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UMass English Headliners at the 2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Friday, April 16, 2021
Sadie Dupuis (MFA '14), Martín Espada, and Dara Wier are among the headliners for the 2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, May 13–16, 2021....

"Everywhere You Don't Belong" by Gabriel Bump (MFA '17) To Be Adapted for Television
Friday, April 16, 2021
Concordia Studio, the studio set up by An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim and former Participant exec Jonathan King, is adapting Gabriel Bump’s (MFA '17) book Everywhere You Don’t...

Kate Litterer, PhD '20, Publishes Tend To It: A Holistic Guide to Intentional Productivity
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Kate Litterer, PhD '20, recently published her first book, Tend To It: A Holistic Guide to Intentional Productivity....

Jordy Rosenberg's Second Book Under Contract with Penguin Random House
Monday, April 12, 2021
Jordy Rosenberg's second book, The Day Unravels What the Night has Woven, is now under contract with Penguin Random House to be published in 2022....

John Yargo, PhD Candidate, Published in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
Monday, April 12, 2021
John Yargo, PhD candidate, has recently published an article, "Messengers Were Harmed in the Making of This History: Narrating the Past in Antony and Cleopatra," in the Journal for Early Modern...

Rebecca Dingo Named as Incoming Co-Editor of Peitho
Monday, April 5, 2021
Rebecca Dingo has recently been named as an incoming co-editor of Peitho, the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (CFSHRC). Dingo...