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Sarah Strickley's short story wins journal prize
Congratulations to Sarah Strickley, whose short story "Dewey Dell: An American Ghost Story" won the Editors' Prize in Prose from the journal Copper Nickel. The story appears in the current issue of that journal.
Ashanka Kumari wins CWPA award
Ph.D. candidate Ashanka Kumari has won a $450 research grant from the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) People of Color Caucus and Writing Program Administrators-Graduate Organization. The award goes to "a recipient whose project explores and/or advances the understanding of issues of race, civil rights, equity, and/or social justice in writing program administration.”
English students partnering with local organizations
Students in Mary P. Sheridan's Digital Storytelling class are collaborating with two community partners this semester. First, they are partnering with the Frazier History Museum to promote their upcoming exhibit, What’s A Vote Worth, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
Deborah Lutz wins Huntington fellowship
Prof. Deborah Lutz has been awarded a research fellowship (short term) from the Huntington Library, in California. She will continue research on her book project, now called "Paper Art and Craft: Victorian Writers and Their Materials," with a focus on the Huntington's collection of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paper crafts, especially the valentines, greeting cards, scrapbooks, and paper dolls collected by Zelda Walker Gaudin.
Mark Mattes wins research grant
Mark Mattes has won a competitive “Grants to Scholars” award from the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Dr. Mattes will use the $2,000 grant to conduct research in the Lyman Copeland Draper collections at the Wisconsin Historical Society for his book project Archival Apocrypha: Indigenous Writing and the Figure of Logan in Colonial and Native American History. This project explores the writing and archiving of information about the Cayuga-Mingo tribal leader Logan (Tachnechdorus).
Kiki Petrosino receives NEA fellowship
The National Endowment for the Arts announced that Kiki Petrosino is one of 35 poets who will receive an FY 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship.
Short story collection by Sarah Strickley
Sarah Strickley has published a collection of short stories, Fall Together.
New Issue of Miracle Monocle
We are pleased to announce the release of Issue X of Miracle Monocle, the University of Louisville's online literary journal.
University Writing Center wins A&S Community Service Award
The University of Louisville Writing Center has won the Community Service Award from the College of Arts & Sciences
New Issue of THRESHOLDS
The second issue of the online journal thresholds--co-edited by Assistant Professor of English Frances McDonald--is now live. Thresholds is a digital zine, with each issue custom-designed to generate provocative collisions of art and ideas. Issue nr. 2, "Traces," is "a collective writing experiment loosely based on the works of media theorist Siegfried Zielinski.
PhD Students Win CCCC Awards
PhD candidates Ashanka Kumari and Khirsten Echols have each received a highly competitive Scholars for the Dream Travel Award from CCCC. This is a very competitive national travel award for graduate students, and will allow Ashanka and Khirsten to travel to Kansas City in March to share their work at the CCCC conference.
Meet Social Justice Scholar Laura Tetreault
Laura Tetreault's research interests include cultural rhetorics; gender studies; contemporary intersectional queer, feminist, and antiracist activism; social justice informed pedagogies; new media and multimodal composition; and translingual approaches to the study and teaching of writing.
English Department Alumni: Ryan Ridge
Ryan Ridge, Alumni '06, will read at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture in February after being awarded the 2017 Italo Calvino Prize.
Megan Hartline wins 2017 CCCC Chair’s Memorial Scholarhip
Megan Hartline, a fourth year doctoral candidate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Louisville, has won a 2017 CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Susan Ryan publishes new book with Oxford
Susan Ryan (Associate Professor and Acting Chair) has published her latest book, "The Moral Economies of American Authorship", with Oxford University Press.
Laura Tetreault wins 2017 CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award
UofL’s Department of English Laura Tetreault is one-of-three recipients of the 2017 CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award.
