Congratulations to Basil Thomas, the recipient of the 2026 University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Senior Award for the Department of English!

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We are happy to announce the winners of the 2026 Writing Prize Contests: Basil Thomas: Winner of the CAS Outstanding Senior Award for English. Maria Arango : Winner of the George Knight Houpt Prize for excellence and proficiency in the work of the English Department. McKenna Schneider, and Adam Lorey: Winners of the English Department Essay Prize. Adrianne Weldum: Winner of the Scribblers Prize for the best piece of creative writing by an undergraduate woman. Honorable Mention: Leah Comes McKenna Schneider, and Basil Thomas: Winners of the Axlerod Memorial Award for poetry. Adrianne Weldum: Winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Fiction. Honorable Mention: Kiely Caufield Elle Dixon, Dee Dolce, and Jonah Ruddock: Winners of the Albert Cook, The Mac Hammond, and the John Logan Prize in poetry, fiction, or drama. Winners of the Poetry Collection/UB Libraries Poetry Awards competition Kathleen Connolly: Winner of The Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize Joshua Allen: Winner of The Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize Jonah Ruddock: Winner of The Academy of American Poets Prize Honorable Mentions: BreAnna Rice: The Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize honorable mention Elisabeth Endler: The Academy of American Poets Prize honorable mention

Congrats to the winners of the spring 2026 #UBuffalo Department of English writing prize contests!

You're invited to join us for two evenings of talks, art, films, food, memories—and poetry—to celebrate the centenary of Robert Creeley (b. 1926) on May 21 & 22.

Follow the link below to RSVP.
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This award honors faculty who have taught, led, and motivated their students in the study of the long eighteenth century. The committee cited Prof Mack's work in the professional development of UB English graduates, many of whom have gone on to achieve great prominence in the field. (2/2)

Congratulations to #UBuffalo Professor Ruth Mack, who has just received the Graduate Student Caucus Excellence in Mentorship Award at the annual meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (#ASECS)! (1/2)

Friday, Apr. 17, 4 p.m.
Scholars@Hallwalls

Trina Hyun
@hallwalls.bsky.social Contemporary Arts Center - FREE and PUBLIC
“Writing Speechlessness: Thomas Traherne’s Fetal Poetics” presented by Trina Hyun (Asst. Prof., #UBuffalo English)

Complimentary beverages and light fare before the talk.

**Poetics Plus** Please join us for a reading with Mark Nowak April 17 5:15 pm conversation & refreshments 6:00 pm reading Fitz Books (1462 Main Street)

**Poetics Plus**
Please join us for a reading with
Mark Nowak
April 17
5:15 pm conversation & refreshments
6:00 pm reading
Fitz Books (1462 Main Street)

Basil Thomas presents "Narratives of Freedom and Belonging from Pauli Murray," a project supervised by Prof. Miriam Thaggert.

Ciah Courtney presents "Representing Displacement: A Critical Discourse Analysis of U.S. Media Narratives on Refugees and Forced Migrants in 2025," a project supervised by Prof. Dimitri Anastasopoulos.

Congratulations to #UBuffalo English majors Basil Thomas and Ciah Courtney, who presented their honors thesis projects at the 2026 @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social Undergraduate Research Showcase!

Please join us for the annual conference of the Undergraduate English Club!

"Adaptations"

Sunday, April 26
12-6 pm
O'Brian 209

Register to present and/or attend by visiting forms.gle/D7U4cjsn6Y25...

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What are we doing? AI in the Arts and Humanities

#UBuffalo hosts a one-day conference for critical conversation about artificial intelligence, creativity, and the future of humanistic inquiry.

Monday, April 13, 2026
12:30 to 5:45 pm

#UBuffalo Poetics Program and Just Buffalo Literary Center (@justbuffalolit.bsky.social) invite you to a reading with Rainer Diana Hamilton Thursday, April 9, 2026 7:30 pm Just Buffalo Literary Center, 468 Washington St, 2nd Fl

#UBuffalo Poetics Program and Just Buffalo Literary Center @justbuffalolit.bsky.social invite you to a reading with

Rainer Diana Hamilton

Thursday, April 9, 2026
7:30 pm
Just Buffalo Literary Center, 468 Washington St, 2nd Fl

TRANSLATION SYMPOSIUM
April 3, 2026 2:30 pm
#UBuffalo Special Collections
433 Capen Hall
Presentations on the current state of translation and readings
from ongoing translation projects by UB Graduate Students and Alumni.

Commuters, Rejoice! The New Portal Bridge Is Ready for Riders.

The New York Times interviewed #UBuffalo associate professor of English David Alff for a story about the upcoming opening of the new Portal North Bridge, which will serve rail passengers traveling from Manhattan to Newark and beyond.

Oscars 2026: Ludwig Göransson Wins Best Original Score for Sinners His score won over others from One Battle After Another, Frankenstein, Hamnet, and more

Congratulations to #UBuffalo's SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture, Bruce Jackson!

𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 won 4 Oscars this year, including Ludwig Göransson for Best Original Score. Prof. Jackson is credited in the film as “Music Consultant,” and was part of Göransson's team.

2025-26 | These Toxic Times Toxicity, a word rich in material and metaphorical implications, is the launching point of this year’s UB Humanities Institute Annual Conference taking place March 10-11, 2026. We invite you to ...

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The expanding meaning of toxicity The UB Humanities Institute's annual conference will explore the range of interpretations now associated with toxicity.

2026 University at Buffalo Humanities Institute Annual Conference
"These Toxic Times"
March 10-12, 2026
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

` Poetics PlusSpring 2026 beyond felt facts: documentary assemblages, nomadic translations, and global crises Joanna Mąkowska Thurs., March 12th, 3pm-4:30pm UB Poetry Collection | 420 Capen Hall ~ refreshments will be served ~ Moving between the interrelated practices of poetry translation and poetics research, Mąkowska’s talk will first take up her translations into Polish of Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and then discuss her current book project on documentary assemblages as a form of protest and resistance. Tracing the documentary impulse from the 1930s (Boyle, Rukeyser, Loy) to contemporary anti- war archival poetics in global context (Ammiel Alcalay and Ida Börjel), Makowska will also discuss how theories of montage, assemblage, and new materialism illuminate documentary literature’s polyvocal and processual nature. Joanna Mąkowska is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, a literary critic, and a translator. She has translated into Polish Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem (Ossolineum Award nominated). Essays appear in Modernism/modernity, Arizona Quarterly, Women’s Studies, The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, and elsewhere. Having been a Fulbright Scholar at the University at Buffalo and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duquesne University, she is currently a Visiting Professor at Canisius University. POETICS PLUS IS A POETICS PROGRAM EVENT SERIES SPONSORED IN PART THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO. THE SERIES IS PRODUCED WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE POETRY AND RARE BOOKS COLLECTION, RUST BELT BOOKS, WESTERN NEW YORK BOOK ARTS CENTER, JUST BUFFALO LITERARY CENTER, AND GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE POETICS PROGRAM. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Poetics Plus

"beyond felt facts: documentary assemblages, nomadic translations, and global crises"

Joanna Mąkowska

Thurs., March 12th, 3pm-4:30pm
#UBuffalo Poetry Collection | 420 Capen Hall

Professor Shilina-Conte's 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 has recently been reviewed in:
𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮-𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 30.1 (2026): 162–166
euppublishing.com/doi/epub/10....
𝘈𝘭𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦: 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢, no. 29–30, 2025, pp. 304–308
www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue2930/Re...

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#UBuffalo Professor Tanya Shilina-Conte's book, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴, has been included in the list of recent notable books by Visible Evidence (a leading international documentary film studies network).
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Please join us for the Juxtapositions
LECTURE SERIES SPRING 2026

Melissa Gniadek
"Herman Melville's 'The Apple-Tree Table,' Children's Literature, and Family Pedagogy"

Wednesday, March 4
3:30 pm - 306 Clemens Hall

"Part travel narrative, part ethnography, part elegy, 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦 is both an intimate portrait of a singular explorer and a searching meditation on borders, between nations, cultures, memory, and myth." (2/2)

In the Arctic with Malaurie by Bruce Jackson — BlazeVOX [books] In the Arctic with Malaurie by Bruce Jackson

Congratulations to #UBuffalo SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture Bruce Jackson, whose new book 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦 has been published by BlazeVOX! (1/2)

Congratulations to Prof. Paul Feigenbaum, whose article, "Listening as Social Action and the Messy Middle of Writing and Rhetoric Pedagogy," appears in 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩. publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

Basil's pursuing an undergraduate Honors Thesis focused on the life & work of Pauli Murray. They are the Tournament Director for the Mock Trial Association & work as a Residential Advisor with UB Campus Living. After graduation, Basil hopes to work as a litigation paralegal & attend law school.(2/2)

Congratulations to Basil Thomas, the recipient of the 2026 #UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social Outstanding Senior Award for the Department of English! Basil Thomas is a senior University Honors scholar majoring in English, Political Science, and Legal Studies. (1/2)

The #UBuffalo Department of English mourns Michael P. Silverblatt (BA ’74), longtime host of 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘮 on KCRW. His searching conversations with leading writers shaped contemporary literary culture. We extend our condolences to all who knew and admired him. Read more: www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...

She has received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Artist Residency, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Smith College. (4/4)

Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦, an Editors’ Choice selection at 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴. Her debut novel 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢 was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, and featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers. (3/4)

FREE Transportation: 4:50pm (Leaves at 5pm, Returns 8pm), Stampede bus, CFA circle
Salon Conversation: 5:30 (Hallwalls Gallery, 341 Delaware Avenue)
Reading: 7:00pm (Hallwalls Cinema)
Snacks: Pizza and pop for students.
Free and open to the public.
@hallwalls.bsky.social
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