
MELUS, the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and Professor Cutter have a long history, and this award recognizes both her scholarly accomplishments and her dedication to MELUS.
We’re proud to have such lovely, esteemed faculty as you, Professor Cutter 🩷
Congratulations to Professor of English Anna Mae Duane and Professor of Political Science Stephen Dyson, who have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant for their project, “Bringing the Past to the Future: Slavery and Artificial Intelligence on the Battleground of Popular Culture”!
The project involves the “development of a podcast series and scholarly book chapters
analyzing how persistent narratives of slavery and servitude have influenced popular
understanding of artificial intelligence and humans’ ethical engagement with emerging
technologies,” according to its official description.
Well done, Professors Duane and Dyson—we’re looking forward to seeing how your project progresses 🤍
Congratulations to Professor of English Anna Mae Duane and Professor of Political Science Stephen Dyson, who have been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant for their project, “Bringing the Past to the Future: Slavery and Artificial Intelligence on the Battleground of Popular Culture”!
The project involves the “development of a podcast series and scholarly book chapters
analyzing how persistent narratives of slavery and servitude have influenced popular
understanding of artificial intelligence and humans’ ethical engagement with emerging
technologies,” according to its official description.
Well done, Professors Duane and Dyson—we’re looking forward to seeing how your project progresses 🤍
We’d like to congratulate Jonathan Merola for successfully defending his dissertation, “‘The Good Pelican’: Forms and Figures of Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century American Catholic Fiction,” last Friday!
Well done, Jonathan! We wish you the best with your future endeavors 💚
We’d like to congratulate Jonathan Merola for successfully defending his dissertation, “‘The Good Pelican’: Forms and Figures of Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century American Catholic Fiction,” last Friday!
Well done, Jonathan! We wish you the best with your future endeavors 💚
April is National Poetry Month! In celebration, we’re highlighting “So to Speak” by Terrance Hayes, our 58th Wallace Stevens Poet.
Some follow the “rules” rigidly; Hayes, on the other hand, uses his poetry to play with those rules—to work with and around them to his liking. In his July 2023 appearance on “All Things Considered,” he explained his relationship with formal poetic rules:
Well, I do like bending rules, so I`m very aware. And I say in my teaching to my students about bending the rules so that we know that there was a rule to be broken. Otherwise, it`s anarchy. For me, in the sonnet form, it`s that volta - the idea that you`re going to have to change your mind at some point if you know sort of psychologically how the sonnet`s set up. So I think about that as an American. You know, we would never have just one volta `cause, for us, it`s just going to be constant changes - from Black presidents to whatever follows Black presidents, from crazy weather to beautiful weather - you know, just turn - constantly a kind of turning is how I think of the volta in an American sonnet.
Quote: NPR
Photo: Blue Flower Arts.
April is National Poetry Month! In celebration, we’re highlighting “So to Speak” by Terrance Hayes, our 58th Wallace Stevens Poet.
Some follow the “rules” rigidly; Hayes, on the other hand, uses his poetry to play with those rules—to work with and around them to his liking. In his July 2023 appearance on “All Things Considered,” he explained his relationship with formal poetic rules:
Well, I do like bending rules, so I`m very aware. And I say in my teaching to my students about bending the rules so that we know that there was a rule to be broken. Otherwise, it`s anarchy. For me, in the sonnet form, it`s that volta - the idea that you`re going to have to change your mind at some point if you know sort of psychologically how the sonnet`s set up. So I think about that as an American. You know, we would never have just one volta `cause, for us, it`s just going to be constant changes - from Black presidents to whatever follows Black presidents, from crazy weather to beautiful weather - you know, just turn - constantly a kind of turning is how I think of the volta in an American sonnet.
Quote: NPR
Photo: Blue Flower Arts.
Today, we’d like to congratulate Professor Frederick Roden for winning the 2024 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Excellence (Career)! Wonderful work, Professor Roden—we’re proud to have such awesome faculty in our Department 💚
Today, we’d like to congratulate Professor Frederick Roden for winning the 2024 UConn-AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Excellence (Career)! Wonderful work, Professor Roden—we’re proud to have such awesome faculty in our Department 💚
The Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write series is back with special guest R. Joseph Rodriguez!
He will visit the Barnes & Noble Bookstore located at 1 Royce Circle at UConn Storrs on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Join us at 6:30 for a reading and talk with the St. Edward’s University educator, UConn alum, writer, and English Journal coeditor.
We hope to see you there 💙
The Writers Who Edit, Editors Who Write series is back with special guest R. Joseph Rodriguez!
He will visit the Barnes & Noble Bookstore located at 1 Royce Circle at UConn Storrs on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Join us at 6:30 for a reading and talk with the St. Edward’s University educator, UConn alum, writer, and English Journal coeditor.
We hope to see you there 💙
Thomas Layman successfully defended his dissertation, "Puritans, Playwrights, and the Politics of Pleasure: Sex Comedies in Seventeenth-Century British Theater,” last week!
Congratulations, Thomas! We wish you the best as your journey continues ❤️
Thomas Layman successfully defended his dissertation, "Puritans, Playwrights, and the Politics of Pleasure: Sex Comedies in Seventeenth-Century British Theater,” last week!
Congratulations, Thomas! We wish you the best as your journey continues ❤️
Registration for summer courses is open—check out what UConn English has to offer!
Learn more about Summer Session 2024 at the link in our bio 🧡
Registration for summer courses is open—check out what UConn English has to offer!
Learn more about Summer Session 2024 at the link in our bio 🧡