In the fall of 2016, the week of the presidential election, graduate student Jen Onopa proposed Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge to the UMass Theater Department mainstage season. “I had been wanting...

Closing April 14th, the UMass Theatre Guild ended its run of Michael Cristofer’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play The Shadow Box. The director John H. Llewellyn ‘20, an english and...

On April 24, Angélica Liddell will present poems from her collection Los Deseos en Amherst / Desires in Amherst, inspired by the work of Emily Dickinson. She is making this special trip to Amherst to perform the work in the town where Dickinson lived.

On Tuesday, March 20, six second-year graduate students presented their work for The Annual MFA Midway Show held in the Herter Art Gallery. These students are: Kristy Childress, Althea Keaton, Nick...

Felipe Salles, associate professor of jazz studies, composition and saxophone, has been selected to receive a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

On March 28, the UMass Amherst English department hosted an online video chat between students and UMass Amherst English alumni in South College. Professor Janis Greve moderated the chat, and...