English Department

Applications due: April 17, 2026.

On Friday, March 13 from 3:00-4:00pm in ISEC (1st Floor), Professors Amy Juarez and Nicole Theodosiou (Biology) are hosting a reception for "Biology v. Belief: Debunking the Medieval Legacy in Human Reproduction & Policy," an exhibit of the combined research of their classes FYI 100-07 and BIO-354.

On Thursday, March 26 at 6:00 PM, Parent & Alumni Engagement's virtual Academic Hour features Professor Jillmarie Murphy discussing her current book project, Anthrozoology: The Neuroscience of Human–Nonhuman Attachments in Literary Naturalism.

What have you published lately? Let us know!

Faculty:

Professor Shena McAuliffe published an excerpt from her novel-in-progress "Milkweed" in the journal Quarterly West.

Professor Claire Bracken, “Read a Dirty Book: James Joyce, Samuel Steward and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion,” with Laurel Harris and Marissa Stinson, in Modernism/Modernity, Nov. 2025.

Professor Jordan Smith published an essay, "Liberty," and two poems, "In the Pines" and "Threadbare" in Live Encounters, February, 2026. On Feb. 7, the poem "Tattoo" appeared in Vox Populi. Smith has a guest editorial essay, "Listening" in Live Encounters' Nov-Dec 2025 issue.

Professor Bunkong Tuon published three poems in the print journal Salamander Magazine, 60: Fall/Winter, 2025-26. "Driving Home after Christmas with the In-laws" and "Year of the Snake" appeared in One Art on Dec. 26, 2025. In November, 2025, Tuon published another Pushcart-nominated poem, "Eating Donuts with My Son at Dunkin'" as well as "My Neighbor's Plea to his Children" at Collateral, where you can both read and listen to Prof. Tuon read the poems.

Alumni:

Aja Schiller '25 wrote a psychological thriller called "Little Creatures" for her English Honors Thesis in 2024-25. Her new short story, "Pigs," is accepted for publication as a chapbook from Bottlecap Press, CA, and may be pre-ordered.

Jamaluddin Aram '17 contracted his essay collection, The Blood of Things to McClelland & Stewart (Canada) for publication in Fall 2026. Aram's prize-winning debut novel is Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday (Scribner-Canada, 2023).

Patrick Mulready '25 published a story (from his honors thesis collection), "The Work Capacity of Young Adults" in Short Vine Literary Journal (U Cincinnati), Spring 2025, pp. 27-33.

Students:

Nevaeh Williams '28, a student in EGL295: Creative Nonfiction Workshop, had an essay accepted for publication in The Oakland Arts Review, an undergraduate literary journal at Oakland University in Michigan. It will appear in their spring 2026 issue.

Naomi Nayor '28 published a poem entitled "-9" from EGL 110: The Poetic Process in Oakland Arts Review, Spring 2025, p. 29.

Benjamin Stern '26 wrote an original one-act play in ATH 320: Playwriting, "The Trees Have Names Too," which won the Judith Barlow Prize.

Tuesday, Feb. 10, Film Studies Professional Series and The Department of English welcomed Justin Zorn '17, Vice President of Feature Films at International Promotions.

Jan. 27: English co-hosted Chris Althoff on "How Stories Train Your Brain: Memory, Media and the Experience of Adaptations"

Feb. 4: Adonis Richards, Schenectady's Poet Laureate, performed Spoken Word Poetry.

Tu Feb. 24, 12:55-1:45 Karp 105: Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times movie critic and creative nonfiction writer

Wed March 4, 5:00 Joorst Burgers, "Turning Narrative into Data and Data into Narrative"

Th March 5, 10:55-12:30 VART 204: Henia Lewin, "Coping with the Childhood Trauma of Holocaust Survival: Strength & Resilience." See News.

Th March 5, 12:55-1:45 Bina Gogineni and Kyle Nichols, "Whose temporality? Which scales?: Shifting from a temporal to a spatial understanding of the human"

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