Recent News

D. M. Aderibigbe

Assistant Professor

82nd Division (Akashic Books, forthcoming). Poetry. Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, 2024.

Dr. Joshua Bernstein

Associate Professor

Rachel's Tomb (New Issues Press, June 2019). Novel. Winner of the Associations of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series Novel Prize and the Hackney Novel Prize.
 

Desert Castles (Southern Indiana Review Press, June 2019). Chapbook. Winner of the Wilhelmus Award.

Olivia Clare Friedman

Associate Professor

Here Lies (Grove Press, 2022). Novel. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, 2022.

Monika Gehlawat

Professor

In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature (New York: Routledge, 2020).

Dr. Nickalus Rupert

Alumni, (PhD 2019)

Dr. Rupert's story collection, Bosses of Light and Sound, was selected by Kevin Canty as the winner of the prestigious Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and was published by Willow Springs Books

 Jon Riccio

Alumni, (PhD 2020)

Dr. Riccio's full-length collection, Agoreography, is forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press.

Dr. Jessica Guzman

Alumni, (PhD, 2019)

Dr. Guzman's collection Adelante was selected by Patricia Smith as winner of the 2019 Gatewood Prize and was published by Switchback Books in 2020.