Rice University English Department

Professor Laymon is a 2022 recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's "genius grant"!!! 😮👏🙌🎉

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

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/reading-beat-ban

We read banned books. 😤

Reading to beat the ban Multiple Rice organizations hosted a Banned Books Read Out Oct. 6 in response to the resurgent national movement to ban books deemed by some political activists as controversial from school libraries.

Rice is officially in its DesRoches era!

The DesRoches era begins as Rice’s eighth president takes office Reginald DesRoches started his first day as Rice University’s newest president the same way he starts most Fridays: with a run around campus, on this particular dewey Houston morning, accompanied by his wife Paula and daughter Shelby, a Rice senior. Later, just as he has during his term as provost...

Professor Caroline Levander has been appointed vice president global at the Rice University Paris Center.

Rice University to Open New Campus in Paris - Erudera College News Rice University is opening its international campus in Paris, thus offering more opportunities to its students and faculty, the university has announced. Rice University Paris Center, which will provide various student programs and will be the home to independent researchers and international confer...