“Translation,” a digital artwork by Professor and Chair of Literary Arts John Cayley, is currently featured in “Mapping Multilingualism,” a virtual exhibit created by the Center for Language Studies at Brown.  “Translation” is a  work of ambient time-based poetics that makes use of short textual extracts from Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘On Language as Such and on the Language of Man,’ and passage

Generative Unfoldings, an exhibit sponsored by MIT in spring 2021, features 14 generative artworks, among which is a collaborative project by Qianxun Chen and Mariana Roa Oliva, both of whom graduated from Brown's MFA program in 2020. Their project, Seedlings_: From Hummus, was selected for inclusion by the exhibition curator, Nick Montfort, who is a professor of digital media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jo Stewart, who is slated to graduate with an MFA in Literary Arts later this year, has been named the inaugural recipient of the David Dornstein '85 Artist Grant. Stewart was selected for the $25,000 Brown Arts Initiative grant based on a proposed serial poem project to be entitled Un-. The poem sequence centers on the life a girl called un; the poem series shall investigate the prefix as a destabilizing gift. Jo Stewart uses a combination of gesture, voice and text to make poetry and performance investigating entrapment, borders and freedom.

Alexandra Kleeman, who graduated from Brown in 2007 with degrees in Literary Arts and Cognitive Science, was the recipient of both the Berlin Prize and the Rome Prize in 2020. These fellowships are awarded by the distinguished American Academies in Berlie and Rome respectively.

Erica Hunt's new book, Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems, earned praise from Ben Lerner in his review, which appears in the New York Review of Books. Erica Hunt is Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice.

Literary Arts alums Samantha Gorman ’06, MFA ’10 and Danny Cannizzaro ’06 are the founders of Los Angeles-based Tender Claws , an arts and games studio that has been attracting notice for its interactive games and installations, virtual reality, live performance and digital publishing.  Recently, Tender Claws received praise for its new interactive virtual experience, Tempest, in which an actor, slated to play the role of Prospero in a performance of the Shakespeare play which has be

"Spumante," a new poem by Assistant Professor of Literary Arts Colin Channer, appeared in the Nov.

Shingai Kangunda MFA '22, who joined the Lit Arts fiction track this fall, has had new stories published in Fantasy Magazine and Fractured.  

“Gay in Nigeria, Black Male in America,” an opinion piece by Chibuihe Obi Achimba MFA ’22, was published in The New York Times on Saturday, Nov. 7.  Chibuihe, who is studying poetry in the Literary Arts graduate program, was a 2019 – 2020 Scholar-at-Risk at Harvard University before matriculating at Brown.