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  • Richard Kopley
    2/4/26
    Edgar Allen Poet: A Life, a new book by #UBuffalo alumnus (English PhD 1982) and Penn State DuBois Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Kopley, was nominated for an Edgar Award in the Biographical/Critical category by the Mystery Writers of America. Congratulations! Professor Kopley began his studies of Poe with Leslie Fiedler at the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Christina Williamson
    1/30/26
    UB alumnus (Class of 1993) debut novel, FIVE MILLION MOMENTS, will be published in February 2026.  Congratulations, Christine (Goldie) Williamson!
  • Christine Varnado
    1/27/26
    Congratulations to #UBuffalo English and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at UB Professor Christine Varnado! An essay collection she co-edited with Lauren Shohet (Villanova University), : , , , has just been published. An eclectic group of essays on early modern poetry, theatre, material culture, theology, humor, among other things, it includes an introduction co-written by the two editors titled “What’s Queer About (Early Modern) Death?”
  • Congratulations Jay Barber
    10/21/25
    Congratulations to Jay Barber, whose "Weaving Science into Creative Writing: Integrating Interdisciplinarity into Young Adult Learning" has been published in !
  • Fiona Serrano UB Senior
    5/13/25
    Fiona Serrano is a senior majoring in English, global gender studies and history, with a minor in Jewish studies. This summer, she will travel to Latvia to study Russian through the CLS. Serrano sees the program as a crucial step toward her goal of becoming a professor specializing in Soviet, Eastern European and Russian history.
  • Congratulations Tanya Shilina-Conte
    11/4/24
    Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tanya Shilina-Conte, who received a $5000 Faculty Grant for Global and International Research from the Office of International Education for her new book project, "Anonymous Cinema in the Global Age!"
  • Congratulations Kelli Sharp
    10/30/24
    Congratulations to #UBuffalo Department of English Clinical Assistant Professor Kellie Sharp, who has been awarded a Civic Engagement Research Fund grant to collaborate with the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project to bring local queer history to various sites around Buffalo in June 2025! This will happen in the form of interactive pop-up museums so visitors can learn about our local history and contribute to it in the form of oral history interviews. Read more by visiting
  • Congratulations Jocelyn Marshall
    10/2/24
    Congratulations to Jocelyn E. Marshall who has been awarded the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association x University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. Reviewers noted of her submission, “Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism:”
  • Congratulations PhD Candidate Spencer Williams
    9/20/24
    Spencer Williams, whose debut collection of poems was just published by Four Way Books. https://fourwaybooks.com/site/tranz/