English Department Archives

Apr 10, 2025
  • English Department

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...

Apr 10, 2025
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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...

Apr 10, 2025
  • English Department

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...

Apr 01, 2025
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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...

Mar 27, 2025
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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...

Mar 22, 2025
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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...

Mar 20, 2025
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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...

Mar 13, 2025
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Nicholson Delivers 2025 TAG Lecture

Writer and scholar Renée K. Nicholson delivered the 2025 TAG Lecture. Her creative and academic work has appeared widely in venues such as The Gettysburg Review, The Millions, Electric Literature,...

Mar 13, 2025
  • English Department

Hallberg Wins American Writing Award

Christy Hallberg's podcast, Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels, has been named the 2025 American Writing Awards Podcast of the Year in Music. The podcast was...

Feb 26, 2025
  • English Department

Dighton’s Work Assists Roseboro

Dr. Desiree Dighton, Mallory Picken (BS PWID) and Zebediah Demorest (MA TPC) are part of a team — along with Tiffany Blanchflower (Department of Interior Design and Merchandising, College of...