The College Outstanding Teaching Award (COTA) recognizes excellence in teaching and honors individual faculty members at each of the university’s colleges for their instructional accomplishments.
"I'm looking at how cultural science is informed by experience, storytelling, and narratives of both places and people. I look specifically at the Caribbean to do that."
David Toomey's new book, Kingdom of Play: What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-Flopping Monkeys, and Mud-Sliding Elephants Reveal About Life Itself, was recently featured in The Atlantic.
Thakshala Tissera, PhD student, has been named the winner of the 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition with her presentation "Elephant Tales: Stories for Coexistence."
With funding from the Peter Elbow Symposium for the Study and Teaching of Writing, the UMass Amherst Composition and Rhetoric program welcomed Dr. Dorell Thomas, lecturer in composition at Brooklyn College, for a day-long visit on December 8, 2023.