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Profile: Ryan D'Alleva '22

Find your niche in the department. There are multiple specializations within the major, and they can be a really great opportunity to explore what you want to do within the major.

April 14, 2022
Profile: Amanda McCombs '22

I have always loved reading and writing and the power of language. My favorite part about the English major is using the analytical skills I form to examine the texts around me and the subtle meanings that creators impose based on their word and image choices.

April 14, 2022
Peter Gizzi Publishes Poems in Multiple Venues

Poems by Peter Gizzi were recently published in multiple venues. “Romanticism” was published in The Brooklyn Rail, and “Revisionary” was published in the New York Review of Books.

April 14, 2022
Jenny Adams Publishes in The Library

Jenny Adams’s “Thomas Hunt’s Monograms” was published in The Library, (September 2021): 376-82.

April 14, 2022
2022 Troy Lecture - Anne McClintock

Anne McClintock “Monster: A Fugue in Fire and Ice”. 

Anne McClintock is the A Barton Hepburn Professor in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

April 14, 2022
Ocean Vuong Publishes New Poetry Collection

Ocean Vuong’s new poetry collection, Time Is a Mother, was released this week. In anticipation of the book release, Vuong was recently interviewed by Time MagazinePBS NewsHourNPR’s Fresh Air, and The New Yorker

April 8, 2022
Jarrel De Matas, PhD Candidate, Awarded Fellowship

Jarrel De Matas, PhD candidate in the English Department, is one of the recipients of UMass DGS Mellon Fellowship for AY 2022-2023. His project brings together science studies and science fiction, specifically applied to Caribbean literature. 

April 7, 2022
Subhalakshmi Gooptu Defends Dissertation and Accepts Assistant Professor Position

Subhalakshmi Gooptu successfully defended her dissertation, Stories Women Carry: Labor and Reproductive Imaginaries of South Asia and the Caribbean, on April 1 under the supervision of Dr. Asha Nadkarni. She is thrilled to be starting a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor of World Literature, at the English and Communication Studies Department of SUNY's Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City from August 2022.

April 6, 2022
2022 Gibson Lecture: Sharon Yam

Cultivating Transnational Coalitional Subjectivity: Tension, Barriers, and Tactics in the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement

Join us for the 2022 Gibson Lecture. Sharon Yam will present: Cultivating Transnational Coalitional Subjectivity: Tension, Barriers, and Tactics in the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement

April 5, 2022

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