Faculty Accomplishments Archive

Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, was named to the shortlist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize, the world's largest prize for a book of poetry. He was selected for his translated and edited edition of Tomaž Šalamun's Kiss of the Eyes of Peace, Selected Poems 1964-2014.

Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, & sexuality studies, directed The Nest, a feature-length documentary, which will make its world premiere at the upcoming Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada.

Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, & sexuality studies, published "On Anticolonial Homemaking" in Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Julietta Singh, professor of English and women, gender, & sexuality studies, was interviewed in special issue on "Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding" in Studies in Social Justice. 

Elisabeth Gruner, professor of English, presented research from her book Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Congress.

Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, received the 2024 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the University of Richmond at Colloquy.

Nathan Snaza, director of the Humanities Center and professor of English, published Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of Humanism by Duke University Press.

Elisabeth Gruner, professor of English, published Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction.

Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published Kiss of the Eyes of Peace, Selected Poems 1964-2014, a comprehensive English-language retrospective of Tomaž Šalamun’s storied career, including poems from all 52 of Šalamun’s books.

Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published translations of poems by Tomaž Šalamun in The Nation, A Public Space, and Bennington Review, among other journals.

Nathan Snaza, assistant professor of English, published Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man by Duke University Press.

Elizabeth Outka, professor of English and Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities, has been named an Outstanding Faculty Award recipient by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Learn more.