The UNM Institute for American Indian Research (IFAIR) and the Alfonso Ortiz Center present:
The 2012 Indigenous Book Festival
Thursday, April 12 - Friday, April 13
UNM Student Union Building
Please join us in celebrating the work of indigenous writers and scholars across fields. Other than the keynote luncheon on Friday, April 13 with Dr. Luana Ross, President of Salish Kootenai College, all book festival events are free and open to the public. In addition to presentations, panels, and creative writing workshops, the book festival features Diné poet and UNM English Professor Luci Tapahonso for a reading on
Friday, April 13 from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
in SUB Ballroom B.
Additional program details can be found at the IFAIR website:
http://www.unm.edu/~ifair/2012bookfest.html
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Bless Me Ultima Marathon Reading Poster and Details
Bless Me, Ultima turns forty this year, and if that’s not enough reason to celebrate, the film version of the novel is scheduled for release in 2012 as well. Just last month Rudolfo Anaya received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. Times and among other things, the Times cited his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, as “the most widely read and critically acclaimed novel in the Chicano literary canon.”
For all of these reasons and more, the Department of English and University Libraries will sponsor a Reading Marathon of Bless Me, Ultima on Monday, April 23rd in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with a student, faculty or staff member reading the first page of the novel, and it will conclude at about 5 p.m. when Rudolfo Anaya reads the last page. The reading will be followed by a reception. The Southwest Research Center will have a collection of Anaya’s papers—including manuscript pages from Bless Me, Ultima—on display.
Forty-eight readers will take the podium throughout the day, and those who stop in to listen will have the chance to sign up for hourly door prizes—books, book bags, signed Edward Gonzalez posters, gift certificates and free dinners at participating restaurants.
Money raised from the event will go to endow the Rudolfo Anaya Scholarship Fund in the English Department.
For all of these reasons and more, the Department of English and University Libraries will sponsor a Reading Marathon of Bless Me, Ultima on Monday, April 23rd in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with a student, faculty or staff member reading the first page of the novel, and it will conclude at about 5 p.m. when Rudolfo Anaya reads the last page. The reading will be followed by a reception. The Southwest Research Center will have a collection of Anaya’s papers—including manuscript pages from Bless Me, Ultima—on display.
Forty-eight readers will take the podium throughout the day, and those who stop in to listen will have the chance to sign up for hourly door prizes—books, book bags, signed Edward Gonzalez posters, gift certificates and free dinners at participating restaurants.
Money raised from the event will go to endow the Rudolfo Anaya Scholarship Fund in the English Department.
Colloquium this Friday at 2
A reminder: Annarose Fitzgerald, PhD Candidate in English, will be workshopping her paper, "From a Rose to a Sea-Shell: Yeats, the Occult, and Modernizing Belief in the Symbol" this Friday at 2 pm in the dept. lounge.
Please read the paper in advance and come prepared to discuss! Hope to see many of you there.
Please read the paper in advance and come prepared to discuss! Hope to see many of you there.
David Dunaway: Publication News: Book Review of his A Route 66 Companion
A Route 66 Companion
Edited by David King Dunaway. Univ. of Texas, $19.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-292-72660-4
Route 66 has a long and interesting history, and Dunaway--the recipient of Berkeley's first Ph.D. in American Studies--has done a fantastic job selecting works of literature about "America's Main Street" to tell its dynamic story, supplemented by the editor's own invaluable commentary. The pieces span all genres, from poetry to memoir to detective fiction to SF. The first chapter tells of the early years, when in 1858 Lieutenant Edward F. Beale surveyed the prospective route for a wagon road with a caravan of camels. That path became a railroad in the 1890s, and finally a highway in 1926. From there, the selections are split into sections focusing on a different regional area of the famed road. In "Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas," the autobiography of Will Rogers--the man for whom the route was named--is excerpted. Also included is a selection from The Negro Motorist Green Book, a text detailing establishments open to African-Americans in the 30s. In the New Mexico and Arizona chapter, Mary Toya writes of growing up in the "Indian Camp" in Winslow, Arizona, where families lived in boxcars and were not permitted to leave their homes at night. A selection from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is included in this chapter as well. "66 is the path of a people in flight," he wrote. The California chapter has many great pieces, but Sylvia Plath's poem "Sleep in the Mojave Desert" is a definite standout in this all-around remarkable anthology. Illus. (Feb.) -- Publisher's Weekly
Edited by David King Dunaway. Univ. of Texas, $19.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-292-72660-4
Route 66 has a long and interesting history, and Dunaway--the recipient of Berkeley's first Ph.D. in American Studies--has done a fantastic job selecting works of literature about "America's Main Street" to tell its dynamic story, supplemented by the editor's own invaluable commentary. The pieces span all genres, from poetry to memoir to detective fiction to SF. The first chapter tells of the early years, when in 1858 Lieutenant Edward F. Beale surveyed the prospective route for a wagon road with a caravan of camels. That path became a railroad in the 1890s, and finally a highway in 1926. From there, the selections are split into sections focusing on a different regional area of the famed road. In "Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas," the autobiography of Will Rogers--the man for whom the route was named--is excerpted. Also included is a selection from The Negro Motorist Green Book, a text detailing establishments open to African-Americans in the 30s. In the New Mexico and Arizona chapter, Mary Toya writes of growing up in the "Indian Camp" in Winslow, Arizona, where families lived in boxcars and were not permitted to leave their homes at night. A selection from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is included in this chapter as well. "66 is the path of a people in flight," he wrote. The California chapter has many great pieces, but Sylvia Plath's poem "Sleep in the Mojave Desert" is a definite standout in this all-around remarkable anthology. Illus. (Feb.) -- Publisher's Weekly
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Bless Me Ultima Marathon Reading
Bless Me, Ultima turns forty this year, and if that’s not enough reason to celebrate, the film version of the novel is scheduled for release in 2012 as well. Just last month Rudolfo Anaya received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. Times and among other things, the Times cited his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, as “the most widely read and critically acclaimed novel in the Chicano literary canon.”
For all of these reasons and more, the Department of English and University Libraries will sponsor a Reading Marathon of Bless Me, Ultima on Monday, April 23rd in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with a student, faculty or staff member reading the first page of the novel, and it will conclude at about 5 p.m. when Rudolfo Anaya reads the last page. The reading will be followed by a reception. The Southwest Research Center will have a collection of Anaya’s papers—including manuscript pages from Bless Me, Ultima—on display
Forty-eight readers will take the podium throughout the day, and those who stop in to listen will have the chance to sign up for hourly door prizes—books, book bags, signed Edward Gonzalez posters, gift certificates and free dinners at participating restaurants.
Money raised from the event will go to endow the Rudolfo Anaya Scholarship Fund in the English Department.
For all of these reasons and more, the Department of English and University Libraries will sponsor a Reading Marathon of Bless Me, Ultima on Monday, April 23rd in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. The event will begin at 8 a.m. with a student, faculty or staff member reading the first page of the novel, and it will conclude at about 5 p.m. when Rudolfo Anaya reads the last page. The reading will be followed by a reception. The Southwest Research Center will have a collection of Anaya’s papers—including manuscript pages from Bless Me, Ultima—on display
Forty-eight readers will take the podium throughout the day, and those who stop in to listen will have the chance to sign up for hourly door prizes—books, book bags, signed Edward Gonzalez posters, gift certificates and free dinners at participating restaurants.
Money raised from the event will go to endow the Rudolfo Anaya Scholarship Fund in the English Department.
Anita Obermeier is Given OGS Faculty Mentor Award
Anita Obermeier has been named the 2012 recipient of the OGS Faculty Mentor Award. The award is given to an outstanding faculty member who has provided exceptional service and excellence in mentoring graduate students in his or her own or in other departments. The mentoring activities may be with regard to teaching, research, service, academic achievement, or
professional development.
professional development.
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