- Professor Kelly Matthew's book, Brian Friel:《十大网赌信誉平台》, is now available from Four Courts Press. Matthews has been working on the project for the past eight years.
- Wesleyan University Press has officially announced Dr. Rachel Trousdale's poetry collection, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, as the inaugural winner of the Cardinal Poetry Prize! 的 manuscript was selected by three-time Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky from fifteen finalists, following an initial screening process of 428 manuscripts. Of the winning manuscript Pinsky said, “A rare gift in art is directness: to turn a clear, unsentimental gaze on love and grief in all their variations, with no smokey or mysterioso evasions. Almost as valuable is meaningful surprise, the stunned laughter of recognition even if the subject for marvel is loss. 的 heartfelt, unpredictable poems of Rachel Trousdale attain that kind of discovery."
- English Department 访问ing Lecturer Dr. 卢卡斯·迪特里希的书, Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920, will be published on June 26 and available for purchase after July 1. Here is the link from UMass Press: http://www.马塞诸斯州CollegesThe.edu/umpress/title/writing-across-color-line
- Ani Gjika教授, a 访问ing Lecturer in the English Department, has published two translated books of poems: Kosovar poet’s Xhevdet Bajraj’s 紧急出口和茱莉亚·吉卡的 记忆假装睡着了. Xhevdet Bajraj has lived in exile in Mexico since the Kosovo war in 1997. Julia Gjika, Professor Gjika’s mother, belongs to the first generation of Albanian women poets. 的 first of her four poetry collections, 的生日, 出版于1971年. Julia Gjika has lived in the 美国 since 1996. Here is a link to the publisher’s website: http://www.laertesbooks.org/egret-chapbooks
- 当前的 门柱 Editor-in-Chief Sophia Harris '25 was hired as a full-time reporter for 林恩日报 这个夏天, and they were so wowed by her they promoted her to serving as the main reporter for the weekly newspaper in Marblehead. 的n they asked if she could recommend candidates from 弗雷明汉 State’s journalism program when they were hiring for two full-time positions at their affiliated newspapers and if she would participate in interviewing all the candidates—again, because they found her to be so impressive. 的 end result of those searches is that recent FSU alums Emily Rosenberg '24 and Adam Levine '24 were hired and are finishing their first very successful month working for 项目 报业连锁.
- 的 Society of Professional Journalists recognizes the best collegiate journalism in Region 1 with 2023 Mark of Excellence Awards 赢家. 的门柱 was recognized as a finalist in the categories of:
- Editorial/Opinion Writing, Editorial 工作人员
- Columns — by Leighah Beausoleil '23
- Feature Photography for Whipping up some fun — by Maddison Behringer '24
- 的门柱 won four awards in the New England 新闻paper and Press Association’s Better 新闻paper Competition on March 23. NENPA is the professional trade organization for newspapers in the six New England states. 的 awards in the college division of the competition were for material published during the 2022-23 academic year.
- 的门柱 获得第二名 in the New England College 新闻paper of the Year contest. 鲍登学院的 鲍登东方 获得第一名; Boston University’s 每日自由出版社 获得第三名. This is the second year in a row NENPA has recognized 的门柱 as one of New England’s best college newspapers.
- 的门柱 获得第二名 for Editorial Writing. 基恩州立大学 Equinox的 获得第一名; 每日自由出版社 获得第三名.
- Leighah Beausoleil, ’23, 获得第三名 in the In-Depth Reporting category. 昆尼皮亚克大学的 昆尼皮亚克纪事报 获得第一名; University of New Hampshire’s 新罕布什尔州 获得第二名.
- 麦肯齐病房, ’23, 获得第三名 for column writing for “An Unethical Solution,” published on February 3, 2023.
- We are delighted to share that Sofia Wilson '24 (English/PoliSci double major; Digital 人文学科 Minor) has just accepted a Globalink Research Internship awarded by MITACS (Canada) to work for Dr. Janelle Jenstad at the University of Victoria, British Columbia for Summer 2024. This award is highly competitive and draws from an international pool of applicants. Sofia was first vetted by the U.S. Fulbright system before going through the Mitacs process. She ranked projects she wanted to work on when she applied. Once she qualified, her application was forwarded to project leaders. Ultimately, Sofia received TWO offers and I am delighted beyond measure that she has accepted Dr. Jenstad's offer to work with her at UVic!