Department of English News Archive
FRESH ACTS Puts Students in the Spotlight
Six UAlbany students will see their original plays performed on stage April 22-25 as part of FRESH ACTS: A Festival of New Plays, a student-driven production in the Performing Arts Center’s Lab Theatre.
AENG 402Z Advanced Writing Workshop with Fall 2026 Poet-in-residence Anna Moschovakis
"Between the material and the impossible, we make poems."
Fukushima: How One Disaster Still Shapes Lives 15 Years Later
Professor of English and Journalism Thomas A. Bass looks into the fallout from the Fukushima Disaster 15 years later in his latest article, published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists with support from the Pulitzer Center. The article focuses on the people living in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster.
The Short Version: Mike Hill on how climate fiction can help us imagine a different future
The Short Version: Mike Hill on how climate fiction can help us imagine a different future
Albany Film Festival Explores Storytelling Across Page, Screen
From Oscar-nominated filmmakers to historians, musicians and cultural critics, this year’s Albany Film Festival will bring together artists and scholars whose work explores how stories move across mediums. Presented by the New York State Writers Institute, the sixth annual festival returns to campus March 28.
New Exhibition at UAlbany Honors Toni Morrison’s Legacy
The New York State Writers Institute has installed an exhibition at UAlbany's Science Library featuring Morrison's desk and chair — underscoring her indelible impact on future generations of writers.
Douglass Day event February 13
Please join the English Department for the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon on Friday February 13! Come by the Multi-Purpose Room (Campus Center West) at any time between 12 and 3pm. All you need is your personal laptop or tablet to participate in this crowdsourcing transcription project! Help us document the ways that African American communities helped to imagine, pass, and protect all of our 14th Amendment Rights, including birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the law for all persons. You don't need to know how to transcribe; you'll learn when you arrive! It will be a fun, celebratory activity with cake and music!
UAlbany Hits a High Note with Gift of Music from Republic Records Founders
Alumni Monte Lipman ’86 and Avery Lipman ’88 — the groundbreaking brothers who founded Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company — have established an endowment at UAlbany that will bring programs and performances to the Campus Center’s auditorium, newly renamed the Monte Lipman ’86 and Avery Lipman ’88 Republic Records Music Hall.