A warm congratulations to Russ Sbriglia (PhD 2012), who will join the English Department at Seton Hall University this fall. Since graduating in 2012, Russ has served as an adjunct instructor at St. John Fisher College as well as at the U of R. His first book, The Night of the World: American Romanticism and the Materiality of Transcendence, is currently under contract with Northwestern University Press; his edited collection, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature But Were Afraid to Ask Žižek, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.