Thank you all for an amazing semester! I had a fantastic time managing the PittEnglishLit Twitter, and I hope you all tune in for the posts curated by a different intern in the fall! Thank you again for your involvement with this account! — Alyssa Carnevali, EngLit 2024

Congratulations to graduating senior, Andrew Knight! Andrew is planning on working in either local government or for a public school board after graduation! We wish you good luck and thank you for your time in the English Literature Department!

Continuing Dr. Bortnick’s Faculty Profile for the month of April! Dr. Bortnick started teaching at Pitt in 2022, and is currently reading Journey to the West!

Our first senior shout-out is for Jayna Palumbo! Jayna will be graduating at the end of the month and is planning on attending Wake Forest University for a Masters in Education and English Certification in the Fall! Good luck Jayna and thank you for being part of the department!

Our faculty profile for the month of April is for Dr. Justin Bortnick! Dr. Bortnick joined the English Literature Department in 2022 and is interested in design and game narratives, as well as propaganda and conspiracy theories!

The Childen’s Literature Program will be hosting “Gaiety Games” on April 20th at 6pm in the Cathedral of Learning 144! The event will be led by Dr. Derritt Mason discussing HIV/AIDS Activism, Children’s Literature, and Early Queer Video Games! We hope to see you there!

Summer Session Course Promo! Would you like to watch films, plays, and television as your homework? Read a variety of novels depicting adolescence and becoming an adult? Then take “Representing Adolescence” this summer, taught by Christine Case, an online course on M/Ws!

April is World Poetry Month! World Poetry Month is currently the largest literary celebration in the world. This year, the Academy of American Poets is proud to be honoring Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem, “Kindness,” the most read contemporary poem of 2022!

Call for Papers and Digital Projects: The English Literature Conference and Showcase will be occurring on Friday, April 14th, and we ask that all submissions be sent in by Thursday, April 6th. The link to apply is in our bio! We hope to see you there!

Our final featured female writer for Women’s History Month is Imogen Binnie! Binnie’s debut novel, Nevada, was a nominee for the Transgender Fiction category at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards. Binnie won both the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and the MOTHA Award!