Research News

Edie Meidav Chosen as Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellow
Friday, March 24, 2023
Edie Meidav has been selected as a fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center to further her work by writing a book this summer. As part of the fellowship, she will spend one month on...

Jimmy Worthy II Publishes Book: After a Thousand Tears
Friday, March 3, 2023
Jimmy Worthy II has just published his first book, After a Thousand Tears, an edition of poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877–1966), the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance....

Jenny Adams Interviewed in Documentary Series
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Jenny Adams was recently interviewed for a four-part documentary series on chess, Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration, which was released this month. The series examines "the...

Laura Furlan Awarded Beatrice Medicine Award
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Laura Furlan has recently been awarded the 2022 Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Essay from the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for her essay “The Archives of...

Rebecca Dingo Studies Scholarly Writing on Campus
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
As part of Rebecca Dingo’s Chancellor's Leadership Fellowship, she is gathering information on scholarly writing at UMass Amherst. Dingo was recently interviewed for the Office of Faculty...

Rebecca Lorimer Leonard Publishes in Multiple Venues
Friday, November 4, 2022
Rebecca Lorimer Leonard recently published a chapter, “Feeling 'Whole-some': How Transnational Writing Can Mend Literate Fragmentation,” in the MLA edited collection Teaching and Studying...