{"id":366,"date":"2020-03-19T14:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:55:00","slug":"faculty-achievements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/department-news\/faculty-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 4527px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 24px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Ethan Rutherford<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Ethan Rutherford<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethanrutherford.com\/farthestsouth\">his story<\/a>, <em>Farthest South,<\/em> published in <a href=\"https:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/articles\/ethan-rutherford\"><em>BOMB Magazine<\/em><\/a> on January 15, 2020. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethanrutherford.com\">debut novel<\/a>, <em>North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther,\u00a0<\/em>is one of six novels to be a <em><strong>finalist<\/strong> <\/em>for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/2025-national-book-awards-finalists-announced\">2025 National Book Awards<\/a> for Fiction.\u00a0Additionally, former President Barack Obama has named\u00a0<em>North Sun\u00a0<\/em>as <a href=\"https:\/\/barackobama.medium.com\/here-are-my-favorite-books-movies-and-music-of-2025-7139a0bdaf5b\">one of his favorite novels<\/a> of 2025.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 24px\">\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1931 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/ethan-headshot.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/ethan-headshot.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/ethan-headshot-240x300.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 25px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2005 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-681x1024.png 681w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-768x1155.png 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-1022x1536.png 1022w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-1362x2048.png 1362w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-1-scaled.png 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 25px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Sarah Bilston<\/h5>\n<p>Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of English<strong> Sarah Bilston<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahbilston.org\/speaking-of-suburbia\">book<\/a>, <i>The Promise of the Suburbs<\/i>\u00a0was selected by CHOICE as an Outstanding Academic Title, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Bilston received the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a> (NEH) fellowship for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahbilston.org\/the-lost-orchid\">latest book<\/a>, <em>The Lost Orchid<\/em>: <i>A Story of Victorian Plunder &amp; Obsession<\/i>, which earned a Kirkus Starred Review. <em>The Economist <\/em>has named <em>The Lost Orchid\u00a0<\/em>as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/culture\/2025\/11\/20\/the-best-books-of-2025\">best books to read in 2025<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 604px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 604px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Chris Hager<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/internet3.trincoll.edu\/facprofiles\/default.aspx?fid=1310838\">Hobart Professor of the Humanities<\/a> <strong>Chris Hager&#8217;s<\/strong> first book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christopherhager.com\/books\">Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0won the <a href=\"https:\/\/macmillan.yale.edu\/trinity-college-professor-wins-sixteenth-annual-frederick-douglass-book-prize\">2014 Frederick Douglass Prize<\/a> for the best book of the year on the subject of slavery. The research for his latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/books\/9780674737648\"><em>I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters<\/em><\/a>, was supported by a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is also a contributor to <a href=\"https:\/\/dsp.domains.trincoll.edu\/HL\/hidden-literacies\/index\">Hidden Literacies<\/a>, a digital project highlighting overlooked historical texts and the roles of reading and writing in the lives of marginalized Americans.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 604px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2335 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/chris-posing-demurely-210x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/chris-posing-demurely-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/chris-posing-demurely.png 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 434px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 434px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2339 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-1-300x265.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-1-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-1.png 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 434px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">David Rosen<\/h5>\n<p>James J. Goodwin Professor of English <strong>David Rosen<\/strong> received the Modern Language Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2015\/along-the-walk\/rosen-wins-top-honor-for-book\/#:~:text=David%20Rosen%2C%20professor%20of%20English,%2C%20Literature%2C%20and%20Liberal%20Personhood.\">James Russell Lowell Prize<\/a> (2013), awarded for co-authoring <em><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300155419\/the-watchman-in-pieces\/\">The Watchman in Pieces<\/a>: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood<\/em> with Aaron Santesso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The Watchman in Pieces<\/em> is an erudite, major addition to surveillance studies. Like Weber, Habermas, and Foucault, though with many differences, the authors are &#8216;rethinking the history of modernity.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 443px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 443px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Ben Woodard<\/h5>\n<p>Visiting Lecturer in English <strong>Benjamin Woodard\u2019s<\/strong> fiction has appeared in <em>Cutleaf, Hobart, F(r)iction, New South, Joyland, SmokeLong Quarterly,<\/em> and other journals; two of his stories (&#8220;Half Tank&#8221; and \u201cOther People,&#8221; respectively) were selected for the 2019 and 2021 editions of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminjwoodard.com\/publications\/book\/\">Best Microfiction<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>In 2017, he was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smokelong.com\/2017-kathy-fish-finalists-announced\/\">finalist for the Kathy Fish Fellowship<\/a> for his work in <a href=\"https:\/\/benjaminjwoodard.com\">flash fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 443px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2353 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-3-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-3-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-3-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-3-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-3-735x980.png 735w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-3-555x740.png 555w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-3.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 488px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 488px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2347 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-2-214x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-2-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/12\/Untitled-design-2.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 488px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Tennyson O&#8217;Donnell<\/h5>\n<p>As Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/writing-center\/\">Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric<\/a> and Allan K. Smith Principal Lecturer in English Composition, <strong>Tennyson O&#8217;Donnell<\/strong> received the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/dean-of-faculty\/meet-the-faculty\/faculty-teaching-and-research-prizes\/\">Mentoring Students Prize<\/a>, a Trinity College Faculty Excellence Award (2024).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 24px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Lucy Ferriss<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Lucy Ferriss<\/strong>, former Writer-in-Residence, won the <a href=\"http:\/\/lucyferriss.com\/books\/a-sister-to-honor\">Brighthorse Books Prize<\/a> for her story collection <em>FOREIGN CLIMES.<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 24px\">\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1933 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/lucy-ferriss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/lucy-ferriss.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/lucy-ferriss-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/lucy-ferriss-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 24px\">\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1927 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/fransisco-goldman.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1433\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 24px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Francisco Goldman<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/the-art-of-political-murder\"><em>The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?<\/em> <\/a>by <strong>Francisco Goldman<\/strong>, Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature, has been made into a <a href=\"https:\/\/press.wbd.com\/na\/media-release\/hbos-art-political-murder-real-life-political-thriller-about-investigation-murder\">documentary<\/a> (<i>An HBO Documentary Films release)<\/i> and was to be featured at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. It aired on HBO October 13, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/monkey-boy\">novel<\/a> <em>Monkey Boy<\/em> was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and winner of an American Book Award. Additionally, his <a href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/say-her-name\">novel<\/a> <em>Say Her Name<\/em>, which received the prestigious Prix Femina \u00c9tranger in France, is in development as a feature <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/adria-arjona-wagner-moura-gerardo-naranjo-say-her-name-1235519129\/\">film<\/a> with Fabula Films and Wonderful Films.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Goldman is currently at work on a new novel and continues to write essays and literary pieces, including recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/francisco-goldman\">contributions<\/a> to <em>The New Yorker<\/em> and a prologue for an upcoming collection of Roque Dalton\u2019s poetry in translation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 512px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 512px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Aaron Caycedo-Kimura<\/h5>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aaron Caycedo-Kimura<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Visiting Lecturer in English, was awarded a Connecticut Office of the Arts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.ct.gov\/decdartsportal\/knowledge-base\/articles\/grants\/artist-fellowship\/fy25-recipients?language=en_US\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">2025 Artist Fellowship Grant<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">His poem \u201cDad Called It <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Camp<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d was anthologized in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/books\/2536-the-gate-of-memory\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> (Haymarket Books, 2025).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Recent literary journal publications include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apjpoetry.org\/floating-clouds-aaron-kimura\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Floating Clouds<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">American Poetry Journal<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Issue 20, October 2025), <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/diodepoetry.com\/caycedo-kimura_aaron\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cGrandmother\u201d and \u201cElegy for Minnie Negoro\u201d<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Diode<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Issue 18.2, June 2025), <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordonsquarereview.org\/caycedo-kimura.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Girl at a Sewing Machine<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gordon Square Review<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Issue 15, May 2025), and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodriverreview.com\/post\/aaron-caycedo-kimura\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cSearch &amp; Rescue\u201d<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Good River Review<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Spring 2025).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">His full-length book of poetry, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Common-Grace-P1852.aspx\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Common Grace<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, was published by Beacon Press in 2022, and his chapbook <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writerscenter.org\/product-page\/ubasute\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ubasute<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which won the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition, was published in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 512px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1941 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/aaron-caycedo-kimura-headshot-1-235x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/aaron-caycedo-kimura-headshot-1-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/aaron-caycedo-kimura-headshot-1.png 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 341px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 341px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2001 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Bacote-matte--500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 341px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Catina Bacote<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Catina Bacote<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English, was a <a href=\"https:\/\/ritm.yale.edu\/catina-bacote\">2024 Mellon Arts and Practitioner Fellow<\/a> at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Among other honors, Bacote has received fellowships from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeromefdn.org\/past-grantees?discipline=7&amp;from=&amp;grant_type=20&amp;keys=&amp;program=All&amp;region=13&amp;to=&amp;page=0\">Jerome Foundation<\/a> and the American Association of University Women. Her essay, <em>The Funk of Defiance, The Freedom of Refusal<\/em> appeared in the anthology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/bending-genre-9781501386091\"><em>Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction<\/em><\/a> (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her book chronicling the lasting impact of the illegal drug trade on families and communities will be published by Holt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 568px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 568px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Ciaran Berry<\/h5>\n<p data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"617\"><strong data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"175\">Ciaran Berry, <\/strong>Professor of English &amp; Co-Director of Creative Writing, is the author of <em data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"201\">States<\/em> (2025), his fourth collection of poems, published by The Gallery Press. Praised in <em data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"302\">The Irish Times<\/em> as a \u201cfirework display of a book\u201d (Declan Ryan) and in <em data-start=\"358\" data-end=\"381\">Poetry Ireland Review<\/em> for its \u201cbeautifully wrought, long lines and intricate stanzas [that] require the reader\u2019s full attention but repay it handsomely\u201d (Ben Keatinge), <em data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"537\">States<\/em> affirms Berry\u2019s reputation as a poet of lyric precision and expansive vision.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"985\">This fall, Berry will be giving readings across Connecticut, including the Riverwood Poetry Series at Real Art Ways in Hartford (October 8), Wordhouse at the Noah Webster House in West Hartford (October 15), and the Connecticut Literary Festival (October 18). In the new year, he will appear at the Hoppin Gallery, Barney Library, in Farmington (January 10, 2026).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"987\" data-end=\"1342\">More about <em data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1006\">States<\/em> and his previous books can be found at <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gallerypress.com\/product\/states\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1107\">The Gallery Press<\/a> or on <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ciaranberry.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1164\">his author website<\/a>. He also recently discussed the new collection in an <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio\/radio1\/poetry-people\/2025\/0629\/1520955-poetry-people-sunday-29-june-2025\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1218\" data-end=\"1339\">RT\u00c9 Radio interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 568px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2013 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/ciaran-2.0-wooo-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/ciaran-2.0-wooo-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/ciaran-2.0-wooo.png 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 592px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 592px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2167 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/DSB.SWO_.Holy_.Trinity.Church.April2025-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/DSB.SWO_.Holy_.Trinity.Church.April2025-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/DSB.SWO_.Holy_.Trinity.Church.April2025-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/DSB.SWO_.Holy_.Trinity.Church.April2025-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/DSB.SWO_.Holy_.Trinity.Church.April2025-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/DSB.SWO_.Holy_.Trinity.Church.April2025-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/DSB.SWO_.Holy_.Trinity.Church.April2025-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 592px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">David Sterling Brown<\/h5>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.davidsterlingbrown.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.davidsterlingbrown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">David Sterling Brown<\/a>\u00a0\u201906\u2014Associate Professor of English and author of\u00a0<i><a title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeares-White-Others-David-Sterling\/dp\/1009384163\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shakespeares-White-Others-David-Sterling\/dp\/1009384163\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-ogsc=\"\">Shakespeare\u2019s White Others<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge UP 2023)\u2014served as the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/news\/abroad-with-the-bard-for-shakespeares-official-birthday-celebration\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/news\/abroad-with-the-bard-for-shakespeares-official-birthday-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-ogsc=\"\">2025 inaugural Visiting Scholar<\/a>\u00a0for England\u2019s National Shakespeare Birthday Celebration where he delivered a moving\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BQCY4Mv9Wco\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BQCY4Mv9Wco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"3\" data-ogsc=\"\">speech<\/a>\u00a0that closed out the weeklong event.<\/p>\n<p>His public-facing work was recently recognized by the American Council of Learned Societies, which also awarded Brown in 2021 the prestigious Scholars and Society\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.acls.org\/fellow-grantees\/david-sterling-brown\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acls.org\/fellow-grantees\/david-sterling-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-ogsc=\"\">Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0that facilitated his residency with Claudia Rankine\u2019s The Racial Imaginary Institute, of which he remains a full-time\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.theracialimaginary.org\/contributors\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theracialimaginary.org\/contributors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\" data-ogsc=\"\">curatorial team<\/a>\u00a0member.<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s most recent peer-reviewed publications include:\u00a0\u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/journal.transformativeworks.org\/index.php\/twc\/article\/view\/2717\/3221\" href=\"https:\/\/journal.transformativeworks.org\/index.php\/twc\/article\/view\/2717\/3221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\" data-ogsc=\"\">Baldwin, Shakespeare, Whiteness and (Anti)Fandom: \u2018What\u2019s Love Got to Do with It?\u2019<\/a>\u201d (<i>Transformative Works and Cultures<\/i>, 2024); \u201cIn Authenticity: (De)Valuing Same-Gender-<i>Loving<\/i>\u00a0\u201cBlaQueer\u201d Men in Higher Education\u201d (<i>The Journey: Truths of Same-Gender-Loving Black Males in Higher Education<\/i>); and \u201cShakespeare Under the Hood: Teaching, Researching and Learning Shakespeare from Within\u201d (<i>Shakespeare Survey<\/i>, 2025).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 448px\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 448px\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"82\">Alejandro Heredia<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Alejandro Heredia<\/strong>, Artist-in-Residence for English, is a queer Afro Dominican writer and community organizer from The Bronx. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.centerforfiction.org\/item\/gQpiPqSJBXgSfXoQvGVahg\"><em data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"202\">Loca<\/em> <\/a>(Simon &amp; Schuster), which has been shortlisted for <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforfiction.org\/book-recs\/2025-first-novel-prize-shortlist\">The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize<\/a>, and the story collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theauburnavenue.com\/youre-the-only-friend-i-need\"><em data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"342\">You\u2019re the Only Friend I Need<\/em><\/a> (2021).<\/p>\n<p>His work, which explores queer transnationalism, friendship, and belonging across the African diaspora, has appeared in <em data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"483\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Teen Vogue<\/em>, <em data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"509\">Lambda Literary Review<\/em>, and <em data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"539\">Tasteful Rude Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A recipient of fellowships from Lambda Literary, VONA, and the Dominican Studies Institute, he has also taught writing workshops at Emerson College, Pace University, and the University of Pittsburgh.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;height: 448px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2251 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd-740x740.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/10\/e62b2a83-dbe8-4540-b8f5-fea29936e7fd.jpg 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"82\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1983 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-e1770920733308-300x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-e1770920733308-300x295.png 300w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-e1770920733308-768x756.png 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/Untitled-design-e1770920733308.png 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"82\">Hillary Wyss<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Hilary E. Wyss<\/strong> is the Allan K. Smith and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of English at Trinity College, where she teaches early American literature, American studies, and Native American studies. She is the author of several books, including <em data-start=\"398\" data-end=\"502\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiOu7z8yNSSAxXUFmIAHTWvPRgQFnoECB0QAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pennpress.org%2F9780812244137%2Fenglish-letters-and-indian-literacies%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw3G6oVlW4_WGQS4zKeBSzzo&amp;opi=89978449\">English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools<\/a>, 1750\u20131830<\/em>, and has published widely on literacy and Native communities in early America. She contributes to <a href=\"https:\/\/dsp.domains.trincoll.edu\/HL\/hidden-literacies\/index\"><em data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"620\">Hidden Literacies<\/em><\/a>, a digital project presenting archival texts and expert commentary to highlight the reading and writing practices of marginalized Americans.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\" data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"82\">James Staples<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">James Staples&#8217;s article, &#8220;Unquestionably Gay? Melancholia, Futurity, and John Boswell&#8217;s Aelred of Rievaulx&#8221; was included in the centennial issue of\u00a0<i data-ogsc=\"\">Speculum<\/i>, the premiere journal on medieval studies, in January 2026.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">He has recently been invited to deliver a talk at Cornell (&#8220;Scandalous Devotion,&#8221; April 2025) and the 2024 Boswell Memorial Address to the College of William and Mary (&#8220;Our (Gay) Corner of Paradise,&#8221; September 2024).<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">He&#8217;s currently working on two monographs:\u00a0<i data-ogsc=\"\">The Touch of God: Radical Theology in the Margins of the English Mirror of Simple Souls<\/i>, the research for which has been largely funded by grants from Trinity (a Faculty Research Grant in 2024 and a Summer Research Project Grant in 2026); and\u00a0<i data-ogsc=\"\">Without a Spot: The Revolutionary Blissful Life of the Pearl-Poet<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">His research and publications focus on the excesses of the medieval theological imagination &#8211; focusing primarily on the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries &#8211; and how such excess becomes central to reimagining possibilities for the present (medieval\/modern) and future.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong data-start=\"61\" data-end=\"82\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3019 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2026\/04\/2026-Staples-Headshot-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2026\/04\/2026-Staples-Headshot-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2026\/04\/2026-Staples-Headshot-828x1024.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2026\/04\/2026-Staples-Headshot-768x950.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2026\/04\/2026-Staples-Headshot-1242x1536.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2026\/04\/2026-Staples-Headshot-1656x2048.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ethan Rutherford Ethan Rutherford, Associate Professor of English, had his story, Farthest South, published in BOMB Magazine on January 15, 2020. 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