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Our faculty and students participate in numerous individual and collaborative research projects.
Faculty News
Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., associate professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies and of African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named director of the Frederick Douglass Institute in the School of Arts & Sciences. The Department of English is delighted to welcome him to the university and we are exited to work with him.
Inspiration Project
The Inspiration Project, sponsored by the Literary Arts Program, is now recruiting volunteers for its 11th season! Students will be paired with adults from CP Rochester to help them create works of creative fiction and non-fiction. All meetings will be held virtually this year from mid-February through April 2021. If interested, please email Erin Francisco at efranci8@ur.rochester.edu.
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Feature Story
Multispectral Imaging collaboration between U of R and RIT
On January 6, the "Connections with Evan Dawson" radio program on WXXI highlighted a recent discovery by RIT students using multispectral imaging. Their work, part of an ongoing collaboration with the Lazarus Lab at University of Rochester, discovered lost text on a 15th-century manuscript, revealing it was a palimpsest. Gregory Heyworth, associate professor of English and textual science and director of the Lazarus Lab, and Madeline Rose, a Take 5 Scholar in English literature, computational linguistics, and classical mythology and ethics, were among those interviewed.
Listen Here126internships and research projects
In the last two years, undergraduates have completed 126 English Department honors theses, local and national internships, and independent research projects.
Alumni in the News
Kali Quinn '03
BA in English
Via Rochester Review: "What’s Your Script?"
Through ‘compassionate creativity,’ theater artist Kali Quinn ’03 finds her own script, and helps others find theirs. Artwork: David Cowles for Rochester Review
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