Faculty Highlights

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  Outka's Book Short-Listed

  Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka, professor of English, was short-listed for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Read more.

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  Outka Awarded

  Elizabeth Outka, professor of English, received the 2021 Transatlantic Studies Association-Cambridge University Press Book Award for Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature. Read more.

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  Browder Awarded Grant

  Dr. Laura Browder, American Studies professor, along with UR colleagues was awarded grant support for the inter-campus collaborative project, "Participatory History and Archiving: An Initiative to Promote and Support Undergraduate Instruction and Project Outcomes in Community-Based Research and Archiving." Read More
  

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  Russell Published

  Kristin M. S. Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies, and Anthony Presti Russell, associate professor of English and comparative literature, published their co-edited book "William Shakespeare and 21st-Century Culture, Politics, and Leadership" with Edward Elgar. 

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  Outka Receives Award

  Elizabeth Outka, professor of English, received the 2020 Book Award (monograph category) from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association for her book Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature.

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  Singh Published

  Julietta Singh, associate professor of English and WGSS, has partnered with Daunt Books Publishing who acquired The Breaks, a nonfiction book about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world.

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  Outka Published

  Elizabeth Outka, Professor of English, published a lyric essay titled "How Pandemics Seep into Literature" for The Paris Review.

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  Outka Published

  Elizabeth Outka, Associate Professor of English, published Viral Modernism:  The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature through Columbia University Press.

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  Gruner Published

  Dr. Elisabeth Gruner recently published the book, Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, with Palgrave Macmillan and will be presenting research from the book in Stockholm, Sweden this fall.

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  Snaza Published

  Dr. Nathan Snaza's Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism, has been published by Duke University Press.