News & Announcements

Elizabeth Callaway, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of English and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, and Rebekah Cummings, MLIS, Director of Digital Matters at the Marriott Library, have received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to hold a three-week Summer Institute for Higher Education at the University of Utah.

Congratulations to graduate student Kieron Walquist, winner of the 2024 National Poetry Series Competition for his poem, Our Hands Hold Violence!

Read her poem on the New Yorker

Congratulations to Erin O’Luanaigh, PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry), who delivered a paper at the XXIX International James Joyce Symposium in Glasgow, Scotland, 14-19 June 2024 titled “ ‘Where there is a reconciliation, there must have been first a sundering’: Reading Ulysses as a Cavellian Comedy of Remarriage.” At the Symposium banquet, the selection committee announced that Erin’s paper had won the prize for “Best Graduate Student Paper” at this year’s symposium.

Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for being included in NPR’s list of “Books We Love 2023" in the “Seriously Great Writing” section.