Nokes met with the 100-year-old Kwar Adhola (King) Moses Stephen Owor of the Jopadhola people in Eastern Uganda.
Since mid-April, Dr. Scott Nokes has travelled throughout Uganda collecting pre-colonial oral stories from storytellers as part of his research through a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant.
Nokes, professor of medieval literature in TROY’s English Department, arrived in Uganda in January with the plan to conduct his research for six months. However, he spent the first…
Franklin and Fennelly are the first co-authors to receive the Hall-Waters Prize.
Award-winning novelist, Tom Franklin, and Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, received Troy University’s Hall-Waters Prize on Friday, April 17 at the Troy Campus.
The day began with Franklin and Fennelly meeting with Dr. Kirk Curnutt’s English senior seminar class for a discussion in the Lamar P. Higgins Ballrooms and responding to…
Beth Ann Fennelly served as the Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021 and Tom Franklin is an award-winning novelist.
Award-winning novelist, Tom Franklin, and Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi from 2016-2021, will both receive the Hall-Waters Prize from Troy University on Friday, April 17.
Franklin and Fennelly, who have been married since 2001, will discuss their individual and collaborative works at 9:30 a.m. in the Lamar P. Higgins Ballrooms in the Trojan…
Nyla Teague was named the winner for the second year in a row and will represent Pike County at the Alabama State Spelling Bee.
On Friday, February 6, over 20 Pike County elementary and middle school students competed in the Pike County Scripps Spelling Bee in TROY’s Lamar P. Higgins Ballroom.
Nyla Teague, an 8th grader from Banks School, was named the winner for the second year in a row and will represent Pike County at the Alabama State Spelling…
