Four of Greg Martin's essays were recently published: “Two True Stories About Breathing” (essay) Kenyon Review Online, August 2010; “A Memoir is a Reckoning” (craft essay) The Writer, September 2010; “The Great Bewilderment” (essay) The Sun, March 2011; and "Brittany's Choice: A ten-year-old girl refuses life-sustaining surgery" (literary journalism) Witness, Spring 2012. Also, his memoir: Stories for Boys, will be published by Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, forthcoming October 2012.
Greg also received the Federal Assistance Award: The U.S. Embassy Speaker Series, October 2010 (U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Madrid, Spain). Award sponsored honorarium and travel for a series of invited lectures and readings at universities in Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Bilbao and Vitoria-Basteiz, Spain, including the Keynote address at The American Literary West International Conference, The University of the Basque Country.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Justin St. Germain's story will be published by UNM Press
Justin St. Germain had his story, "The Last Day of the Boom," accepted for the anthology: New Stories from the Southwest volume 2, to be published by UNM press.
Adam Nunez & Bonnie Arning: MFA publications and awards
Adam Nunez had his poetry published in the Connecticut Review, Fall 2011 and LUMINA, Fall 2010. He also had a review published in Pleiades, Winter 2011. He also published a chap book, with associated reading series: Ghosts and Projectors, Spring 2012. Adam also received 2nd place in The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, October 2009, the Patricia Clark Smith Scholarship in Creative Writing, Spring 2011, and the Outstanding TA Award, Spring 2011. Adam was the Poetry Co-Editor for BMR, 2010-2011, and will have BA/MD GAship 2012.
Bonnie Arning will publish her poetery, "Lost Body," in Cream City Review, forthcoming fall 2012; and her fiction, "Bodies of Water," in Gargoyle Magazine, forthcoming fall 2012.
Bonnie Arning will publish her poetery, "Lost Body," in Cream City Review, forthcoming fall 2012; and her fiction, "Bodies of Water," in Gargoyle Magazine, forthcoming fall 2012.
Jesse Alemán named endowed faculty chair for Bread Loaf School of English
Dr. Jesse Alemán was recently awarded the Ruth and Lillian Marino endowed faculty chair for Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf Summer Graduate School of English. Named chairs represent endowments given to the Bread Loaf School of English by those who held it dear; the endowments are a major honor awarded to different faculty members across the four Bread Loaf campuses (Ripton, Vermont; Ashville, North Carolina; Oxford, UK; and Santa Fe, New Mexico) each year in recognition of excellence in teaching. The Ruth and Lillian Marino chair was established by Ruth and Lillian Marino, sisters and Bread Loaf graduates, who left the largest gift in Bread Loaf’s history. The fund has supported the salaries of many great Bread Loaf professors over the years, and this year, Bread Loaf awarded the Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair to Dr. Jesse Alemán. One student wrote, “Dr. Jesse Alemán is fantastic… the best professor I’ve had in three years of Bread Loaf. He’s dynamic, brilliant, caring, fun, fair and just wonderful!” In honor of the award, Dr. Alemán received a miniature Adirondack chair from Vermont, plus recognition of his teaching excellence at the annual Bread Loaf awards ceremony.
The Bread Loaf School of English is a summer residential graduate program of Middlebury College, providing education in British, American, and world literatures. The program offers Master of Arts and Master of Letters degrees in English and draws faculty from leading institutions to cultivate a diverse and dynamic learning community that fosters innovative, culturally responsive thinking, teaching, and professional development. Dr. Alemán has been a Bread Loaf summer graduate faculty member for six years, teaching courses on nineteenth-century American renaissance, the American gothic, and southwestern literature and film.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Gail Houston gives address at “The Other Dickens Conference,” in Portsmouth, England
On July 9, 2012, Professor Gail Turley Houston gave a plenary address at “The Other Dickens Conference,” sponsored by the University of Portsmouth in Portsmouth, England, where Dickens was born 200 years ago. Professor Houston spoke about her research on how the Victorian radical press viewed Dickens. Houston’s research on radical newspapers suggests that literature was as important to the radical movement as were political texts.
Her research on newspapers like The Northern Star, The Champion and Weekly Herald, and The Charter suggests that the radical press viewed Dickens as one of a handful of writers who brought a revolution to writing: a.) in terms of literally revolting against the contemporary writing style and b.) in terms of the content of the writing, which was considered politically revolutionary. Part of that revolution was to put the lower and lower middle-class at the center of the novel. As one radical journalist wrote, Dickens’s novels had made it possible to
“enlarg[e]” the “public sympathies” and to picture the “neglected bastard,” the “penniless poor,” and the “thin-dieted asylums,” cheap schools, prisons, and union workhouses.
The Northern Star points out a major historical shift because just “a few years ago the reading world was held captive by the magic pen” of Sir Walter Scott who limned the “chivalric doings and unmerited misfortunes or fictitious sorrows of gallant knights and ladies fair.” But “All this is changed” because “Charles Dickens and others like him have effected a revolution in novel writing.” As the journalist notes, “It is the many, not the few, who now form the materials from which are quarried the heroes and heroines of fiction” (“Reviews” The Northern Star and National Trades’ Journal 11 Jan 1845 issue 374).. To whom do the people “owe” a “deep debt of gratitude” for this change? Says the Northern Star, “to the William Howitt’s [and] . . . the Charles Dickens’ . . . of the ‘glorious republic of letters.’”
In 1846 The Northern Star describes Chartist T. Cooper’s response to the statement that, “The men of intellect and heart—Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, Eugene Sue, Thomas Cooper, and others” have given “free utterance to the aspirations and the thoughts that vibrate in the minds of the many” regarding the “sufferings endured by their fellow men.” Reiterating the idea that a new kind of writer made political change possible in England, Cooper comments, “There was now a literature that made the people think for themselves.” In conclusion and as a sign of that literature, Cooper testifies that though he himself was a “despised Chartist” when he “came from prison, Douglas Jerrold and C. Dickens were the first to take him by the hand.”
Her research on newspapers like The Northern Star, The Champion and Weekly Herald, and The Charter suggests that the radical press viewed Dickens as one of a handful of writers who brought a revolution to writing: a.) in terms of literally revolting against the contemporary writing style and b.) in terms of the content of the writing, which was considered politically revolutionary. Part of that revolution was to put the lower and lower middle-class at the center of the novel. As one radical journalist wrote, Dickens’s novels had made it possible to
“enlarg[e]” the “public sympathies” and to picture the “neglected bastard,” the “penniless poor,” and the “thin-dieted asylums,” cheap schools, prisons, and union workhouses.
The Northern Star points out a major historical shift because just “a few years ago the reading world was held captive by the magic pen” of Sir Walter Scott who limned the “chivalric doings and unmerited misfortunes or fictitious sorrows of gallant knights and ladies fair.” But “All this is changed” because “Charles Dickens and others like him have effected a revolution in novel writing.” As the journalist notes, “It is the many, not the few, who now form the materials from which are quarried the heroes and heroines of fiction” (“Reviews” The Northern Star and National Trades’ Journal 11 Jan 1845 issue 374).. To whom do the people “owe” a “deep debt of gratitude” for this change? Says the Northern Star, “to the William Howitt’s [and] . . . the Charles Dickens’ . . . of the ‘glorious republic of letters.’”
In 1846 The Northern Star describes Chartist T. Cooper’s response to the statement that, “The men of intellect and heart—Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, Eugene Sue, Thomas Cooper, and others” have given “free utterance to the aspirations and the thoughts that vibrate in the minds of the many” regarding the “sufferings endured by their fellow men.” Reiterating the idea that a new kind of writer made political change possible in England, Cooper comments, “There was now a literature that made the people think for themselves.” In conclusion and as a sign of that literature, Cooper testifies that though he himself was a “despised Chartist” when he “came from prison, Douglas Jerrold and C. Dickens were the first to take him by the hand.”
Friday, July 13, 2012
Vincent M. Basso’s poem published
Current MA Literature student Vincent M. Basso’s poem “Boris Karloff is Like a God to Me” has been published online in the current issue of Future Earth Magazine (http://futureearthmagazine.com/).
Friday, July 6, 2012
Jonathan Davis-Secord receives UT Teaching Award
Congratulations! Our new colleague in Old English, Dr. Jonathan Davis-Secord, has been chosen as a recipient of the University of Texas (all of Texas!!) Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award for 2012.
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