Dr. Marie Farr (1940-2025)
Dr. Marie Farr, Associate Professor Emerita, served as the Founding Director of the Women's Studies Program, Acting Chair of the Department of Communication, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts...
English Department Archives
Squint Presents at ASAIL
On April 3-4, Dr. Kirstin Squint and English M.A. (Multicultural and Transnational Literature concentration) alumnus, Aries Farrington, presented at the online Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures conference....
Gueye Share Updates on Fulbright
Marame Gueye's Fulbright updates highlight her recent activities. Gueye supported her African literature students in creating "Women in Higher Ed," an organization addressing gender disparities in academia by providing sanitary...
Hoppenthaler Publishes in Ploughshares
John Hoppenthaler 's "Glendale Mill, 1837-2004" is published in the Spring 2025 issue of Ploughshares. Dubbed “the Triton among minnows” by the New York Times, Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of...
Flora Thomas Publishes Four New Poems
Amber Flora Thomas has three new poems in The Georgia Review and another in The Alaska Quarterly Review. The Georgia Review is a literary-cultural journal published by the University of Georgia...
Brooks and Trzepacz Work Pirates Aboard
Senior Emmie Brooks (English BA, Professional Writing and Information Design minor) and junior Abby Trzepacz (Professional Writing and Information Design BS) joined Grace Horne, Gera Miles, and Randall Martoccia in...
Hallberg Leads Panel at Knoville Book Festival
Christy Hallberg participated in the inaugural Knoxville Book Festival last weekend. There, she led the panel discussion on "From Vinyl to Verse: Exploring Rock Music in Literary Fiction" with Michael...
Morris Receives Outstanding Dissertation Award
Dr. Abby Morris won the 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts. Morris received this award for her dissertation, Encouraging Preventive Action by Employing Effective Rhetoric in...
Squint and Bradley Presents at SNS Conference
On March 21, 2025, Dr. Kirstin Squint, and English M.A. student Anna Bradley presented papers at the 20th annual Southeast Native Studies Conference, held at the University of North Carolina...
Klein’s Film Class Discusses The Substance
On March 2, Amanda Klein's film studies class students attended The Substance screening. Film student Haley Richards provided a brief recap of the event, "The Substance is a contemporary horror...