tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42730951651013591672024-02-18T20:30:04.011-08:00UNM English News and EventsEnglish at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.comBlogger578125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-25976977814264581412015-11-25T14:40:00.000-08:002015-11-25T14:40:59.671-08:00Professor Obermeier Publishes Book ReviewDr. Obermeier has published a book review of Joerg O. Fichte's From Camelot to Obamalot: Essays on Medieval and Modern Arthurian Literature (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010) in the Journal for English and Germanic Philology 114.3 (2015): 453-56.Relevant Links:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jenglgermphil.114.3.0453#pdf_only_tab_contents
English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-32218377349171099632015-11-09T14:09:00.001-08:002015-11-09T14:37:29.332-08:00Faculty & Graduate Conference Appearances and Presentations October 2015
Assistant Professor of English Sarah L. Townsend organized the 2015 American Conference for Irish Studies Western Regional meeting (ACIS-West) October 16-17
in Rapid City, South Dakota. The conference theme, "Ireland: Memory and
Monument," explored acts of memory and commemoration in Irish literature,
history, politics, and culture. Keynote speakers included David C. Lloyd
(Distinguished English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-10020338517467044202015-10-16T15:48:00.000-07:002015-10-16T15:48:33.231-07:00Rudolfo & Patricia Anaya Lecture on Literature of the SouthwestPlease Join us! October 22, 7:00 p.m., George Pearl Hall, Room 101
Anne Hillerman
On Thursday, October 22, the UNM Department ofEnglish will host distinguished writer Anne Hillerman as the featured speaker for the sixth annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest.
Hillerman will speak about “Why Stories Matter” at 7:00 p.m. in Room 101 of George Pearl Hall (English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-90948260369442816082015-10-15T15:12:00.000-07:002015-10-15T15:12:48.843-07:00Helen Damico's Book Discussion and Signing at the UNM BookstoreProfessor Emerita of English Medieval Language and Literature, Damico hosted a discussion and signing of her new book, Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin: Politics and Poetry in Eleventh-Century England (West Virginia University Press, 2015) on Tuesday, October 13th, at the UNM Bookstore:
English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-22718140387010815832015-10-15T14:58:00.000-07:002015-10-15T14:58:16.943-07:00Daniel Worden published by Cambridge University PressWorden's essay on "The Popular Western" will be published this
month in Cambridge University Press's History of Western American Literature,
edited by Susan Kollin.
Relevant Links:
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/history-western-american-literature
English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-15645615594964956992015-10-15T14:54:00.000-07:002015-10-23T14:53:18.382-07:00Karra Shimabukuro publishes "I Framed Freddy: Functional Aesthetics in the A Nightmare on Elm Street Series"
While existing work on modern horror tends to focus on a small range of
exceptional examples of the genre, and generally finds value in the films
through the application of sociopolitical, psychoanalytic, or other theoretical
frameworks, the broader trend of the for-profit Hollywood studio produced
and/or distributed texts and the elements of their construction have been
largely ignored. Style English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-75495969287998261412015-10-15T14:46:00.002-07:002015-10-15T14:46:45.167-07:00Kelly Hunnings published in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Fall 2015
Review of Gender Hurts: a Feminist Analysis of the Politics of
Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys [New York: Routledge]. Rocky Mountain Review
of Language and Literature, Fall 2015 (69.2)
English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-71741421479920173372015-10-15T14:43:00.000-07:002015-10-15T14:43:08.940-07:00Daniel Mueller published by The Writing Disorder, Summer 2015"The Embers" is a short story set in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Themes of religion,
marital fidelity, teenage pregnancy, incest, and abortion rights.
Relevant Links:
http://writingdisorder.com/daniel-mueller/
English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-50178722958833389352015-10-15T14:38:00.000-07:002015-10-15T14:38:48.432-07:00Julianne Newmark published by Modern Language Studies, Summer 2015"Claims to Political Place through the National Council of American
Indians: Locating Gertrude and Raymond Bonnin in the Nation’s Capital."
During the first three decades of the twentieth
century, many Native leaders emerged on the national political stage, figuring
prominently as lobbyists, contributors of Congressional testimony, leaders of
national pan-Indian organizations, and vitally English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-23825632495840532822015-10-15T14:29:00.000-07:002015-10-15T14:29:20.328-07:00Julianne Newmark published by IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication First Quarter 2015Learning Beyond the Classroom and Textbook: Workplace Enculturation via
Technical Communication Client Projects and Internships with
Elisabeth Kramer-Simpson and Julie Dyke Ford.
From the online description on the journal's website: the article
"explores how approaches such as client projects in technical
communication courses for majors prepare students for internships and their
transition to English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-10253136062087724912015-10-15T14:17:00.000-07:002015-10-15T14:47:02.454-07:00Kelly Hunnings published in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Spring 2015
Review of Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism by James Prothero [Cambridge Scholars
Publishing]. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Spring
2015 (69.1): 114-116.
English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-53520440392274769222015-10-15T14:11:00.000-07:002015-10-15T14:39:04.322-07:00Julianne Newmark published The Pluralist Imagination from East to West in American Literature in January 2015The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the largest period of
immigration in U.S. history. This immigration, however, was accompanied by
legal segregation, racial exclusionism, and questions of residents national
loyalty and commitment to a shared set of American beliefs and identity.
The faulty premise that homogeneity as the symbol of the melting pot was
the mark of a strong nationEnglish at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-45637923307098256732015-10-15T13:40:00.000-07:002015-11-09T14:09:40.877-08:00Faculty & Graduate Conference Appearances and Presentations since Spring 2014Anita Obermeier. "Birth and Birth Control in Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales." Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic, and
Technology. University of London. London, UK: July 10-11, 2015.
Anita Obermeier. "Merlin, the Clown, and the Queer in Rowley’s The
Birth of Merlin." 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies,.
Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: May 14-17, 2015.
Anita English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-76689675554942647112015-09-28T15:23:00.000-07:002015-10-09T09:34:01.345-07:00Helen Damico Book Discussion & Signing - Tuesday, October 13thEnglish at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-64684652832583913032015-09-25T14:39:00.000-07:002015-09-25T14:39:13.350-07:00Tanaya Winder Poetry Reading and Book Release: Words Like LoveUNM MFA alumna Tanaya Winder will host a poetry reading and book release at Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW) on Tuesday, September 29th, at 7:00pm.
In her debut collection, Words Like Love, poet Tanaya Winder sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. Love is defined by familial, cultural, platonic, and romantic bonds in these passionate and thoughtfully rendered poems. Winder’s voice English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-26122101324073766882015-09-18T09:01:00.000-07:002015-09-18T09:02:24.208-07:00Announcing the Inaugural ALS Seminar Symposium
Tuesday,
October 20, 2015
4:00pm-7:30pm
Humanities
108
The
ALS faculty invites all English Department graduate students and faculty to
participate in the inaugural ALS seminar symposium and reception. The event
brings together Dr. Vizcaíno-Alemán's English 610: Critical Regionalism and Dr.
Coleman's English 660: Race and the African American Novel to discuss selected
seminar readings with English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-77791711680353847712015-09-09T15:36:00.001-07:002015-09-09T15:36:24.964-07:00Alemán publishes chapter on teaching nineteenth-century US Latino/a literatures
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Jesse
Alemán’s chapter, “Recovered and Recovery Texts of the Nineteenth Century,”
leads off Latino/a Literature in the
Classroom: Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Teaching, edited by Frederick
Luis Aldama and recently published by Routledge. The essay is a scholarly piece
on teaching nineteenth-century US Latino/a literatures, surveying major texts
to be included in the English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-36805329307933126902015-08-27T15:08:00.001-07:002015-08-27T15:08:51.608-07:00Anita Obermeier publishes article on Merlin's Devil Conception in Arthuriana's special volume dedicated to "Arthur on the Stage."
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English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-58046045328561244002015-08-21T13:44:00.000-07:002015-08-21T13:44:13.015-07:00Baker Named the 2015-16 Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellow
W.
Oliver Baker, an American Literary Studies Ph.D. candidate in the University of
New Mexico English Department, has been awarded the 2015-2016 Center for
Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship.
Baker
earned both his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In
his master's program, Baker studied American literature, rhetoric and
composition, while also serving as a English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-52232410128895871712015-07-23T13:29:00.000-07:002015-07-23T13:29:04.753-07:00Daniel Worden’s edited volume The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World published by the University Press of Mississippi
Daniel
Worden’s latest book, an edited collection of essays titled The Comics of Joe
Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World, has just been published by the University
Press of Mississippi. The book also features an essay by UNM English PhD
Candidate Ann D’Orazio.
The
Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his
early comics stories as well as his ground-breaking English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-43006878802113438022015-07-23T13:23:00.000-07:002015-07-23T13:23:47.025-07:00ALS PhD Student W. Oliver Baker wins the Michael Sprinker Essay Prize
W. Oliver Baker’s essay “The Materialism of Violence and
the Politics of Recognition in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian” has won the
Michael Sprinker Prize, a national essay competition hosted by the Marxist
Literary Group and the editors of the journal Mediations. The Michael Sprinker
award recognizes an essay or dissertation chapter that engages with Marxist
theory, scholarship, pedagogy, andEnglish at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-18239706553276046622015-06-02T11:56:00.000-07:002015-06-02T11:56:26.228-07:00Alemán Delivers Burke Lecture in TaosAs the 2015 Jim and Linda Burke Visiting Scholar in Literature at the Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, Dr. Jesse Alemán delivered a lecture on Southwestern horror in film at the Taos Art Museum and Fechin House. Read more about it below in Laura Bulkin's article from the Taos Tempo:
Taos lecture: 'From Atomic Ants to Texas Cannibals'
What do giant radioactive ants have in common English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-53411290372047932732015-05-28T13:50:00.000-07:002015-05-28T13:50:07.886-07:00Tiffany Bourelle Named 2015-16 Teaching Fellow
The Center for Teaching Excellence selected Assistant Professor Tiffany Bourelle to be a 2015-16 Teaching Fellow.Teaching Fellows will investigate carefully-defined teaching challenges by examining the latest research on teaching and learning in their disciplines, designing a teaching innovation, and by collecting and evaluating evidence of student learning in their own courses. At the end ofEnglish at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-73098350870116915952015-05-28T13:33:00.001-07:002015-05-28T13:33:45.154-07:00Jonathan Davis-Secord Awarded Medieval Academy Book SubventionAssistant Professor Davis-Secord's book, Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press, has been awarded the Medieval Academy Book Subvention, which provides support for the publication of first books at university and scholarly presses.English at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273095165101359167.post-3279363233835843752015-05-27T14:16:00.000-07:002015-05-27T14:16:50.213-07:00Julie Williams Receives Inaugural ALS-Arms Dissertation Research Assistantship
Julie Williams, PhD candidate in American Literary Studies, has garnered the inaugural ALS Elizabeth and George Arms Fund for American Literature Research Assistantship for Dissertation Completion to assist and facilitate the research and writing of her dissertation, “Embodying the West: A Literary and Cultural History of Environment, Body, and Belief.”
Focusing on embodiment in women’s writingEnglish at UNMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474038081762398828noreply@blogger.com0