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📢 Join us for a talk by Dr. Nicole Aljoe (Tufts) about Black Britons' letters & early Black print culture! 📍 Posner Hall 234 📅 Wed, April 23 | 4:30 – 6:30 PM

The Adamson Awards are presented for excellence in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, and are open to undergraduate students within our community. This year's ceremony will take place on Weds. 4/23, from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., in Baker Hall 136-A, with featured reader Caryl Phillips.

Congratulations to Mauricio Ortiz Rousset, M.A. in Literary & Cultural Studies, recently awarded a $1,000 USD scholarship through the La Promesa Foundation, which supports academically talented Hispanic students in the SW Pennsylvania region in their pursuit of higher education.

Psyched to virtually present my documentary “The Last Mayor of Chinatown” today at my alma mater for CMU English Bridges & Borders conference on the theme of the archive. My subject Shirley Yee is retiring from CMU this year so it feels very full circle! eventbrite.com/e/bridges-and-…

You won't want to miss this! Join us and CMU Libraries for Week of Will (April 19–27), which includes: a dramatic Macbeth reading, rare First Folio viewing, cupcakes, soliloquies, puppets & more! 🗓️ Details: pittsburghshakespeare.org

Prof. Ralph Vituccio’s latest film, Sisyphus Beach, will open the Ethnografilm Festival in Paris on 4/18. Ralph will present the film and lead a Q&A. The film shows the chaotic, almost surreal world of Alang, India, where shipbreakers toil in extreme conditions.

How is AI changing learning? A new story sheds light on this topic, touching on the work of Rhetoric PhD alum Emily DeJeu and Senior Lecturer in Writing & Communication Alan Thomas Kohler. cmu.edu/news/stories/a…

With a theme of "The Archive," and consisting of 63 presentations from 70 presenters representing 55 institutions across 13 countries and 24 states, the 5th Bridges and Borders conference was a success! Read the full recap here: facebook.com/share/p/1JprMn…

Today at 6 p.m. is the dramatic reading of Macbeth in Posner Hall - don't miss it!

Congratulations to Writing & Communication Lecturer Barbara George, selected as one of the 2025-2026 Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellows at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation!

WOVEN #6 is live! In this issue, students from courses across the Dietrich College GenEd Program pick up the mantle of inquiry to interrogate themes of power and authority, memory and memorialization, cultural critique and interdisciplinary analysis. cmu.edu/dietrich/gened…

Eunji Jo, LCS Ph.D. candidate, has received the 2025 Dietrich College Graduate Student Teaching Award, which recognizes outstanding expertise in all areas of curriculum development, including classroom teaching and student mentoring. Read more here: cmu.edu/dietrich/news/…

Nicole Tanquary, a Rhetoric Ph.D. candidate, is the recipient of the 2025 CMU Graduate Student Teaching Award. Read more about Nicole and the award here: cmu.edu/dietrich/news/…

Asst. Prof. Dr. Nupoor Ranade presented at Write the Docs Pittsburgh. "Making AI Visible in Technical Communication" addressed one of today's most timely conversations: how technical communicators can navigate the evolving #GenAI landscape. Watch here: bit.ly/432Nu9H

Are you a graduate of one of our programs? We’d love to hear what you’ve been up to! Use the form below to share any recent professional successes for possible inclusion in an upcoming Alumni Newsletter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Distinguished scholar Dr. Jessica Restaino (Montclair State University) gave the talk “'Every Method's a Trap' (and I Feel Fine): The Rhetorical Magic of Becoming a New Subject" at the spring Rhetoric Colloquium. Read the full story here: facebook.com/share/p/16V87C…

Congratulations to senior Alison Zheng, whose project "Unraveling the Decline of Pittsburgh's Chinatown in a Post-Steel Society," the subject of an independent study with Professor Jeffrey Williams, was chosen to receive a Dietrich Humanities Prize.

A group of CMU undergraduates immersed themselves in the nation's capital, connecting with professionals and gaining real-world insights into careers in the humanities. Read about the inaugural Humanities Trek, in a story written by our students! cmu.edu/dietrich/news/…