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Congratulations to Dr. Nichole Rougeau-Vanderford on costuming her tenth production with Basin Theatre Works!
08/01/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Nichole Rougeau-Vanderford on costuming her tenth production with Basin Theatre Works!

Todd Richardson presented his paper “Teaching Thoreau’s Art of Walking in the Age of AI” at the Thoreau Society Annual G...
07/18/2026

Todd Richardson presented his paper “Teaching Thoreau’s Art of Walking in the Age of AI” at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering in Concord, Massachusetts earlier this month. Pictured here is Henry Thoreau’s Yellow House, the newly unveiled statue of Margaret Fuller at the Concord Free Public Library, and a selfie of Richardson in front of the Old Manse.

Todd Richardson presenting his paper “Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the Body and Soul of Resistance in John Dos P...
06/02/2026

Todd Richardson presenting his paper “Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the Body and Soul of Resistance in John Dos Passos’s _Three Soldiers_” in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal on May 22.

Congratulations to English graduates! Pictured here in recessional march are Victoria Gonzalez, Magdalena Ceniceros, Ho...
05/09/2026

Congratulations to English graduates! Pictured here in recessional march are Victoria Gonzalez, Magdalena Ceniceros, Hope Duran, Cielbi Clark. We are very proud of you.

Congratulations to Blakke Davis for her defense of her excellent thesis Breaking the Binaries of Capitalism in the Hybri...
04/21/2026

Congratulations to Blakke Davis for her defense of her excellent thesis Breaking the Binaries of Capitalism in the Hybrid World of The Last of Us.

This past week, English faculty, Dr. Nichole Rougeau-Vanderford and Clark Moreland, presented their IRW approach at AAC&...
04/20/2026

This past week, English faculty, Dr. Nichole Rougeau-Vanderford and Clark Moreland, presented their IRW approach at AAC&U’s national Conference on Learning and Student Success. Assisted by Cesar Sanchez, Director of UTPB’s Developmental Education program, they workshopped student success initiatives and bringing community members into the classroom to support and connect citizenry to writing education.

(UTPB English faculty and students are really on a roll presenting their research these past few months!)

Dr. Rebecca Babcock and one of our valued adjuncts Sheen Sheena Stief presented at CCCC March 4-7 in Cleveland, OH. Shee...
04/20/2026

Dr. Rebecca Babcock and one of our valued adjuncts Sheen Sheena Stief presented at CCCC March 4-7 in Cleveland, OH.
Sheena presented in the panel "Don’t Call It Professional Development: Extending Conversations in Dual Enrollment Composition."

Rebecca had three presentations: "Writing Successful Research Proposals," "Their Conference and Their Conversations: Building an Undergraduate Community through the Naylor Workshop and an Undergraduate Research Journal,"and "Discourse Analysis: A Program Conversation with a Dean."

Dr. Marlon Fick and several students presented UTPB English at the Popular Culture Association conference in Atlanta, GA...
04/17/2026

Dr. Marlon Fick and several students presented UTPB English at the Popular Culture Association conference in Atlanta, GA, April 8-11.

Paper topics included:
Estefania Daza (grad student), "The Inhuman Shape: The Horror of Transformation in Werewolf Media"

Nadya Jackson (undergraduate student), "A Snapshot of the Societal Impact of Disability Representation in Media as Viewed Through The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros"

Lexi Spencer (grad student), "William Seabrook's Controversial Legacy: It's Complicated"

Marlon Fick (faculty), "Mustaf, Epstein, and Trump: Trajectories of Fiction and Revenge to Assuage Injustice" and "Letters from Home: Poems in Captivity"

12/06/2025

Congratulations to Hannah Grace Bolting on her successful defense of her Master’s project “Transcending Boundaries: Gender and Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.”

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