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McVicker Scholarship winners announced
Four students have achieved distinction as recipients of the Jeanette McVicker Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies for 2022: Haileigh Pawlak, Kristin White, Amber Ambrose and Jessica Keeler.
Jarvis’s Vonnegut scholarship continues to shine
Department of English Professor Christina Jarvis has published the entry on Kurt Vonnegut in “The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980-2020,” which has been released in electronic format on Wiley Online Library and in print.
McVicker, alumna Stenson to present scholarly work at Woolf conference
Department of English Professor Jeanette McVicker will have an essay published in the academic journal Woolf Studies Annual this summer and will also give a paper at the annual conference on Virginia Woolf, sponsored by Lamar University and held virtually June 9-12.
Buffalo community activist to give poetry performance
Spoken word artist Jillian Hanesworth, a community activist/organizer in Buffalo and SUNY Fredonia graduate, will give an in-person poetry performance as part of the Mary Louise White Visiting Writer Series at The Spot at Tim Hortons in the Williams Center on April 28.
Narrative installation ‘Lost in the Woods’ taps into art, writing students’ talents
A steady flow of students and other visitors toured an interdisciplinary immersive narrative installation, created by SUNY Fredonia students enrolled in writing and art courses, on an unusually warm December afternoon.
Cuthbert short story earns ‘Honorable Mention’ in writers contest
"The Six O'Clock House," a speculative short story written by Department of English Lecturer Rebecca Cuthbert, earned Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, 3rd Quarter.
President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning lecture slated for Dec. 1
Dr. Ann Siegle Drege will present the lecture on Dec. 1, “Engagement through Active Learning” as the 2020 recipient of the President’s Award for Teaching and Learning.
McRae's work on gender, digital culture featured in NeON Digital Arts Festival
NEoN, a charitable arts organization based in Dundee, Scotland, commissioned Department of English Professor Shannon McRae to write an exhibition piece for their digital reading room addressing the year's Digital Arts Festival theme of “Wired Women.”
Cuthbert has poem published in Memoryhouse Magazine
Department of English Adjunct Lecturer Rebecca Cuthbert had her poem, "In Memory of Exoskeletons," published in the Memoryhouse Magazine's "Albeit" issue.
Award-winning author of ‘Amphibians,’ Lara Tupper, to give craft talk, reading
Lara Tupper, whose short-story collection “Amphibians” was a Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize winner, will present a virtual craft talk on Wednesday, Sept. 29, and a virtual fiction reading on Thursday, Sept. 30, as part of the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series.