Faculty Highlights

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  Ashe Published

  Bertram Ashe, professor of English and Africana studies advisory board member, published "American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in Contemporary Jazz Performance" in Sonic Identity at the Margins, co-edited by colleagues Joanna Love, associate professor of music, and Jessie Fillerup, associate professor of musicology.

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published three new books: Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation and translations of Aleš Šteger's The Book of Bodies and Written on Site: Costa da Morte and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published the lyric essay "In and Out of Order" in The Georgia Review.

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published translations of over 50 poems by Tomaž Šalamun, which have appeared recently in Agni, Blackbird, Guernica, Iterant, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry Review (UK), among other places.

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  Gruner Elected

  Elisabeth Gruner, professor of English, was elected president of the Children's Literature Association, an international academic organization dedicated to high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children's literature.

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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.