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R. Benedito Ferrão, Associate Professor of English & Asian and Pacific Islander American Studies, has written a new book and will celebrate its launch with a gallery exhibit in Goa.

Six �鶹�ƽ�� undergraduates braved icy roads Jan. 29 to represent the university at the second annual Network for Undergraduate Research in Virginia (NURVa) showcase at the State Capitol in Richmond.

The Charles Center is hosting a free exhibition celebrating the work of last summer’s multi-talented Catron Scholars in the Sadler Center Hart Gallery from Nov. 10 through Dec. 5, with a special reception to be held 5-7 p.m. on Nov. 13.

As part of its mission to support undergraduate research across disciplines, the Charles Center is supporting seven undergraduates in their artistic pursuits over the summer through the Louis E. Catron Scholarship for Artistic Development.

The Charles Center is collaborating with campus partners to bring three writers-in-residence to campus in 2025-26 to teach a variety of hands-on journalism courses for undergraduates.

The Hayes Translation Festival features award-winning literary translators that will share their work and talk about the art of translation during three days of readings, class visits, and panel discussions. Presented in partnership with the W&M Creative Writing Program.

Six �鶹�ƽ�� students joined researchers from across Virginia for the inaugural Undergraduate Research Showcase at the Capitol Feb. 6 in Richmond’s General Assembly Building.

Erin Webster, now an English professor and director of the English Honors program at �鶹�ƽ��, initially didn't plan on a teaching career, but now finds great joy in teaching at �鶹�ƽ��, primarily due to the quality and engagement of her students.

In writing her English honors thesis, Shawna Alston ‘25 calls upon many muses, including renowned scholars and artists — from Lucille Clifton to Toni Morrison — as well as faculty and students in the �鶹�ƽ�� Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience (WMSURE) community who provide invaluable support and inspiration each day.

The Williamsburg Public Art Council and the City of Williamsburg is launching a Poet Laureate program and are looking for applications.

Students in �鶹�ƽ��’s incubator for investigative reporting — the Sharp Journalism Seminar — shared insights from their research and writing journeys March 26 in the Grimsley Board Room (Blow 201).

Please see below all of the Spring 2022 Hayes Writers Series authors. All are welcome.

As the world anxiously awaited the first COVID-19 vaccine, Colleen Gorman ’95 played a crucial role at Pfizer in ensuring that correct practices were being followed during clinical trials and preventing any issues that arose from being repeated.

Professor Dawn Edmiston, a clinical professor of marketing at �鶹�ƽ��’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business, was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar at Tallinn University in Estonia in 2019.

Elizabeth Losh, Duane A. & Virginia S. Dittman Professor of English & American Studies at �鶹�ƽ��, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar for 2021-22.

Hermine Pinson, the Frances L. & Edwin L. Cummings Professor of English and Africana Studies at W&M, will explore some of her favorite pieces of work in the fall 2021 Tack Faculty Lecture.

Kathryn “Kate” Donati ’20 reached the conclusion that community exists even when we cannot see it shortly after �鶹�ƽ�� switched to remote learning amid COVID-19 in the spring of 2020.

A full slate of performances, writing talks and exhibitions open to the university and local communities is planned for the fall at �鶹�ƽ��.

For years, Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse’s classes on Victorian fiction and the Brontës have been popular with W&M students from a variety of majors. Now, anyone can experience Morse’s fascinating lectures through her new course on Audible.

If Blackstone is a small pond, then Billy Coleburn ’90 is a big fish as both mayor of the 3,600-person Southside Virginia town and editor of the independently owned Courier-Record newspaper.

White House Press Secretary and �鶹�ƽ�� alumna Jen Psaki ’00 will speak at the university’s 2021 Opening Convocation ceremony, scheduled for Sept. 8 at 8 p.m. in the Wren Yard.

The W&M Student Literary Awards are an annual contest recognizing achievement in student writing, sponsored by the Creative Writing program and the Department of English. The awards are open to all �鶹�ƽ�� students. Independent judges decide winners and runners-up in each of five categories: Group of Poems, Short Fiction, Single Poem, Creative Nonfiction and Drama/Screenwriting.

W&M News recently spoke with R. Benedito Ferrão, assistant professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies, to discuss the history and roots of anti-Asian sentiment and violence in the U.S. and abroad.

�鶹�ƽ�� alumna Jen Psaki '00 has been named the next White House press secretary by U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who will take office in January.

Amid the chaos of the pandemic, Mark Richard finds stability as �鶹�ƽ��’s Class of 1939 Artist in Residence

This past summer, four students from Professor Melanie Dawson’s Twentieth Century Women Authors class were given the opportunity to work with her on a Definitive Edition Lab focused on Edith Wharton’s 1925 novel The Mother’s Recompense. The authors of this piece were lucky enough to be two of those students. While Professor Dawson has been working on this edition for the Oxford University Press for four years, we only joined for five weeks. Though the pandemic created more challenges than expected, we were determined to make the most of our short time together. So, what is a Definitive Edition Lab and how does one work in one? And how does a pandemic complicate that work?

Using a new online platform, performers from the �鶹�ƽ�� community will unite with various artists from across the country to honor giants of social justice.

A finalized design concept for the Memorial to the African Americans Enslaved by �鶹�ƽ�� was presented to the Board of �鶹�ƽ��ors Tuesday.

W&M Professor Jack Martin used time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic to finish a revised Choctaw dictionary that was four years in the making.

Watch our 2020 graduates as they parade across our virtual stage.

The W&M Student Literary Awards are an annual contest recognizing achievement in student writing, sponsored by the Creative Writing program and the Department of English. The awards are open to all �鶹�ƽ�� students. Independent judges decide winners and runners-up in each of five categories: Group of Poems, Short Fiction, Single Poem, Creative Nonfiction and Drama/Screenwriting.

Leslie Cochrane, senior lecturer of English and linguistics at �鶹�ƽ��, will be awarded the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award at a Jan. 29 ceremony.

Attendees can experience a wide variety of topics, sights and sounds during the spring semester's arts happenings at �鶹�ƽ��.

Listen to an interview with Professor Alicia Andrzejewski on "With Good Reason," and learn all about Shakespeare's non-traditional families - just in time for the holidays.

The DOG Street Journal recently profiled Professor Brian Castleberry. Read all about his new novel, his teaching, and the time he met Beyoncé.

Suzanne Hagedorn, associate professor of English and affiliated faculty with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program at �鶹�ƽ��, has been researching St. William ever since a trip to Rochester Cathedral in England three years ago.

�鶹�ƽ�� assistant English professor Jon Pineda recently won a Library of Virginia Literary Award for his novel "Let's No One Get Hurt."

English faculty member Deborah Morse will give fall Tack Lecture, “Liberating Black Beauty: A narrative on animal rights, gender, race and nation,” on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Sadler Center’s Commonwealth Auditorium.

R. Benedito Ferrão, an assistant professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American studies, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to India in the field of literature.

Faculty in the English Department share their thoughts on the passing of one of America's greatest contemporary writers.

Former �鶹�ƽ�� women's soccer standout Jill Ellis '88, L.H.D. ’16 and the U.S. Women's National Team won the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands on Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France.