Jordy Rosenberg's novel, Confessions of a Fox (Random House 2018), has been shortlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. This prize is awarded for the best debut novel published...

This past August, Daniel Sack received the 2018 Award for Excellence in Editing from the Association for Theatre in High Education. The award is for his work on Imagined Theatres: Writing for a...

Stacie Klinowski and Jackie Ordway, first-year graduate students in the English Department's Composition and Rhetoric program, have been awarded the Moran-Herrington Fellowship for 2018. As...

Jenny Adams has published an article, coauthored with Michael Ash, about textbook prices and technology. To read her article, please visit The Conversation.  

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is launching a new Commission on the Arts. With distinguished cochairs, including UMass MFA alum and former Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha...

Steve Harris, a faculty member in English, has been named as the Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair in Arts & Social Sciences in Canada and North America for 2018-19. This award includes a...