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Elizabeth Tannen has a post at Huffington Post about Facebook and writers. Read the entire post here.

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The Taos Summer Writers' Conference will be featured in the May/June Issue of Writer's Digest. Learn more about this year's workshops at the Conference website here.

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MFA alumnus Israel Wasserstein just announced that his poetry book, This Ecstasy They Call Damnation, will be published by Woodley Press. The book was his MFA dissertation.

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Congratulations to Carolyn Kuchera, PhD in American Literature in Fall 2011, who has accepted a full-time one-year position at UNM-Gallup.

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Suzanne Richardson's poem, 'Valley Fever,' has been accepted by Blood Orange Review for their winter issue 6.4. Read the poem here.

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BBC Radio 4 is producing a series on the written word and how it shaped and changed human intellectual history. The series, hosted by Melvyn Bragg, can be heard in its entirety here. To promote the series a short video is available on BBC News here, featuring beautiful images from the Gutenberg Bible, as well as a fascinating look at Sir Isaac Newton's student notes.

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Issue Two of the Young Men's Magazine, a six edition work hand-written by Charlotte Bronte at the age of 14 and containing stories set in the imaginary world of Glass Town which she and her siblings had created, is up for auction at Sotheby's. The edition is under 2 1/2 inches tall and contains over 4,000 words, including an early version of a scene from Jane Eyre. Read more here.

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An anonymous artist in Edinburgh has left a number of beautiful sculptures, made from and inspired by books, in literary locations around the city. The sculptures were accompanied by small notes expressing support for books, stories and creativity: "A gift in support of libraries, books, works, ideas... Once upon a time there was a book and in the book was a nest and in the nest was an egg and

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CAPTCHA inventor Louis von Ahn has been putting his invention to good use. Take a look at his TED.com presentation to see how online forms are helping to digitize out-of-print books, and how his approach to large-scale online collaboration could bring the internet to non-English speakers across the world:

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Creative Writing instructor Michelle Brooks has recently had her book of poetry, Make Yourself Small, published with The Backwaters Press.  "One might be forgiven for thinking that the almost universally dark subject matter of these eloquent poems—rape and its aftermath, murder, aberrant psychology, divorce, suicide—might make for gloomy reading. Banish the thought! These poems perfectly

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Works in Progress Reading Series December reading: Wednesday, December 7 at 7:00 PMWinnings Coffee House American Book-Award winner Sasha Pimentel Chacon Non-Fiction by Ben Dolan Fiction by Katie Pelletier

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Amy Beeder has work forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Blackbird, and Cerise Press.

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The 5th Annual New Mexico Book Awards sponsored by the New Mexico Book Co-op, were announced recently and we are pleased to report that Professor Emeritus Rudolfo Anaya was honored  for his novel, Randy Lopez Goes Home, published June of this year.

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In Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God, recently accepted by Ohio State University Press for publication, I assert that if Victorian women writers yearned for authorial forebears, or, in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s words, for “grandmothers,” perhaps that longing had something to do with what Barrett referred to as “mother-want,” a sense of the actual and

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Wesleyan University Press has just released Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo by Joy Harjo and Tanaya Winder Foreword by Laura Coltelli Joy Harjo is a “poet-healer-philosopher-saxophonist,” and one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. She has spent the past two decades creating and exploring her place in poetry, music, dance/performance, and art.

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English department graduate students Lindsay Ives and Leah Schneider have founded an on-line, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the work of graduate students. Read more about their project at the Daily Lobo here. And explore the new journal, In Progress at their website here. 

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Join us at Winning's Coffee House for the latest in the Works in Progress Reading Series: Friday, November 11th 7:00 PM Faculty reader: Justin St. Germain Fiction: David Rubalcava Poetry: Tanaya Winder Non-Fiction: Jennifer Simpson

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A sizable contingent of our graduate scholars presented papers at the Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain MLA in Scottsdale AZ, October 6-8, 2011. Katherine Marie Alexander, Chair of Mary Shelley Session.Presenter: "Mary Shelley's Mask of Feminine Propriety: A Subliminal Technique or a Divided Self?" Justin Brock, "For the Sake of Another: Examining Women as Mediators and Go-Betweens in the

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The American Studies Lecture Series presents: A talk by George Yúdice, Professor and Chair of Modern Literature and Language at the University of Miami, on “The Conundrums of Latino Media” Talk: November 17, 3-4:30PM SUB 3rd Floor - Fiesta room Brown Bag: November 18, 12-1PM SUB 3rd Floor - Acoma Room A&B This event is sponsored by the American Studies Department with support from the Latin

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Jennifer Simpson's poem "intervals" will be published in A Year in Ink, Vol.V with special guest editors: T. Greenwood and Brandon Cesmat.  The anthology is a collection of writing from the San Diego writing community. (Jennifer gives much thanks to her colleagues in the Spring 2011 poetry workshop and former Russo Chair Dana Levin)

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Graduate student Nicholas Schwartz, facilitator of the Medieval Outreach Program, talks about the program's background and its current efforts in Albuquerque schools.  Read the entire article here.

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Natalie Becenti, who graduated from UNM with her BA in English in May 2011, has received a scholarship from the American Indian College Fund to continue her higher education. A member of Acoma Pueblo and a former Miss Indian UNM, Ms. Becenti will continue her education by pursuing a second BA in Family Studies. The AICF scholarship will fund Ms. Becenti for the remaining semesters she has to

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Two Positions in Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Program Administration: Open Rank and Assistant Professor We invite applications for two full-time, tenured/tenure-track positions to begin August 2012: •Open-rank (Associate or Full Professor) tenured senior position •Tenure-track junior position at the Assistant Professor level (probationary appointment leading to tenure) Responsibilities:

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MFA student Elizabeth Tannen has the cover article in this month's issue of Local Flavor. It's a profile of Lily Falk, who owns the dress shop "Lily of the West" in Santa Fe.

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Anita Obermeier and the UNM Institute for Medieval Studies hosted the 26th Annual International Congress on Medievalism on October 21-22, 2011. The program focused on “Medievalism, Arthuriana, and Landscapes of Enchantment” and included exciting plenaries by Elizabeth Sklar (Wayne State University) on “King Arthur in Kentucke: Alternative Arthurian History” and Kevin Harty (La Salle University)

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The Fred M & Rose Ellen Calkins Scholarship Description: The Calkins award is for outstanding New Mexico resident scholars enrolled full time within the College of Arts & Sciences.  To remain eligible for the Scholarship, you will need to maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above, and continue making outstanding academic progress toward a degree. Selection Criteria:   a.. Declared major in

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Please join us: Friday, November 11th from 11:00 - 12:15 Dickey Memorial Theater (1st Floor Humanities building) Rolando Hinojosa-Smith is the Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He was born in Mercedes, Texas. He earned his BA from the University of Texas, an MA from New Mexico Highlands University, and his doctorate from the University of Illinois

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Oct 28, Friday, room 108, 12-1:30, a Reader's Theatre performance of Hugh Witemeyer's play on DH Lawrence in New Mexico, actors from our own faculty and student groups. Bring your own lunch and Halloween treats will be provided.

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516 ARTS and The Local Poets Guild present an evening of poems on the theme of Superheroes. Hosted by Hakim Bellamy the event will feature poet Gary Jackson (MFA 2008) with current MFA candidates Bonnie Altamirano, Nick DePascal and Nora Hickey for a reading and celebration in the gallery. Friday, October 28 at 7pm Also featured, winners of the 516 Arts Superheroes Poetry Contest, among them

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University of New Mexico Department of English Language and Literature MSC03 2170, Albuquerque, NM 87131 ÿhttp://www.unm.edu/~english Assistant or Associate Professor in Old English Language & Literature The Department of English at the University of New Mexico invites applications for a probationary appointment leading to a tenure decision at the advanced Assistant or Associate Professor level,

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The next English Department Colloquium will be Thursday, October 27, 12:30-1:45, in Humanities 108 (NOTE VENUE CHANGE). Dr. Kathleen Washburn will deliver her research presentation: “Cherokee Soldier/Blackfoot Chief: Fake Indian Memoirs and the Contours of Native American literature.” No advance readings for this presentation. See you there!

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An international poetry competition run by the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, (http://www.munsterlit.ie) is currently open for submissions. Winners will be published in Southword journal which has previously showcased Billy Collins, Sinéad Morrissey, Martín Espada, Greg Delanty, Tess Gallagher, Matthew Sweeney and Brian Turner amongst many other respected literary figures. (http://

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MFA student Elizabeth Tannen has had an essay published on Salon.com. Read the entire essay here: http://life.salon.com/2011/10/11/our_food_porn_romance/

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Wednesday, October 19th 6:30 p.m. George Pearl Hall Auditorium On Wednesday, October 19, the UNM Department of English will host the distinguished Las Cruces writer Denise Chávez as the featured speaker for the second annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest. Chávez will address the connections among Chicana feminism and borderlands literature

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American Literary Studies is happy to welcome Dr. Belinda Deneen Wallace as a Visiting Professor with a joint position in English and Africana Studies. Dr. Wallace received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park (2006) and held a postdoctoral fellowship in UNM’s Africana Studies Program from 2007 to 2009. Dr. Wallace is a post-colonialist who specializes in contemporary

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Current MFA student Suzanne Richardson's essay "Throw it Up" has been accepted for publication in New Ohio Review.    MFA Alumni Jeremy Collins' essay "When We Were Young and Confederate" has been accepted for publication in Chautauqua.    MFA Alumni Chris Wrenn's essay "Breaking Line," published last year in North Carolina Literary Review, has been named a Notable Essay of 2010 in the just

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Natalie Kubasek, a second year doctoral student in American Literary Studies, has been named a recipient of UNM’s 2011-2012 Latino/a Graduate and Professional Student Fellowship. Sponsored by El Centro de la Raza and the Title V Resource Center, the $1,000 award seeks to increase the representation of Latina/o graduate and professional students within the UNM community. The goal is to serve as

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Marisa Clark's essay "Here Come the Brides," published in the Apalachee Review, was named a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2011.  Congratulations, Marisa!

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Enjoy these videos of students from Carolyn Woodward's English 294 : Early English Literature class, presenting Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act2 Sc 1-3 & 5. Part One: Part Two:

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Google Books has now scanned over 12 million books and a group of mathematicians and statisticians at Harvard are using that information to produce graphs of word and phrase frequencies through time. Here's their presentation at TedX: Interested in the project? Google has made the analytical tool publicly available on their online lab site here.

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ALS is happy to welcome Dr. Daniel Worden as a Visiting Professor of English. Dr. Worden holds a PhD from Brandies University and is on leave from a tenure track position as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Dr. Worden's research and teaching covers American literature and culture from 1880 to the present, with focus on the history of literary and

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At the next English Department Colloquium Professor Carmen Nocentelli will present her research talk, ISLANDS OF LOVE: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND THE EURO-ASIAN ENCOUNTER. No advance reading for this presentation. See you there! Tuesday September 27, 12:30-1:45 , SUB Santa Ana A and B (note venue change).

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Elizabeth Tannen has had an article published at NPR.org on the 9/11 anniversary: 1,000 Miles Away But Feeling Tragedy's Real Effects

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Graduate student Elizabeth Tannen has a piece about the Sandia Tramway called "Take it to the Limit" in the September issue of Local Flavor.

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English department MFA student Vondell (Von) Jones was recently published in a special edition of “Your Royal Wedding,” an anthology of stories and comments printed in Great Britain. Von’s short story, titled: “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi,” was published in August, 2011 as part of a compilation of poems, fiction, illustrations and non-fiction reports solicited from writers around the world,

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Please join us for the first English Department Colloquium presentation for Fall 2011 Thursday Sept. 8, 12:30-1:45 in the English Department lounge. Aeron Hunt will discuss her forthcoming article, "The Authoritative Medium: George Eliot, Ruin, and the Rationalized Market." For a copy of the paper in advance of the colloquium, please contact Aeron: aeron@unm.edu.

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The fourth annual Albuquerque Cultural Conference: “Cultural Survival in Difficult Times” meets August 26-28, 2011 in Albuquerque. A poetry reading, “To Have or Have Not” opens the conference at the Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd SE, Friday night, August 26, from 7-10 pm. Readers include local poets Hakim Bellamy, Carlos Contreras, Lisa Gill, Jessica Helen Lopez, Mary Oishi, Margaret

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A XICANA CODEX OF CHANGING CONSCIOUSNESS A Literary & Visual Art Presentation with Cherríe Moraga and Celia Herrera Rodríguez Essayist, poet, playwright, and activist Cherríe Moraga will read from her new collection of non-fiction writings Xicana Codex (Duke University Press, 2011). Painter, scenic designer, and performance artist Celia Herrera Rodríguez will present on the series of

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Deborah Weagel, a part-time instructor, published her article “Image as Text, Text as Image: Quilts and Quiltmaking in Eric Gansworth’s Mending Skins” in Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.1 (Spring 2011). She also published “The Quilt as (Non-)Commodity in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.’s The Star Quilter” in Western American Literature 46.1 (Spring 2011). Her review of Kyle Gann’s There is

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"Julie Williams, a Ph.D. can­di­date in Eng­lish, with a con­cen­tra­tion in Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary Stud­ies, has received the Cen­ter for Regional Stud­ies Hec­tor Tor­res Fellowship." Read the entire article at UNM Today.

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Elizabeth Tannen had a guest blog post on the Psychology Today blog. Read the post here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/singletons/201108/don-t-call-elizabeth-tannen-only-child

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Save the Date: Back to school department party When: August 18, Thursday evening, 5:00-9:00 Where: Hibben Center Food, drink, company Say hello to old friends, meet some new ones!

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Justin St. Germain grew up in Tombstone, Arizona. His memoir, Son of a Gun, is forthcoming from Random House, and his writing has appeared in the Best of the West anthology, ZYZZYVA, Western American Literature, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Sewanee Writers Conference, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He has

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Natalie Adel Scenters-Zapico's  poem "Succulence" has been selected for publication by The Bellevue Review for their upcoming tenth anniversary issue.

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Tanaya Winder has had her essay, "One Foot in Front of the Other by Tanaya Winder" published online at StyleSubstanceSoul. Read the entire article here.

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How should a writer go about promoting their work? Read this article about writers on the internet.

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Around 250,000 texts dating from 1700 - 1870 will be available to read and copy free thanks to a deal between the British Library and the search engine Google. Read the entire BBC News article here.

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Write Your Heart Out (Stories based on your life experiences) A One-week Summer Writing Workshop in El Rito, New Mexico August 8th to August 12th, 2011 Expected arrival August 7th Workshop Facilitator                    Roberta Orona-Cordova robertao@windstream.net “It’s such a peaceful place, and there is much to see and do.  It’s a great place to get away to and start or finish that story you

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MFA candidate Elizabeth Tannen's short essay was included in All Things Considered Summer Series: Sounds Of The Season. You can read her essay here.

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MFA candidate Jennifer Simpson's short essay, "Mom's Chicken Divan" was published on StyleSubstanceSoul. The essay is an excerpt from her in-progress memoir / dissertation, "Reconstructing My Mother." You can read the essay on-line here. Check out Jennifer's blog here.

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On June 9th at 9:00 AM Adobe is presenting an online seminar titled, "Adobe ePublishing for Academia." From the seminar description: "Join John Schuman, Adobe Higher Education expert, as he covers how Case Western Reserve and Indiana University use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for publishing scholarly information to the next generation of tablet devices." You can register for this free

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Philip Stephens Honors recipient Philip Stephens had a story published in Conceptions Southwest titled, "Vondelpark", using his full pen name of Philip Charles Stephens (unfortunately misspelled in the magazine). He plans to continue work on the story and is hoping for further publication. Philip's Honors thesis was entitled "Captain Wizzlebeaks: Science Fiction and the Technologized Lens",

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The Communications Career site Media-Entertainment-Jobs has a list of employment opportunities for communication/media graduates. Check out the website here.

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The 2011 Teacher's Institute program is full and registration has been closed.

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Yale University has launched its art and artifact collection online, including over 33,000 prints, drawings and photographs, and 45 rare books and manuscripts. Take a look at this excellent research resource here.

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In an English department e-books are, to say the least, a fraught subject. The debate could simplistically (and probably misleadingly) be reduced to that of body - the format of a book (hardback, paperback, e-book) vs soul (content). With the proliferation of the e-reader - Kindle, Nook, Sony's Reader and, of course, the Ipad/Ipod apps that allow readers to use multiple platforms - the e-book is

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MFA student Tanaya Winder's poems, "consider the assemblage of a longing," and "measure by measure: the body begs," have been published on Superstition Review. Read more here.

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MFA student Elizabeth Tannen's essay, "My Mother Reads My Blog," has been published in the online magazine, StyleSubstanceSoul. Read the essay here.

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Congratulations to MFA candidate Ty Bannerman whose article "The 7 Deadly sins of New Mexico" has been published in The Alibi. You can read his article here.

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The Center for Regional Studies and the English Department at the University of New Mexico announce the Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship. The Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship supports graduate research and scholarship in the English Department directly related to the late Dr. Hector Torres’ fields, as well as the mission of the Center for Regional

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Undergraduate Chelsea Stallings has written to the Daily Lobo praising the English department and the Political Science department. Read the full letter here.

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  Jesse Peters received his Ph.D. from the UNM English Department in December 1999.  His Dissertation Director was Professor Louis Owens. His dissertation was titled: “Only the Drum Is Confident”: Simulations and Syncretisms in Native American Fiction. Where is  Dr. Peters now? He joined the faculty of UNC Pembroke in the Fall of 1999. Currently, he is a tenured Professor of English and

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Anita Obermeier presented her paper “Merlin’s Conception Story in Arthurian Legends in Light of Scholastic Discourse” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) in Scottsdale Arizona. She furthermore chaired a Medieval Association of the Pacific-sponsored session titled “Medieval Borders” that was recorded and can be accessed at http://vod.csun.edu/~english/MedievalBoders2011.

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Jeremy Ricketts has being awarded one of five 2010-2011 Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistant of the Year Awards. The Awards ceremony will take place Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at 2 pm in SUB, Ballroom C

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Congratulations to Erin Murrah-Mandril who has been awarded the FRI Best Paper Prize for her essay, "Misreading the Feminine: Representation of Women in the Far West in Mary Hallock Foote’s 'Maverick'."

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Congratulations to Leigh Johnson who has successfully defended her dissertation and has accepted a tenure-track American literature position with Marymount University in Arlington, VA.

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Congratulations to Christine Kozikowski, who was selected for UNM’s Graduate Research Supplement Award, the FRI’s Graduate Student Research Grant, and the Medieval Association of the Pacific’s John F. Benton Award. These awards will support Christine’s forthcoming research trip to London for her dissertation, “Reading Privacy in Middle English Texts, 1350-1450: Private Space, Public Face.”

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Professor Lynn Beene will present "'Detective Poetry' or Poe-tics" from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in the English Department Lounge (HUM 235).  This will be the final EDC of the spring semester.

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Read a fascinating article (part one of four) by Adam Hochschild on academic versus popular writing. Read Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, part 1 at Nieman Storyboard here.

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Writers might be interested in this fascinating interview with Oliver Broudy where he discusses his work The Saint and his experience with releasing it as an E-Book through Amazon. Read the article at the Neiman Storyboard here.

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It has just been announced that Dr. Jesse Aleman is one of the recipients of the College of Arts & Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence for 2010-11. The award ceremony is on May 6, 2pm in 125 Dane Smith Hall. 

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The Feminist Research Institute invites you to a panel presentation: Queer Politics: Gay and Lesbian Impacts in Political Spaces of the US and Mexico Wednesday, April 20th 12:00-1:30 p.m. SUB Cherry/ Silver Panel Presenters: Lucinda Grinnell, PhD Candidate, History “Grassroots and Global?: Defending Lesbian Rights as Human Rights in Mexico” Lavinia Nicolae, PhD Candidate, Anthropology “

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The English Department is pleased to announce the Wertheim and Kelleher Awards for 2011. The Wertheim Award is intended for "tenured faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the profession." This year we have two awardees in this category, both of whom have illustrated their extraordinary strengths in publishing and in serving the department, college, and university, as well as

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The English department and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in English, Dan Mueller, are pleased to announce the undergraduate students receiving Honors in English at graduation in May, 2011. Andrew Field has been awarded summa cum laude for his Honors Thesis, "'For All That May Yet Be True': Subjunctive Narrative and Postmodernity in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon." His Honors

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Registration is now open for the 2011 Teacher's Institute. Register on-line here

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The English department's literary journal Blue Mesa Review is featured in The Alibi and includes an interview with Suzanne Richardson, MFA candidate in fiction writing and the editor in chief of the journal . Read the article here. Visit Blue Mesa Review's website here.

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Victorian lit researchers, students and aficionados should take a look at this database of Victorian Magazines: The 1890's Online. From their site description: "The 1890s Online is an electronic resource dedicated to the study of fin-de-siècle literature and culture from the perspective of the period’s innovative magazines. We publish facsimile editions of selected periodicals, together

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The English Department has purchased a two volume set, Shakespeare's First Folio: The History of the Book, in memory of Dr. Lizz Ketterer for the Zimmerman Library. We will be having an informal service and reception in the lounge on Monday, April 18th at 2 pm.  We encourage all to join us, and particularly extend an invitation to her students.

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Arts & Sciences Teachers’ Institute, Summer 2011 For teachers of college-bound students, grades 10, 11, and 12 Learning to Write : Writing to Learn Problem-based Instruction for Academic Literacy Wanda Martin, Ph. D., Associate Professor of English Almost all students coming to the University of New Mexico are required to take one or two semesters of first-year composition. Those courses,

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Jesse Alemán has been selected to receive an American Indian Student  Services' S.T.A.R.S award. The award--a Special Thank-you And  Recognition from Students--is unique because nominations for it come  directly from students who identify faculty members who have made a  positive impact on the student's college experience at UNM. A  recognition and honor ceremony will be held on Tuesday, April

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The 2011 SNEAD-WERTHEIM LECTURE will take tomorrow, Tuesday, April 12 at 4 pm.  DR. PATRICIA CROWN, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology presents “Cacao Consumption and Cuisine from Chaco to the Colonial Southwest” in the Hibben Center, Room 105.  There will be a reception following the lecture in the Hibben Atrium.

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We will have a department book sale from 4/11-4/15, next week, in the lobby. If you have used books we will sell them in the department ($1 for paperback and $2 for hardback) These can be of any genre.  Please take a look through your bookshelves and see what you are willing to donate.  If you have any hardback new books or paperback new books you are willing to donate, please bring them to the

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Dr Anita Obermeier is one of forty staff and faculty members nominated for this year’s Outstanding Student Service Provider. This award is given annually by the Division of Student Affairs to individuals who have made significant contributions to the quality of student life on campus and is considered to be one of the most coveted UNM awards bestowed upon an individual.       

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Congratulations to Dr. Susan Romano who recently received news that she has won the Rhetoric Society Quarterly's Kneupper Award for best 2010 article.

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Congratulations to Erin Murrah-Mandril, who was selected as one of UNM's Graduate Student Mentor recipients.The Graduate Student Mentor Award is a one time award of $1,000.00 for an outstanding graduate student who has provided exceptional service and excellence in mentoring other graduate students in his or her own or in other departments.

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The Department of English at the University New Mexico invites applications for a Russo Endowed Professor for Creative Writing in Creative Nonfiction for the academic year 2011-2012, with the possibility of renewal for up to three years.  We seek an outstanding writer with significant publications and demonstrated excellence as a teacher to work with students at the graduate and undergraduate

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Please join us on Thursday, March 31st from 12:00 - 1:00 in the department lounge for the English Department Colloquium featuring Professor Emeritus Jerry Shea. Dr Shea will be presenting "Stylistics and Tropes and Wonks, Oh My!" You can get a taste of his wonks online here.

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Congratulations to the Taos Summer Writers' Conference which was nominated for one of this year's Presidential Luminaria Awards.  The nominations reflected many very committed individuals and groups that have impacted the University of New Mexico with their work in diversity and social justice.   Visit the Taos Summer Writers' Conference website here

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Congratulations to department chair Gail Houston who has just been chosen by the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women as one of 20 women honored with the 26th Annual Governor's Award for Outstanding New Mexico Woman.  Dr. Deborah McFarlane from the Political Science department nominated Dr. Houston.   A banquet will be hel on Friday, May 6 to honor the awardees at the Hotel Albuquerque in

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A reminder, Steven Harris, subject librarian for the English department, will be holding office hours in our lounge on Thursday, March 24 from 1-3 pm. Please drop by with any questions you have about research, acquisitions, special collections etc.

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