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Raegan Ballard

Introducing Raegan Ballard, Black History in the Making Award recipient for 2022

Feb. 24, 2022

Check out Raegan's advice for English majors and learn what the Black History in the Making Award means to her.

Nicole Milanovic

Friday feature: Nicole Milanovic

Feb. 18, 2022

Nicole will graduate with a B.A. in English from VCU in May 2022.

Fabiana Acosta smiles and stands against a blush pink wall.

Introducing Fabiana, social media manager and creative writing minor

Feb. 10, 2022

Fabiana is a junior mass communications major with a minor in creative writing. Learn more about why she decided to pursue her minor and who her favorite English professors are.

The new cohort of scholars at VCU's Humanities Research Center includes faculty from the College of Humanities and Sciences and schools of the Arts and Education. (File photo)

Meet the 5 interdisciplinary scholars who will be residential fellows this year at VCU’s Humanities Research Center

Jan. 19, 2022

The fellowship program provides faculty the opportunity to work on projects around a similar theme.

Joe Cates. “I’ve always been curious. I’ve always wanted to understand things better and there’s no better way to do that than to teach others.” (Photo by mx.bex, courtesy of Joe Cates)

Starting over: Joe Cates’ journey from chef to professor

Jan. 14, 2022

Cates spent the first part of his professional life as a chef and restauranteur before a stint in rehab helped put him on a different path.

Matt Cricchio’s debut novel, “Security Day,” focuses on the complex relationship between the people of Afghanistan and the U.S. military. (Courtesy of Matt Cricchio)

Grad’s war novel highlights the complicated relationship between the U.S. military and the Afghan people

Nov. 9, 2021

Navy veteran and VCU alum Matt Cricchio served in Afghanistan. His debut novel, “Security Day,” will “change how you think about American conflict overseas.”

"Deluge" by Leila Chatti

Leila Chatti wins 24th annual Levis Reading Prize for ‘Deluge’

Aug. 13, 2021

Chatti will receive an award of $5,000 and will give a reading from her work at 7 p.m. on Sept. 23 in the VCU James Branch Cabell Library, and via livestream.

Students at the Indian Industrial Boarding School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of the Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, Pa.)

‘A painful chapter in our nation’s history’: New class to shed light on Indigenous boarding schools

Aug. 3, 2021

The course will examine the traumatic histories at the schools in the United States and Canada, where thousands of Native children lost connections with their cultures, languages and families.

M. Thomas Inge, Ph.D., left, with his wife Donaria, then-VCU Libraries Dean John Ulmschneider, and fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator Charles Vess at a reception for Vess at James Branch Cabell Library in 2013. (Joe Mahoney, VCU Libraries)

Thomas Inge, a trailblazer in comics scholarship and former VCU professor, dies at 85

May 19, 2021

Inge’s contributions of comics, art, memorabilia and letters were instrumental in the creation of VCU Libraries’ Comic Arts Collection.

aerial view of v.c.u. campus

VCU professor and author Clint McCown inducted into Wake Forest Hall of Fame

April 22, 2021

Clint McCown, a professor in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Sciences, was inducted into the Wake Forest University Hall of Fame on April 17.