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David Toomey's Kingdom of Play Published in German Translation

David Toomey's Kingdom of Play (Scribner, 2024) was published in German translation by Goldmann Verlag as Das faszinierende Spiel der Tiere: Warum Elefanten gerne rutschen, Affen Bauchklatscher lieben und was das alles auch für unser Leben bedeutet.

September 9, 2024
Hoang Phan Awarded Mid-Career Post-Tenure Fellowship

Hoang Phan has been selected by the Office of Faculty Development to receive the Mid-Career Post-Tenure (MCPT) Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year.

September 9, 2024
Janine Solberg Selected as Public Interest Technology Initiative Fellow

Janine Solberg has been selected as a 2024-25 Public Interest Technology Initiative Fellow.

September 5, 2024
Thakshala Tissera, PhD Candidate, Publishes in South Asian Review

Thakshala Tissera recently published an article titled "We Are All Animals": Multispecies Entanglements and More-than-Human Politics in Romesh Gunesekera's Heaven's Edge and Suncatcher."

September 5, 2024
Peter Gizzi and Sabina Murray Honored in 2024 Massachusetts Book Awards

Peter Gizzi won the Poetry Award for Fierce Elegy, and Sabina Murray was included on the Fiction Longlist for Muckross Abbey and Other Stories.

September 5, 2024
UMass Spotlight Scholar: Malcolm Sen

Malcolm Sen believes that “the greatest gift of literature is its ability to provoke empathy across distant spaces, and also distant times.” Nowhere is the need for this power more urgent today than in confronting the existential threat of climate change.

September 4, 2024
In Memoriam: Margo Culley

In memoriam for Margo Culley (Professor Emerita) who retired at the end of 2003.

September 2, 2024
Daniel Sack Publishes "Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying"

Daniel Sack has recently published a book: Cue Tears: On the Act of Crying.

August 30, 2024
Asha Nadkarni and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard Promoted to Full Professor

Asha Nadkarni and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard have been promoted to full Professor.

August 29, 2024

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