Department of English ANNUAL NEWSLETTER 2018

My goal has always been to attend law school. I had no idea that studying English would also allow me to gain exposure in Irish history and literature, computer coding, and zombie films in relation to eighteenth- century texts.” —Dani Perez ’18

1 WELCOME FROM THE CHAIR

Welcome. Composing my greeting to all of you— alums, colleagues, students, friends— provides me the chance to pause and assess the state of the department, our achievements, and the challenges before us. The ongoing worry, of course, is our dropping enrollment, which seems to have leveled off a bit, though a large drop in the number of potential students in the traditional-age bracket looms on the horizon. We continue to broadcast the message about the value of the English major—and the wide range of employment opportunities our students discover upon graduation. Our efforts continue, meanwhile, to redefine and assess exactly what we want our students to learn, to re- articulate our goals, and to publicize them Department Chair Knoper with Awards Night as widely as we can. undergraduate speaker Pavithra Devajaran. This is my chance, also, to publicize her field. Peruse the list of other faculty- Photo: Dennis Vandal the outstanding achievements of our written books below. But also take note of faculty, students, and alumni, the awards the long and impressive list of publications sustain a vibrant intellectual and creative won, and the honors received. Highlights by alums of our graduate programs! life here in South College. What we do, of in the list include the prestigious Ruth Our new colleague Marjorie course, relies a great deal on the generous Lilly Poetry Prize, received by Martín Rubright, who is also the new director support of our alumni and friends. Espada for his lifetime accomplishments, of the Arthur F. Kinney Center for We are very grateful for your ongoing TABLE OF CONTENTS and Steve Harris’s winning the Fulbright Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, contributions—to the general gift fund, Department News ...... 4 Distinguished Research Chair in Arts invested enormous energy and acumen in scholarships, and special programs— The Chromatic Universe of an Urban Indian ...... 5 and Social Sciences in Canada and successfully organizing Keith Hamilton which enable us to support our talented Thanks for editorial assistance are owed to Meg Caulmare, Jennifer Jacobson, and Alumna Spotlight...... 6 North America, one of the most coveted Cobb’s performances of American Moor, undergraduate and graduate students, Janine Solberg. Undergraduate Spotlight...... 7 appointments in the Fulbright Scholar his residency here, and the associated including those with financial needs, and Undergraduate Studies...... 8 Program. As always, our faculty members programming and events. Jen Adams to maintain such special programs as the Thanks for images are owed to Cayli Armstrong, Mabrouka Boukraa, Graduate Studies...... 9 are astonishingly creative, producing oversaw the celebrations of the Oxford Juniper Initiative, the Oxford Summer Benjamin Dussault, Harley Erdman, MFA Program for Poets and Writers ...... 10 each year a new crop of eye-opening, Summer Seminar’s 50th anniversary. And Seminar, and the Professional Writing and Kevin Hodgson, Elena Kalodner-Martin, Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies...... 11 award-winning books. Jordy Rosenberg’s the MFA Program’s revival of the Juniper Technical Communication Specialization. and Cynthia Ntinunu. UMass Writing Program...... 12 Confessions of the Fox has especially been Festival was an extraordinary success. This newsletter provides a glimpse of Cover Photo: Benjamin Dussault Western Massachusetts Writing Project...... 13 a success, welcomed with extraordinary Read about all of these events below. the fruits of your support. I hope you Program for Professional Writing acclaim almost everywhere, from The I am sad to have to say that our beloved will enjoy reading about the department and Technical Communication...... 14 New Yorker and New York Times to colleague Ron Welburn has now retired. and the people who make it the thriving Oxford Summer Seminar ...... 15 the Huffington Post. Rebecca Lorimer His reflections on his career appear in community it is, and I hope you will keep Alternative Theaters: Navigating the Edinburgh Festival ...... 16 Leonard’s Writing on the Move: Migrant this newsletter. I am also extremely sorry in touch with us and share your own New Books ...... 17 Women and the Value of Literacy, the book to report that another beloved retired memories and accomplishments. colleague, Gary Aho, recently passed —Randall Knoper, Chair Returning Alumni ...... 20 that ensured her award of tenure, won a away. The department did not add any Giving to the Department Donors, 2018 ...... 21 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and new faculty members this year, but our Communication, the highest award in committed and lively teachers and scholars 2 3 DEPARTMENT NEWS

Martín Espada was awarded the 2018 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant singular recognition. It is one of the most prestigious awards given to American poet—and, with a prize of $100,000, one of the nation’s largest literary prizes. Sponsored and administered by the Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, the prize was formally presented to Espada at a ceremony on June 11. Don Share, editor of Poetry magazine, observed, “Martín Espada’s work and life tell the real and lived story of America, in which the importance of poems and legal rights go hand in hand.”

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Stephen Harris was named as the Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair in Arts & Social Sciences in Canada and THE CHROMATIC UNIVERSE OF AN URBAN INDIAN Emeritus Professor Ron Welburn Reflects On His UMass Career North America for 2018–19. This award includes a one-year appointment at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Fulbright Distinguished Chair Awards are among the most Siyo! Greetings to all! I write this within was fortunate to begin honing my inter- music professor felt that Charles Ives was prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program. two weeks of becoming officially retired disciplinary background from childhood overrated. But Ralph Ellison’s course, Harris’s research project is titled “Semantic Field Parsing in from the UMass Amherst English knowledge, eventually writing poems, de- “Fiction and Democracy,” offered an Literature.” He will be programming a computer to identify department, my professional home veloping a serious interest in many forms of interdisciplinary respite. and categorize noun phrases in Old English literature. since spring 1992: 27 calendar years, music, and becoming an amateur musician. These kinds of experiences prepared culminating close to 40 years of full-time Two insights stay with me from my me for a life at UMass Amherst. In April, teaching. Being retired is going to be days in college at Lincoln University in I hope to share my perceptions on both a bittersweet—not having to adhere to Pennsylvania: I encountered Penn profes- indigenous studies and jazz as democratic established routines, teaching, mentoring, sor Morse Peckham’s Man’s Rage for Chaos, foundations for American studies, music and program and committee involvement which discussed natural relationships especially being globally contrapuntal Jordy Rosenberg’s novel Confessions of and leadership. However, delayed writing between art forms, and then had writ- to current anxieties in the U.S. political the Fox was a New York Times Editor’s projects will have my attention. er-in-residence playwright Ronald Milner economy—just a few notions from (with Choice selection and was shortlisted for In spring of 1990, I received an invi- affirm those relationships by telling me that apologies to composer George Russell) the the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize tation from the department’s then-chair Faulkner was the “funkiest writer in the chromatic universe of an urban Indian. and recognized by The New Yorker, the Bob Bagg to apply for a position teaching English language…. He swings like a Lester Tabatnee. Wanishii. Wa’du. Thank you, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and Kirkus American literatures. Joe Skerrett had Young or a Charlie Parker.” I began to friends. Dodada gv’hi. Weekly as one of the best books of 2018. recommended me and to his memory I appreciate how the stories told in perfor- TheNew York Times heralded it as “a mind- owe a tremendous debt. (You can read my mances prevailed as democratic interac- bending romp through a gender-fluid, appreciation on the online site for MELUS: tions. eighteenth-century London ... a joyous The Journal for the Society for the Study of By the ’70s, American studies faced mash-up of literary genres shot through Multiethnic Literature of the United States.) interdisciplinary resistance. NYU’s English with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, Joe’s consciousness about American studies and history faculty told me they did not and revolution.” paralleled my doctoral work at NYU, but I work across the aisles and the American

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Warren Charleston ’19

“I came into UMass undecided in Humanities and Fine Arts and added English in my second semester of One day sophomore year. I chose English I’ll be working on as a major mainly because I was a book about dog good at writing, but also because communication and I liked the style of classes that the the next it’ll be a English department had to offer.... biography about an English classes offer so much room inspiring scientist. I for discussion and critical thought, learn new things all the and when I joined the English major time—things I wished I I immediately felt that. I felt like my learned when I was 10 voice was heard.” years old!”

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ALUMNA And your work now? SPOTLIGHT As an executive editor, most of my job is series I’ve worked on. It’s been so much fun people and project management, but also to learn about crafting stories for audio. Yashika Issrani ’20 Kate (Olesin) Hale ’09 editing manuscripts and dreaming up new Executive Editor, book ideas. I manage a team of editors Favorite book read as a child, as an under- “I always knew I wanted to become National Geographic Kids Books and the strategy for what we fondly call grad, and this year? a lawyer but didn’t know what the “kid-driven” side of our nonfiction In that order, the Redwall series by Brian major I should particularly take in list. These are books that we try and make Jacques; The Return of the Native, by Thom- Can you tell us about your career so far? preparation .... I knew [that English] so much fun to read and look at that kids as Hardy; and Circe, by Madeline Miller. My first job after graduating from UMass was a major I could succeed in, won’t even realize they’re learning: bright was as an assistant in the division I still considering my passion for reading, poppy colors, giant splashy photographs, Many who work in publishing are what work in. I’ve now been a children’s book my analytical eye, and my writing lively narrative, and a heavy dose of awe- some call a bookworm. Are you? editor for nearly a decade. During my first skills. Moreover, I justified my choice some animals and other content kids love. I’ve always been a bookworm, but now I couple of years working full time, our list of major through a practical lens: I I also started editing middle-grade fiction think the more appropriate word for me started to balloon and grow and more was confident that it would prepare books under our new imprint, where we is “storyworm.” I love reading, but also editors were needed to handle the work. me for a rigorous career in law.” publish titles that combine real information watching (movies and television), listening Eventually, I moved up through the ranks with a fun fiction story. (podcasts and radio), and playing (video to the position I’m in now. Lots of people games). There are so many amazing ways wonder why I’ve been at one house for so Is there a project you worked on of which we can experience stories today. long, and my answer is that it never gets you’re most proud? Photo: Cynthia Ntinunu boring. One day I’ll be working on a book I have a lot of favorite books I’ve worked about dog communication and the next it’ll on, but I also write and co-host a satel- be a biography about an inspiring scientist. lite-radio show for kids called The Weird I learn new things all the time—things I but True Show, which is based on a book wished I learned when I was 10 years old! 6 7 PROGRAM REPORTS

We’re ... looking for new Our students ... partners on campus, developing a presented and published Our Placement Record for Graduates new career course, encouraging all their work nationally and Between 1999 and 2018, approximately of our students to do internships, internationally, and several 80 percent of our graduate job seekers [and] reminding ourselves and received acknowledgment found teaching jobs. Others found and funding from external others of our many unique assets, employment in industry, other types of especially our dedicated teachers organizations.” professional work, and higher-education and talented students.” PhD candidates Jeremy Levine and Ashley Canter with “concept map” administration. • Total Number of Graduates: 188 • Tenure-Stream Faculty: 104 (55.3%) GRADUATE STUDIES • Non-Tenure Stream Faculty: 48 (25.5%)

Attendees in Professor Janis Greve’s careers workshop. The graduate program in English enjoyed fellowships to support our incoming • Contract and Long-term: 43 (visiting Photo: Cayli Armstrong a highly productive 2018. Nine students and continuing students. Five of our assistant professor, lecturer, NTT defended their dissertations and received incoming cohort were awarded Research professor) UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES their PhDs: Eli Bromberg, Isabel Espinal, Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) • Adjuncts: 5 diversity fellowships from the Graduate Daniel Ehrenfeld, David Katz, Liane • Administrative: 11 (5.8%) Malinowski, Priscilla Page, Lauren Silber, School, and four incoming students were Job titles in this category include vice Like English departments across the department’s Sanderson Prize for best essay in English, math, science, and SAT prep for William Steffen, and Meghan Swavely. In awarded Summer Funding Fellowships. In chancellor, director of writing center, country, we are facing headwinds in terms on any subject in May 2017, was named grades 1–12 for free!” Starting in August, addition, ten students passed their two- addition, four of our PhD students were of undergraduate enrollments. In fact, one of the university’s 21st Century Leaders Nick entered the College of Education’s area exams and five students successfully awarded a Summer Dissertation Fellowship executive director of liberal arts, the number of English majors at UMass in May 2018, and completed an honors TEACH 180 Days program, which will lead completed their advisory sessions or and two of our students were awarded director of the Center for Teaching and Amherst has been declining since 2009, thesis, “An Investigation into Capitalism to a master’s degree and teaching license. qualifying exams. Dissertation Research Grants. Our students Learning, and director of distance even as the total number of undergraduate and Unfree Labor in the Twenty- “I’m currently teaching five 10th-grade The Graduate Office has continued also presented and published their work learning. students has risen. The main reasons for First Century.” According to English reading and writing enrichment courses nationally and internationally, and several to work on mentoring initiatives aimed at • Professional/Research/Industry: the decline are economic: as the cost of Professor Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, at Springfield’s High School of Science supporting our graduate students as they received acknowledgment and funding 21 (11.2%) Job titles in this category college and the debt burden on students Nick developed this “sophisticated and and Technology,” Nick wrote, “where pass through these milestones. In spring from external organizations. Together, and their families have increased, the extensively researched thesis from papers the students are 70 percent Hispanic, and fall, we offered different iterations of these achievements speak to the excellent include author, K–12 teacher, editor, perception that English is not a good he had originally done for English 202 on 17 percent black, and 10 percent white. the Graduate Writing Workshop, intended work being produced across the graduate choreographer, researcher, friar, and “investment” has also grown. Research Ottobah Cugoano and Friedrich Engels, About 80 percent qualify as economically to demystify the process of writing by community. instructional designer. shows that the reality is nowhere near so which led him to an independent study, disadvantaged.” breaking it down into achievable steps I took over the position of graduate bleak, but it has been a challenge to get that ‘Discourses on Capitalism and Slavery, For Nick, studying English at UMass Under the direction of Associate program director in fall 2018 and have message out. 1780–1850.’ Contributing to the evolution Amherst was both intellectually rewarding Graduate Program Director Jane greatly benefitted from the support of Non-Tenure Stream We’re doing everything we can of this project from its inception, and and good preparation for life after college. Degenhardt, the office also ran a successful my predecessor, Asha Nadkarni, who for 25.5% to confront the situation: looking for seeing Nick become a confident and stellar That’s a story that all of us—students, dissertation workshop and helped several years oversaw the smooth running new partners on campus, developing a researcher, has been one of the most faculty, and alumni—need to be telling. graduate students form writing groups of the Graduate Office. I am extremely new career course, encouraging all of rewarding experiences of my professional —David Fleming, based on research areas. Professor Mazen grateful for her guidance. Finally, our No our students to do internships. We’re life.” Director of Undergraduate Studies Information Naous continued as international student office could not function without the 2.2% also reminding ourselves and others of After graduating in May, Nick faculty adviser, helping to support our genuine care of our administrator, Wanda our many unique assets, especially our returned to Peabody to run his volunteer international graduate students. Bak. She brings warmth, dedication, and Professional 11.2% dedicated teachers and talented students. summer tutoring program (pvto.weebly. Of course, funding is crucial to our an irreplaceable institutional memory to Take Nicholas Blaisdell, who com). “This summer,” he wrote in an email, students making successful progress South College every day. Administrative 5.8% Tenure Stream graduated last spring. A student from “we again had more than 200 students and through the program. I am happy to —Daniel Sack, 55.3% Peabody, Massachusetts, Nick won the nearly 40 tutors, who taught weekly classes report that we had another successful year Director of Graduate Studies of being granted new Graduate School

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MFA PROGRAM FOR POETS AND WRITERS KINNEY CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY In 2018 the MFA Program revived the students to showcase the MFA Digitization Juniper Festival with a focus on community and Cultural Heritage Archive featuring RENAISSANCE STUDIES engagement, celebrating the literary rare audio of historic readings and lectures identity of the region; the UMass MFA by William Bly, James Baldwin, Sterling This fall the Kinney Center for Interdisci- engaged the UMass community in urgent, Program present, past, and future; and the Brown, Robert Creeley, Robert Frost, plinary Renaissance Studies oriented our open conversations about Shakespeare, intersections of those communities with Wallace Stevens, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard creative, pedagogical, and scholarly con- race, and America today. (If you would like the larger literary world. The 2018 Festival Wilbur, James Tate, and other MFA faculty versations around the topic “Shakespeare, to read American Moor, the center holds featured the small-press and journal book and alumni. Race, and America ... Not Necessarily in a copy of the playscript in its rare book fair, readings, and conversations with Poet Sally Wen Mao and prose writer that Order.” Professor Mazen Naous’s Ber- collection. We are the second library in the editors, agents, and publishers, along with Sarah Lapido Manyika opened the Festival lin Lecture, “The Lure of the Moor: Othello world to have a copy in its collections; the several new initiatives including a student with keynote readings in Memorial Hall on in an Arab American Setting,” launched other is the Folger Shakespeare Library in exhibit and spoken-word performance, Friday, and MFA alumni Gabe Bump, Stella our fall program. Keith Hamilton Cobb’s Washington, D.C.) the audio archives, and a roundtable for Corso, Madeline ffitch, and Wendy Xu award-winning theatrical production The Kinney Center benefits immense- admitted students. treated us to readings from their new and American Moor was our centerpiece. ly from the creativity and commitment forthcoming books. MFA students read at In conjunction with Mount Holyoke of those who participate in shaping its LIVELIT, and Factory Hollow Press hosted and Amherst Colleges, the Center spon- programming. The generous collaboration a chapbook release reading featuring sored a week of live performances, an art among English graduate students result- MFA alumni and community members gallery exhibition titled “Othello in Sepia,” ed in our 16th Annual Kinney Center at Amherst Books, our home away from three on-campus residencies with actor/ Graduate Student Conference, “Spaces of home. playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb, and an Authority.” Hayley Cotter, John Yargo, and Also new in 2018, MFA faculty invited keynote address by Kim F. Hall, Lu- Maria Ishikawa designed a thought-pro- members Edie Meidav and Ocean Vuong Above: Professor Kim F. Hall delivers her keynote address, “Othello Was My cyle Hook Professor of English and profes- voking series of panels and, in the spirit taught community workshops in prose Grandfather.” sor of Africana studies at Barnard College, of true interdisciplinary dialogue, invited and poetry honoring the program’s Columbia University. Hall’s historically Christopher R. Kyle, professor of history at commitment to inclusion and engagement. Right: Kim Weild, Director, actor- wide-ranging keynote, “‘Othello Was My Syracuse University, to deliver the confer- In other panels, top editors from renowned playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb, actor Grandfather’: Shakespeare and Race in the ence’s memorable keynote. The center was Jude Sandy, and scholar Kim Hall. local literary magazines The Common, African Diaspora,” was presented in con- also delighted to join forces with the Five jubilat, Meridians, and The Massachusetts junction with an afternoon Actors’ Studio College Book History Seminar to bring Review discussed their guidelines, how facilitated by the lead actor of War Horse, Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Sarah Lapido Manyika and Sally Wen Mao, featured to submit to literary magazines, and Jude Sandy. Together, American Moor Professor of History at Harvard University, readers, MFA’s Juniper Literary Festival. behind-the-scenes editorial processes. The director Kim Weild, Keith Hamilton Cobb, for a talk, “Servant-Functions and Au- Photo: Noah Loving Agent and Book Editors Panel featured scholar Kim Hall, and actor Jude Sandy thor-Functions in Early Modern Europe.” Victory Matsui (One World), Alexa Stark We have a new website! Please visit The book fair included first-time (Trident Media), and Rebecca Wolff (Fence www.umass.edu/renaissance/ for infor- representation by community groups and Books). Writers who wanted feedback on mation about upcoming events and to cultural organizations, including the Straw a pitch for manuscripts in progress had Together, connect with our rich network of students Dog Literary Guild and Emily Dickinson an opportunity to talk with UMass Press American Moor director and scholars. The spring calendar of events Museum. Student-curated initiatives editors Matt Becker and Mary Dougherty. Kim Weild, actor/ includes talks by professors Stephen Spiess showcased interactive programs with an art The 2019 Juniper Festival is scheduled playwright Keith Hamilton (Babson College), Lyn Tribble (University exhibition highlighting the craft of writing’s for April 12–13. Keynote readers will be Cobb, scholar Kim Hall, and of Connecticut), Sean Moore (University merits as a visual art and “Voices: Writers Danez Smith and Horacio Castellanos actor Jude Sandy engaged of New Hampshire), Paul Yachnin (McGill Off the Page,” featuring poetry and prose Moya. Our alumni readers will be Hannah our UMass community in University), and our own Liz Fox, Hayley by MFA students read aloud by current Brooks-Motl, Andrea Lawlor, Arisa White, urgent, open conversations Cotter, and Jane Degenhardt. MFA students, alumni, and community and Jung Yun. We invite you all to join us. about Shakespeare, race, If you would like to be added to our members. For more information and updates, check and America today.” mailing list, please send an email to renais- Another innovation of the Festival out our website: https://www.umass.edu/ [email protected]. was the Audio Experience, curated by MFA englishmfa/.

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The young writers of Armory Camp. Education specialist Scott Gausen with students. Photos: Kevin Hodgson

WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS WRITING PROJECT

Summer camp is for new experiences. research-based, federally funded program Our writing tutor interns. At the Western Massachusetts Writing on argument writing developed by the Na- Project’s “Minds Made for Stories,” a camp tional Writing Project. WMWP is currently At the Western UMASS WRITING PROGRAM for Springfield’s Duggan Academy mid- offering its second C3WP institute, this one Massachusetts Writing Project’s dle-school students held at the Springfield for literacy coaches and English teachers in ‘Minds Made for Stories,’ [students] Armory National Historic Site in June, Massachusetts Department of Youth Ser- In fall 2018 the Writing Program welcomed Kim, about 10 teaching associates engaged learned about local history, wrote campers learned about local history, wrote vices (DYS) schools for incarcerated youth. two new colleagues. Anna Rita Napoleone in a lively conversation about pedagogy and in multiple genres, fabricated in multiple genres, fabricated interchange- Another WMWP project involving joined us as director of both the Writing technology, with Diehl and Kim offering interchangeable parts, and even able parts, and even tried marching. DYS schools is the development of a new Center and the Western Massachusetts some hands-on activities that teaching tried marching.” The project, funded by Mass Human- history instructional guide. This project, a Writing Project. Napoleone earned her associates could right away bring to their ities and the National Writing Project, joint effort by WMWP teacher-consultants PhD here at UMass Amherst in 2017. Her classrooms. Diehl will be leading the focused on keeping students learning and and DYS teachers, includes implementa- research examines how first-generation, technology fellows, who will work on some writing during the summer. Campers were tion of new state standards for history and immigrant, and/or migrant students aspect of technology in college writing in immersed in primary sources available at social science and creation of 20 exemplar navigate academic identities and writing. spring 2019. the armory and explored two main World units. This guide is the fourth developed by Our new assistant director of the Writing In November, in response to War II topics: “WOWs (Women Ordnance WMWP for and with DYS teachers. Program is Anna Floch Arcello, who heinous racial and anti-Semitic incidents Workers)” and “The Double V Campaign: Previous projects produced guides earned her PhD from the University of on campus, grad teaching associates Victory Abroad and Victory at Home for for English language arts, science, and Wisconsin, Madison, in 2017. She brings Rachel Briggs and Alyx Raz led a timely African Americans.” A temporary display mathematics. WMWP’s fall conference, with her an expertise in writing-pedagogy conversation on social justice pedagogy inside the Armory is dedicated to the “Best Practices in the Teaching of Writing,” design, power relations in the classroom, and addressing race in the First-Year campers’ writing and art. featured one of its teacher-consultants as and writing-instructor development. Writing classroom. Teaching associates WMWP also offered a week-long keynote speaker. Kelly Norris, an English Welcome to both! came away with some ideas for exercises creative writing workshop for middle- and teacher at Minnechaug Regional High This year, the Writing Program and writing assignments that would high-school students on the UMass campus School, read from her recent memoir, Too instituted an informal monthly “coffee encourage College Writing students to in July. These youth writing programs were White: A Journey into the Racial Divide chat” around topics that teaching associates be actively engaged in anti-racist work. two of 96 items listed in WMWP’s 2017–18 (Bink Bopoks, 2018), in which she de- have expressed interest in discussing. Our The Writing Program in spring 2019 will site data, which reported over 1,300 partici- scribes her struggle with identity and race first coffee chat took place in October and sponsor a Social Justice Pedagogy group led pants and 1,200 hours of activities. in America, haunted by the question of centered on using technology effectively in by Arcello. These coffee chats will continue Most WMWP programs focus on what it means to be white. the First-Year Writing classroom. Led by in spring 2019. professional development for educators. In other news, WMWP is undergoing Technology Coordinator Amy Diehl and —Rebecca Dingo, Director, University of Two themes have dominated the site’s re- a leadership transition. Anna Rita Napo- new Graduate Teaching Associate Angela Massachusetts Amherst Writing Program cent work with area teachers: project-based leone, who holds a PhD in composition learning, the focus of year-long workshop and rhetoric from UMass Amherst, is now series in Ashfield and Buckland-Shelburne serving as Writing Center director and elementary schools and South Hadley transitioning into the role of WMWP site middle school; and the College, Career, and director over the year. Community Writers Program (C3WP), a —Bruce Penniman, WMWP Site Director 12 13 AFFILIATED PROGRAMS

Taylor Wise ’16 and Christina Sun ’16 discuss information design in healthcare. Photo: Benjamin Dussault

PWTC GRADUATES, 2018

Lauren Briggs, technical editor, Analog Devices Oxford skyline. Shannon Chan, master of science candidate, Business and Analytics, OXFORD SUMMER SEMINAR Isenberg School of Management On November 26, 1968, The Daily The seminar this past summer dean of Commonwealth Honors College Frances Fleming, technical writer, Collegian published a brief article on the underwent a few changes. In addition to and affiliated with the program for many athenahealth Oxford Summer Seminar, then only two our usual humanities and social sciences years, also visited. It was a true treat to see years old. The article is accompanied by Kristen Forscher, junior technical editor courses, we sponsored two UMass-taught her at high table once more. a picture of the founder, UMass Amherst classes, one in psychology and another in and writer, Rocket Software Oscar Wilde once said, “I have the Professor of English Ernest Hofer, holding communication. We ventured to Stratford simplest tastes. I’m always satisfied with PROGRAM FOR PROFESSIONAL WRITING Alexander Jin, information developer I, what just might be a contract he has signed to see a Royal Shakespeare Company the best.” Trinity College has for 50 years for the upcoming summer. The agreement Rocket Software performance of Romeo and Juliet, which satisfied our simple tastes by quite plainly AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION would move his very new study-abroad was truly magnificent. (For some students, being the best. Here’s to another 50 years Kristen Maher, program assistant, program from St. Hilda’s College, where it the England-Sweden World Cup game of the UMass Oxford Summer Seminar at In fall 2018, PhD candidate Thomas We are gratified and reassured that job Program in Negotiation, Harvard Law had begun, to Trinity College, where the before it was even more magnificent, and Trinity College. Pickering became our program’s teach- placement—thanks in part to notices sent School UMass Oxford Summer Seminar has been definitely had a happier outcome than the —Jen Adams, Director, ing assistant and taught “Introduction by program alumni, now at 360 and count- happily situated for the past 50 years. bloody fate of two star-crossed lovers.) Oxford Summer Seminar to Professional Writing.” Students spoke ing—was very robust. The list of 11 hires Lauren Maher, partnerships coordinator, The seminar celebrated this milestone We also welcomed back some program highly of his dedication, enthusiasm, and and two placements in graduate programs TripAdvisor this past August with a larger-than-usual alumni. Max and Genevieve Slygh, who concern for their intellectual and academic follows. Congratulations to all! high table dinner, at which we all raised met on the program during summer Ashley McDermott, associate telesales well-being. —Janine Solberg and David Toomey, a glass to our Trinity hosts. Before the 2008, stopped in for our 50th reception. business development representative, This year, many program graduates Co-directors, Program for Professional dinner we raised something else: a UMass Ellen Howes (Summer 2015) attended the returned to speak to our classes, sharing Writing and Technical Communication Oracle Minuteman flag, the first flag from a U.S. celebratory dinner. Linda Slakey, former school to fly over that campus. knowledge of developments in software, Matthew Oliver, technical writer, workplace cultures, and long-range career athenahealth planning. Among the returnees were Taylor Wise ’16 and Christina Sun ’16, both Rebecca Regan, technical writer, Teradyne technical writers at athenahealth. As per tradition, Emeritus Professor Gabrielle Sobolewski, information John Nelson made a guest appearance in Many program developer I, Rocket Software the capstone course, and was characteristi- graduates returned to speak to Rachel Sousa, business development cally inspiring. In late May, we hosted the our classes, sharing knowledge representative, Oracle annual program reunion at a local restau- of developments in software, rant, where current students and grads workplace cultures, and long- Emily Zheng, first-year law student, from years past met and mingled. range career planning.” Boston University School of Law

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Hugh MacDiarmid’s “Edinburgh” on Canongate Wall. Photo: D Toomey

BY FACULTY

Robert Bagg, Mary Bagg. Let Us Watch and collectively, these pieces offer fresh resistance against the hegemonic forces of Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study. interpretations of Du Bois’s intertwined eighteenth-century London.... Delightfully University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. vocations as a thinker, literary artist, and subversive.”—Time ALTERNATIVE THEATERS: NAVIGATING “... a fascinating and deeply civilized life activist. An essential collection that will “A mind-bending romp through a .... It rests on long and deep research. It is inspire further debate and scholarship!”— gender-fluid eighteenth-century London ... THE EDINBURGH FESTIVAL well and succinctly told. And it is a true Lawrie Balfour, editor of Political Theory at once very funny and very fierce.”—The critical biography, which slights neither the New York Times (Editors’ Choice) Peter Gizzi. New Poems. The Brother in This past summer marked the 11th year a variety of theatrical strategies, we spent subject’s life nor his work, but presents them “A cunning metafiction of vulpine Elysium, 2017. of the Department of English’s summer two weeks in Edinburgh. This year students as an integrated whole. Richard Wilbur versatility ... an action-adventure tale Nine poems concerned with naming, with study-abroad course “Alternative Theaters: saw between 35 and 50 different perfor- … will live on among the great American with postmodern flourishes; an academic beauty and sadness, with light. With litany, Navigating the Edinburgh Festival.” It also mances over the course of their stay and poets, and this biography rises to its comedy ... an intimate meditation on elegy, and prose, Gizzi continues his pursuit marked the first year in which the program still managed to find time to explore the transcendent subject.”—Tracy Kidder belonging that doubles as a political toward a lyric of reality. Saturated with was officially partnered with the University city, hike up Arthur’s Seat (the mountain “With admirable scholarship and proof.”—The New Yorker luminous detail, they possess, even in their of New Mexico (UNM). in the middle of the medieval city), and acumen, Robert and Mary Bagg provide “A hat tip to Moby-Dick ... a running sorrowing moments, a dizzying freedom. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the rally for an evening cèilidh (Scottish contra much valuable information, from childhood footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges Objects, images, and their histories are world’s largest arts festival, featuring more dancing). to the present, about the life and work of ... one of the most trenchant calls for caught in their half-life, their profoundly than 3,500 performances each day, spread Together, our group saw performanc- a great American poet. Many will wish to progressive action that I have read in a very human afterlife. across 400 different venues. This past year es from Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, reread Richard Wilbur’s poetry in the new long time.”—The New York Times Book I joined theater professor Harley Erdman Canada, Germany, Poland, South Africa, light of context and circumstance that the Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Review as the faculty representatives from UMass; the United States, and the United Kingdom. Baggs provide.”—R. S. Gwynn, poet and Hopper (eds.). A New Companion critic UNM theater professor Dominika Laster These ranged across a variety of forms “Braveheart, the Musical” (from summer 2017). to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell directed the program and her colleague, including cabaret, dance, magic shows, “... a thorough, thoughtful portrait of Companions to Literature and Culture). Photo: Harley Erdman A Tribute to playwright Gregory Moss, rounded out our puppet shows, mask, street spectacle, and the supreme U.S. stylist of the past sixty Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. One of Our team of instructors. We were also joined by more conventional dramatic theatre. We years.”—Paul Muldoon, Times Literary “... offers a freshly innovative way of our own emeritus professor Jenny Spen- even saw a performance in the pitch dark Supplement studying the great drama of England in the Own cer, who founded the course more than a of a shipping container. A number of other Nick Bromell, ed. and contributor. A age of Shakespeare. With an impressive Anthony decade ago and who is now leading groups festivals also occupy the streets of Edin- Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois. array of scholars and critics, this is an of older visitors to the festival. (For more burgh during August: students were able to Caleshu (ed.). This year students University Press of Kentucky, 2018. eloquent tribute and indispensable literary information on Professor Spencer’s pro- attend readings at the Edinburgh Interna- In the Air: saw between 35 and 50 different “Bromell has done a tremendous job companion to the vitality of this fascinating gram, visit “Festival Getaway: Navigating tional Book Festival (the world’s largest of Essays on the performances over the course representing the full range of Du Bois’s field of study.”—David Bevington, the Edinburgh Fringe” at festivalgetaway. its kind), concerts at the Music Festival, Poetry of Peter of their stay and still managed work ... and the theoretical frame he University of Chicago. com.) and some extraordinary exhibitions at Gizzi. Wesleyan to find time to explore the provides to unite that work is persuasive Sixteen students from our two institu- the Arts Festival. We look forward to next Mason Lowance, ed. Amherst Rotary Goes University Press, 2017. city, hike up Arthur’s Seat (the and insightful.”—Jason Frank, Cornell tions witnessed performances from around summer’s edition of the festivals and what to War: Amherst Rotarians in World War “Peter Gizzi is one of America’s mountain in the middle of the University the world and then gathered to meet artists they may hold. II. University of Massachusetts Press, 2018. most significant contributors to medieval city), and rally for an “The essays ... in this superb volume and develop their responses in conversa- —Daniel Sack, Program Advisor, Twenty members of the Amherst Rotary contemporary poetry. As an acclaimed evening cèilidh (Scottish contra open new avenues for understanding tion and writing. After an online course Alternative Theatres: Edinburgh who served in the U.S. armed forces poet, editor, and teacher, his work is dancing).” W.E.B. Du Bois’s contributions to historical introducing students to the Festival and to Fringe Theatre Festival between 1941 and 1945 share their stories, influencing many younger writers in struggles for racial and economic justice, many for the first time. the U.S. and Europe. Anyone interested democracy, and the end of colonial rule, in the current condition of poetry will Jordy Rosenberg. Confessions of the Fox: on one hand, and demonstrate why it is learn from the wide variety of essays A Novel. One World, 2018. so urgent that we struggle with Du Bois’s here.” —Susan Howe, The Birth Mark words today, on the other. Individually “A dazzling tale of queer romance and 16 17 RECENT BOOKS

BY ALUMNI The following represent some of the books written or edited between 2013 and 2018 by graduates of the department’s PhD program:

Christopher Harris. Tulsa. Asphalt House, Andrea Lawlor. Paul Takes the Form of a Christine Davis Merriman. At the Far End 2018. Mortal Girl. Rescue Press, 2017. of Nowhere. Green Place Books, 2018. Dorothea Lasky. Milk. Wave Books, 2018. Mark Leidner. Under the Sea. Tyrant Susie Meserve. Little Prayers. Blue Light Christopher Hanlon. America’s England: Jeffrey Insko. History, Abolition, and the Jean M. Szczypien. Sailing Towards Books, 2018. Press, 2018. Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Poland with Joseph Conrad. Peter Lang Sectionalism. Oxford University Press, Writing. Oxford University Press, 2018. Publishing. 2013. Christopher Vials. Haunted by Hitler: Bridget M. Marshall (co-editor). Christopher Hanlon. Emerson’s Memory Liberals, the Left, and the Fight against Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Fascism in the United States. UMass Press, Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century. Late Style. Oxford University Press, 2017. 2014. Routledge, 2013. Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Christopher Vials. Realism for the Masses: Dawn Lundy Martin. Life in a Box is a Hopper (eds.) A New Companion Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and Pretty Life. Nightboat Books, 2014. to Renaissance Drama (Blackwell U.S. Culture, 1935–1947. University Press Companions to Literature and Culture). Dawn Lundy Martin. Good Stock, Strange of Mississippi, 2013. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. Blood. Coffee House Press, 2017. Christopher Vials (ed.). American Emily Hamilton-Honey. Turning the Philip Palmer (ed.). Coryat’s Crudities: Literature in Transition, 1940–1950. Pages of American Girlhood: The Evolution Selections. Broadview, 2017. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Alexandra Peary of Girls’ Series Fiction, 1865–1930. Nicholas Montemarano. The Senator’s . Prolific Moment: Theory Henk Rossouw. Xamissa. Fordham Lauren Rosenberg. The Desire for Lauren Wright. The Vegan Studies Project: McFarland, 2013. Children. Tin House Books, 2017. and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing. University Press, 2018. Literacy: Writing in the Lives of Adult Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Routledge, 2018. Michael Hoberman. A Hundred Acres Learners. Urbana: NCTE, 2015. Terror. University of Georgia Press, 2015. JoAnna Novak. I Must Have You. Skyhorse Kamila Shamsie. Home Fire. Riverhead Hilary Plum of America: The Geography of Jewish Publishing, 2017. . Strawberry Fields. Fence Books, 2017. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (ed.), Viet Thanh American Literary History, Rutgers Books, 2018. Nguyen (afterword). Flashpoints for Asian- University Press, 2018. American Studies. Fordham University Press, 2018.

The following represent some of the books written during 2017 and 2018 by department MFA graduates:

Kate Southwood. Evensong. W. W. No r t o n Wendy Xu. Phrasis. Fence Books, 2017. Leni Zumas. Red Clocks. Little, Brown. & Company, 2017. 2018. Matthew Zapruder. Why Poetry. Ecco, Natasha Trethewey. Monument. 2017. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. Mira Bartok. The Wonderling. Candlewick, Melissa Caruso. The Defiant Heir. Obit, Kevin Goodan. Anaphora. Alice James 2017. 2018. Books, 2018. Lou Berney. November Road. Christopher DeWeese. The Confessions. Ryan Habermeyer. The Science of Lost HarperCollins, 2018. Periplum, 2017. Futures. BOA Editions Ltd., 2018. GIVING TO THE DEPARTMENT

The English Department is grateful to the alumni and other donors whose contributions and support are key to our creating a vibrant experience for our students. Your generosity allows us to offer student scholarships, to teach innovative courses, and to sponsor visits by internationally renowned writers and scholars. Thank you!

The individuals and organizations below made donations to the Department of English between January 1 and December 31, 2018.

Lynne J. Agress Emily M. Bludworth Donna M. Dejordy Charles Hayden Michael Hunwick Patricia P. Allen Kerry E. Blum Christopher M. Dennis Foundation Terese Hunwick Lois R. Andelman Kristin L. Bock Dette Derr Michelle K. Fowler Dianne Ice Emily M. Anderson Lawrence S. Bohn Michelle M. Derusha Carolyn J. Fulford Randall Ice Jacob Arkin Antidote Books Meghan Dewar Tyler O. Gagne Ryan Ice Christine A. Ashe Kathleen S. Breiten Lynn Dgetluck Ann E. Garner Christopher W. Ivusic Jeannine C. Atkins Sam Brewer Vincent DiMarco John F. Gately II Phoebe S. Jackson Christopher J. Ayala Alan R. Burne Maria DiSano-Niemi Jules Oscar Gaudreau III Jennifer Jacobson Bonnie L. Badin Shannon Amelia Burns Paul M. Didomenico Patrick T. Gaughan Melba P. Jensen Kristine M. Baker Alta-Mae Butler Nicholas Dixon Wendi Gilbert Christine I. Joenk Emily Ball Rosemarie C. Buxton Stephen Dixon Caitlin Gildrien Joseph S. Johnson RETURNING ALUMNI Joshua J. Ballinger Annette Byrdy Tara Dixon Jane P. Gilman Julia Johnson Caroline G. Barba Elizabeth Byrne James J. Dobson Peter G. Gizzi Mikala N. Jones Department of English alumni who, either in person or remotely, shared their experiences with us in 2018. Gail A. Barry Joseph G. Callahan Marie Doherty Dennis L. Goeckel Pamela A. Kelley Attorney John J. Barter Richard F. Callahan Karen J. Donovan John J. Goodhue Attorney Suzanne W. David Bradley ’97, assistant district attorney, Suffolk County Brent Massey ’03, founder and president, Ridar Systems Joseph F. Bartolomeo Diane Caruso Mary V. Dougherty Leonard G. Gougeon Kelley District Attorney’s Office Laura M. Kenney Emily Mias ’13, senior product manager, Drift David R. Bartone J. Scott Cary Meghan C. Driscoll Diane E. Gould Isabelle Broderick-Forster ’13, technical writer, Payfactors Sean Jeffrey Bates Dorothy M. Champlin Emmalie Dropkin Christopher G. Graham Claire J. Keyes Maria Pedone ’12 , director, editorial and social strategy, James L. Beattie Jr. Kenneth L. Chute William D. Dyer James F. Graham Randall K. Knoper Jesse Buday ’05, senior technical documentation specialist, Townhouse Digital Joanne H. Beckman Judith E. Cobb Courtney Elbourne Judith A. Green Jim E. Kobylecky Pegasystems Dan Ronan ’12, technical writer, Brooks Automation Stevie N. Belchak Marsha R. Connor Myra Elbourne Carl R. Haarmann Jr. Alyssa Krawczyk Caroline Cassidy ’10, technical writer, athenahealth Elisabeth E. Bennett Thomas R. Conuel Kelly R. Everding Charlotte A. Haines Nicholas Dimetri Kritikos Garrett Russell ’12, technical writer, Brooks Automation Shevonne Commock, ’12, career navigator, Jewish Vocational Phyllis R. Berdos Christopher C. Cosentino Factory Hollow Press Miss Sheila M. Hallissy Daniel Kubick Angela Simonelli ’05 Service , supervisor, information development, Diane B. Berman Carla A. Costa David Lauren Feinstein James Haug Kevin J. Kyle Rocket Software David R. Bernstein Andrew F. Costello Jr. Martin Feinstein Christian A. Hawkey Richard G. LaFosse John Cooper ’17, technical writer, Waters Corporation Christina Sun ’16, technical writer, athenahealth Gene M. Bernstein Brenda J. Cote Steven F. Ferrara Anne J. Herrington Kevin LaHaise Christie DiJusto ’13, associate editor, Oxford University Press Naftali G. Berrill Elisabeth J. Cotton Anne E. Ferreira Shannon Gabrielle Horte Guy S. Lake Dan Surdyka ’15, web developer, American International College Chanel Dubofsky ’01, freelance writer Jedediah P. Berry Kelly K. Coulsey Jessica L. Fjeld Melissa N. Hubbell Brett Lauer Nick Treiber ’17, technical writer, Akamai Technologies Daniel E. Berthiaume Kevin J. Courtney Michael W. Flanary Kathryn L. Hueber Nancy A. Laughlin Nathan Frontiero ’17, junior copywriter, Brigade Michelle Wade ’13, 412 Youth Zone education coordinator, Robert E. Bessel Mark L. Curelop Karen Foley Camilla S. Humphreys Rachel Lavery Kate (Olesin) Hale ’09, executive editor, National Geographic Kids Auberle Jennifer A. Bielack Wendy J. Curtice Herman J. Fong Emily A. Hunerwadel Robert M. Lavery Books Harold B. Bjornson Jr. Margery L. Daughtrey Elaine I. Fortier Karen Hunerwadel Kelly Law Taylor Wise ’16, technical writer, athenahealth Maria Black Lindsay Deane Jessen Nicole Foster Emily R. Hunt Mark W. Leidner Bryan Hilliard ’93, senior director of sales enablement, Attivio

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The Department of English recognized the achievements of its students at the Annual Scholarship and Awards Celebration on April 24, held for the first time in Old Chapel’s Great Hall.

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