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Kiese Laymon, author and Rice University English professor

Rice’s Kiese Laymon awarded ‘genius grant’ MacArthur Fellowship

October 12, 2022

Rice University English professor and acclaimed author Kiese Laymon has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the prestigious honor popularly known as the “genius grant.”

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Rice ranked by Niche as one of nation’s top 10 universities

August 29, 2022

Rice earns an “A+” grade and ranks as one of the nation’s top 10 universities in the latest ratings of American colleges compiled by Niche.

Kirsten Ostherr giving lecture in Berlin

English chair Ostherr gives lecture in Berlin in honor of Marshall Plan’s 75th anniversary

August 26, 2022

Kirsten Ostherr — the Gladys Louise Fox Professor and Chair of the Department of English, and director of both Rice’s medical humanities program and the Medical Futures Lab — was invited by the U.S. Embassy in Berlin to give a lecture July 13 at the Benjamin Franklin campus of the city’s Charité hospital, one of the largest university hospitals in Europe.

people, papers, presentations

People, papers and presentations for Aug. 8, 2022

August 8, 2022

Alyssa Cahoy, a senior Health Sciences student in the Department of Kinesiology, won the Morehouse College Project Imhotep Public Health Leadership Award during her summer internship at the Atlanta program.

Teaching awards

Faculty, staff, students honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring, service

April 25, 2022

Each year, Rice honors members of the university community who have served students through outstanding teaching, dedication and service.

Guggenheim winner Tomás Morín

Rice University English professor Tomás Morín wins prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

April 7, 2022

Rice University professor Tomás Morín has won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor bestowed annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to a slate of the world’s top scholars, artists, writers and scientists.

Elizabeth Petrick and Timothy Morton

Fall Big Questions courses to cover the nature of facts, what makes bodies normal or abnormal

March 24, 2022

Each semester’s slate of Big Questions courses offered by the School of Humanities starts students’ minds churning over thought-provoking topics. So this fall’s offerings are no surprise: one promises to spur Rice scholars to think critically about what makes bodies normal as opposed to abnormal, while the other course will push students to examine just what, exactly, is a fact.

Vice Provost Alex Byrd addresses a group of high school students on a tour at Rice inside the Baker College commons.

Humanities hosts daylong visit for high schoolers hoping to study the environment

March 14, 2022

These students picked Rice for a reason

Ethnomusicologist Julian Saporiti gives a presentation to a group in Herring Hall

Anything but a paper

March 7, 2022

A Ph.D. dissertation doesn’t always have to be a paper, as demonstrated by ethnomusicologist Julian Saporiti

Woodson Research Center archivist Rebecca Russell, Fondren Library librarian Joe Goetz and English professor Alexander Regier gathered around replicas of William Blake's illuminated poems.

Fondren updates collection of William Blake replica prints and plates

February 25, 2022

Michael Phillips’ recreated Blake sets offer a rare opportunity to interact with 19th-century printing technology and artistry

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Grad students ask: Is this the end of English?

February 7, 2022

Alemán to give keynote at department’s annual graduate student conference

Baker College junior Xavier Elizondo

Inaugural cohort of Humanities Dean’s Fellows hails culture of collaboration

December 14, 2021

New program funds undergraduates passionate about humanities research

The faculty of Rice University’s Department of English, in a photograph used in the 1987 Campanile Yearbook. They are shown at one of the ramped entrances to Rayzor Hall, with faculty standing in front of the arched doorway or leaning or sitting on the guard rail along the ramp. From left to right: William Piper, Alan Grob, Terrence Doody, John Meixner, Edward Snow, Edward Doughtie, Wesley Morris, Walter Isle, Meredith Skura, Susan Wood, Jack Ward, Max Apple, and Mary Tobin.

Rice mourns Mary Tobin '73, longtime English lecturer, volunteer

December 13, 2021

The longtime fixture and friend of the Rice community died Nov. 23.

Tomas Morin poetry reading in Ray Courtyard

Morín brings his ‘machete’

November 18, 2021

Rice assistant professor of creative writing Tomás Morín read from his new collection of poetry

Classics

Spring Big Questions courses consider what makes a terrorist and what makes a classic

November 17, 2021

New classes from Humanities professors explore essential issues of our time

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