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Sabina Murray Featured as a UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Sabina Murray has been featured as a Spotlight Scholar as part of UMass Amherst's Research Next: Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity for a Brighter Future. Murray's work often brings...

Cathy Schlund-Vials (PhD '06) Elected President of the American Studies Association
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Cathy Schlund-Vials (PhD in American Studies '06) has been elected president of the American Studies Association. Her three-year term will commence on July 1st this year. ...

Jenny Adams Awarded a 2020-21 Chancellor's Leadership Fellowship
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Jenny Adams has been awarded a Chancellor's Leadership Fellowship for the 2020-21. This Fellowship seeks to "cultivate future campus leaders by offering a half-time, one-year, temporary appointment...

David Fleming Publishes Essay in New Anthology Collection
Friday, March 6, 2020
David Fleming's essay, "A Role for the Progymnasmata in English Education Today" has been included in the anthology collection, Les progymnasmata en pratique, de l’Antiquité à nos jours (Pierre...

Mazen Naous' Book, Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, to be Released this March
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Mazen Naous' book, Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, will be released this month by The Ohio State University Press. Join us in celebrations on April 2, 2020 for the...