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Critics fall in love with romance novels penned by USF alumna

Critics fall in love with romance novels penned by USF alumna

Alicia Thompson, full-time writer and bestselling author, studied her craft in USF’s College of Arts and Sciences.

February 24, 2025Alumni News

Undergraduate Humanities Conference

Undergraduate Humanities Conference encourages professional and personal growth

Nearly 100 ܽƵapps participated in this year’s Undergraduate Humanities Conference, an event providing real-life experience for future academic, professional and personal challenges.

February 20, 2025Events

World-renowned poets visit the College of Arts and Sciences for poetry series

Celebrating the power of words: World-renowned poets visit the College of Arts and Sciences for poetry series

A new partnership between the USF Humanities Institute and the Michael Kuperman Memorial Library will welcome world-renowned poets to campus to bring ܽƵapps and the community together and empower audiences to pursue their craft.

January 29, 2025Events

$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities

$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities for USF humanities ܽƵapps

For the first time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities — invited the ܽƵapp to submit a proposal last spring for one of its humanities internship grants. The foundation awarded the college a five-year, $4.8 million grant that will support up to 900 ܽƵapps each year in otherwise unpaid internships. The beneficiaries will be undergraduate ܽƵapps majoring in humanities.

January 15, 2025Department News, Honors and Awards

A trio of English ܽƵapps taught the class. Jessica Cook, Michelle Taylor and Emily Jones agreed it made them feel like they’re part of a special intellectual and cultural community.

December 12, 2024English in the News

Natalie Scenters-Zapico

English ܽƵapp featured in 'Best American Poetry'

Natalie Scenters-Zapico, an award-winning poet and assistant ܽƵapp in the Department of English, is gaining global recognition. Scenters-Zapico, who shapes the local literary community as director of the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library, has a poem in the prestigious “Best American Poetry” anthology, cementing her work as essential reading at USF and for audiences across the country.

November 22, 2024Department News

Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado

USF ܽƵapp’s new sci-fi novella, “Time’s Agent,” explores love, loss, time travel, and robots

With the publication of her new book, “Time’s Agent,” Department of English Assistant Professor Brenda Peynado reflects on her professional journey to this point and offers advice to other creatives looking to enter the field.

September 24, 2024Department News, Publications

ܽƵapp: A Preeminent Research ܽƵapp

Dr. Valerie Lipscomb contributes expertise on literature and aging in new book

Dr. Valerie Barnes Lipscomb served as a lead editor and contributor on the recently published “The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging,” which features more than 30 contributors on three continents and 200,000 words of new scholarship.

September 16, 2024Department News, Publications

English doctoral ܽƵapps travel to Spain

English doctoral ܽƵapps travel to Spain to lead panel discussion on Hemingway

Three doctoral ܽƵapps in the Department of English presented their research at the 2024 Hemingway Society Conference in San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain in July.

August 27, 2024Department News

Olajide Omojarabi, a third-year MFA ܽƵapp in the creative writing program. (Photo courtesy of Olajide Omojarabi)

Graduate ܽƵapp Olajide Omojarabi’s story House No. 49 earns shortlist recognition by Commonwealth Foundation

Olajide Omojarabi, a third-year master of fine arts creative writing ܽƵapp in the Department of English, has been shortlisted for his short story “House No. 49” by the Commonwealth Foundation.

July 26, 2024Honors and Awards

Julie Buckner Armstrong, known for her expertise in the civil rights movement and southern literature, has been named the Duckwall Professor of Florida Studies for the 2024-2026 academic years. As part of the Duckwall Professorship, Armstrong will begin focusing on her next book, an anthology of literary works from Florida.

June 6, 2024Department News

Attendees at the Humanities Institute open house event enjoying breakfast in the newly renovated office space. (Photo by Corey Lepak)

The Humanities Institute celebrates its growth both in a newly renovated space and for the future

The Humanities Institute welcomed the USF community to its newly renovated space through an open house.

May 29, 2024Department News, Events

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