Research News

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...

Stephen Clingman’s essay “William Kentridge’s Metonymic Line: The Art of Transformation” has been selected to appear on the South African artist William Kentridge’s new website, in the Readings...

Haivan Hoang's keynote lecture "Why Race Matters when Writing in the Disciplines" recently kicked off the University of Connecticut Writing Center's conference on Racism in the Margins. She shared...

Rebecca Lorimer Leonard has been named as a Public Engagement Project 2021 Faculty Fellow. Lorimer Leonard is an associate professor of English and the Director of the UMass Amherst Writing Program...

Nick Bromell's book, The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass, has recently been published with Duke University Press....

John Hennessy and Ostap Kin translated A New Orthography: Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan, and it has been longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. ...