The Literature Program at Stockton University

👏 Congratulations to Paige Cripps, who presented and won Second Prize for her essay at the New Jersey Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Research Symposium held at TCNJ last Friday. Paige is a Literature Major with a concentration in Creative Writing. Her essay was titled “In Rooms Where Women Worked, Reading Sedgwick, Remembering Fanny.” Way to go, Paige!

Check out this Spotlight Q&A with the Literature Program's Professor Deborah Gussman about her digital project, the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters, and the award she and her editorial team recently received from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers!

Spotlight On: Deborah Gussman Deborah Gussman, professor of Literature at Stockton, has been named the first recipient of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers’ (SSAWW) Recovery Hub Digital Edition Prize, a new national award recognizing excellence in the digital recovery and publication of American women’s wri...

2025 Word of the Year: Slop Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year

https://stockton.edu/news/2025/tom-kinsella-establishes-historic-south-jersey-fund.html

Donation Supports Special Collections, Preserves Local History Professor Kinsella’s gift establishes Historic South Jersey Fund

I cannot imagine a better timeline detox than the incredible news that Reading Rainbow 🌈 is getting a reboot, and that Mychal the Librarian will be the new host. My god, we need this right now, on so many levels.

We love you, Mychal! 💕💕💕

{image is a photo of Mychal Threets standing in the children’s section of the library, showing off a t-shirt that reads, “Bans off our books!” His smile, as always, is contagious.} l