Worcester State Magazine – Spring 2024

Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies Assistant Professor Rita Mookerjee’s first full-length collection of poetry, False Offering, published by JackLeg Press in Nov. 2023, addresses topics ranging from religion to pop culture staples to being a person of color growing up in a rural part of Pennsylvania. Mookerjee has studied African literature, post-colonial literature, women’s and gender […]

For 150 years now, Worcester State University has served as a provider of a well-educated regional workforce. From our earliest incarnation as the Worcester Normal School, we’ve provided experiential learning opportunities. The first Normal School principal, Elias Harlow Russell, helped pioneer an innovative teacher training model that put students into the city’s classrooms as part […]