Tiffany and Andrew Bourelle Publish New On-line Resource

Tiffany Bourelle and Andrew Bourelle have published a webtext article in the digital peer-reviewed journal Kairos: Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. The article addresses how to develop a successful multimodal curriculum in a fully online classroom, providing instructors with advice on creating instructional tools.
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.1/praxis/robertson-et-al/index.html

Rananim program, the Online Writing Community of the Taos Summer Writers' Conference

The UNM Taos Summer Writers' Conference began sixteen years ago to create a link between UNM and the D.H. Lawrence Ranch just outside of beautiful Taos, NM. For years, the Conference has taken participants to the Ranch, had fellows stay in the fellowship cabin, and created that thing that Lawrence so desired: a utopian society where writers and artists of all kinds can go to create and commune.
This summer at the Conference, a new program called Rananim was created. The proceeds of Rananim, an Online Writing Community of the Taos Summer Writers' Conference, will go toward the renovation of the D. H. Lawrence Ranch. For more information about the new Rananim program, go to the website at http://www.unm.edu/~taosconf/ or watch the video that describes the ranch and the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKpSRK08S8.
The Rananim website includes a blog with posts about the Ranch. Here's the link:
http://rananim.unm.edu/blog

Richard Vargas' Guernica,revisited Reviewed

This review of Guernica,revisited was just published on Cultural Weekly, an ezine out of L.A. if you haven't had a chance to check it out, this gives you an idea. they also featured three poems from the book.

review
http://www.culturalweekly.com/coming-home-guernica-revisited-richard-vargas/

featured poems
http://www.culturalweekly.com/richard-vargas-three-poems/

Karra Shimabukuro Publishes Games & Dreams of Horror

Karra Shimabukuro has coming articles in two journals.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game as Liminal Space" will appear in Intensities Journal and explores the ways in which the game explores and rejects gender stereotypes, how the board game is “coded” for gender, how this compares to the target audience of the show, and how the game navigates and transverses the boundaries of both the source text, and the source genre.

"The Bogeyman of Your Nightmares: Freddy Krueger’s Folkloric Roots" will appear in Studies in Popular Culture in June.

Bourelles published in Digital Writing Assessment and Evaluation

Andy and Tiffany Bourelle had a chapter published this month in Digital Writing Assessment and Evaluation (Computers and Composition Digital Press, an imprint of Utah State University Press), entitled "Assessing Learning in Redesigned Online First-Year Composition Courses."

Here is the link to the chapter:

http://www.digitalwriting.org/dwae/12_bourelle.html

Tony Hillerman Portal Preview Event in Zimmerman Library

On Friday, June 14th at 5:30 pm University Libraries will host a preview event for the Tony Hillerman Portal ­– ehillerman.unm.edu – in the Willard Room in Zimmerman Library. The demonstration of the portal will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to all.

 

In 2005, Tony Hillerman donated his manuscripts, papers and notes to Zimmerman Library. It was immediately clear that they represented a treasure trove of unique historical anecdotes and an insightful roadmap into his creative process. Given Tony's stature as an icon of New Mexican culture, combined with the exhaustive nature of his collection of papers, it is clear that there existed an amazing opportunity to make them available for research, education and public enjoyment.

Recent advances in interactive technology offer exciting ways that we can make Tony's papers available electronically. Using hyperlinked text, digital images, audio and video, making his work come alive in ways never before thought possible. Users of this resource will be able to:

• Read Tony's manuscripts online, and view them in his own handwriting
• Learn about Tony's life and career
• View interviews with Tony, and experience New Mexico and the Southwest through his eyes
• See Tony's notes and idea books, and learn how he worked and developed his literary ideas
• Learn about New Mexico life, history and culture

His entire collection will be available to Hillerman enthusiasts, students and scholars world-wide through a unique website. The project goals are to: 

• Digitize Tony's manuscripts, papers, and idea notebooks (digitization alone will ensure the long term preservation of Tony's work)
• Collect and digitize photos, videos and documents about Tony's life and career
• Create electronic links in the digital manuscripts to references Tony made to New Mexico people, events and places.
• Design and build a web portal where internet users can go to view Tony's manuscripts and historical information about his life.

This is the first phase of the three-year project.This project will help further education in the Humanities, provide researchers an extensive new resource with which to investigate Tony Hillerman’s life and works, and help secure his legacy for future generations.

Jonathan Davis Secord has received funding for a Manuscripts lab

Professor Jonathan Davis Secord has received a Teaching Allocation Grant, for a “manuscripts lab,” consisting of a high-powered computer workstation, to facilitate undergraduate and graduate education in the Middle Ages.

Manuscripts are one of the best teaching tools available for medievalists, engaging students in unique ways by providing direct access to real historical materials. Guarded by European libraries, manuscripts are difficult to access physically, but many are now available digitally. The manuscripts lab will provide the computing power necessary to utilize the huge digital images these new resources produce. For years to come, the lab will bring the Middle Ages to life before our students’ eyes.

Two UNM English Alumna Reunite in Washington, DC

Two of the English Department’s recent graduates reunited for a poetry reading at Marymount University. In a moment of alumna networking, Leigh Johnson (PhD 2011) and Erika Sánchez (MFA 2010) were happy to work together again—this time in Washington DC. Erika gave an excerpted reading of her poetry manuscript at Marymount University in Arlington, VA, where Leigh is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Languages. The November 1, 2012 event was well attended by fifty students and faculty from the Marymount community. Students appreciated Erika's "frankness" in answering questions and her "beautiful grotesque" images.

Erika is a poet, feminist, and freelance writer living in Chicago. She is currently the sex and love advice columnist for Cosmopolitan for Latinas, a reader for Another Chicago Magazine, and a contributor for The Huffington Post, AlterNet, and NBC Latino, Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Drunken Boat, Witness, Anti-, Rhino, Hunger Mountain, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Copper Nickel, Southeast Review, and others. She has written book reviews for Kirkus Reviews and her nonfiction has been published in Jezebel and Ms. Magazine. She has appeared on American Public Media, the Jack Gravely Radio Show, and Huffington Post Live. She is working on her memoir and a poetry manuscript.

Leigh is in her second year as a tenure-track assistant professor at Marymount University. She teaches Early American Literature, American Multicultural Literature, composition, and gender studies to undergraduates. This semester, she's teaching the introduction to graduate studies course. Her article "Covert Wars in the Bedroom and Nation: Motherwork, Transnationalism, and Domestic Violence in Black Widow’s Wardrobe and Mother Tongue" is forthcoming from Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.

Congratulations to both graduates on their continued success and sustained collegiality!

Nick DePascal Pushcart & Best of the Net Poetry nominations

Nick DePascal has just been nominated by the Emerson Review for a Pushcart Prize for his poem "Entryways." The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, fiction, and essays published in small presses each year. The winners' work is collected in an anthology sold in most bookstores and available at most libraries. To find out more about the Pushcart Prize, you could visit http://www.pushcartprize.com/, and to find out more information about The Emerson Review, you could visit http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/emerson_review/index.html.

Last month, another poem of his was nominated for Sundress Publications' "Best of the Net" anthology. You could find out more about the "Best of the Net" anthology at http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/note.htm.

Creative Writing News

Faculty News:

Dan Mueller’s second collection of stories, Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey, has just been picked up by Outpost 19 Books. Outpost 19 is an independent publisher based in San Francisco and New York. Stay tuned for more updates. Until then, you could check out Outpost 19 at http://www.outpost19.com/

Student News:

Ty Bannerman’s essay “The Exhibition” is a finalist for Midway Journal’s “Monstrosities of the Midway,” and will be published in the October issue of Midway Journal. He has also recently become the Food Editor for the Weekly Alibi.

Mike Smith’s essay “Some Thoughts on LeeAnne” has been accepted for publication in the next issue of The Florida Review. Also, his essay “Start Breaking My Heart” has been accepted by the online journal Eunoia Review.

Nora Hickey’s poem “First Crush: Jane Austen” is forthcoming in the winter issue of Court Green.

Daniel Berger’s poem “Aliens in the Backyard” is forthcoming in the journal NewBorder Anthology: Criticism and Creation from the U.S./Mexico Border (newborder.org).

Alumni News:

Jennifer Simpson (JenniferSimpsonWriter.com)’s accomplishments include:

Publications:
“Mother’s Day Shouldn’t Be About Grief” essay on 40PlusWoman.com (May 12, 2012)
“intervals” poem published in A Year in Ink, Vol. 5 an anthology (2012)
“Mom’s Chicken Divan” essay on StyleSubstanceSoul.com (May 2011)
“Giving Voice to Your Prose” article in LP Creative Humans magazine (March 2010)
“Our House is Like Switzerland” short story published Bartelby Snopes (January 2010)

Readings:
Ongoing/Monthly: Host, Duke City DimeStories Monthly Open Mic for prose, Albuquerque, NM since February 2010
2012 April - L.A. Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA (DimeStories Showcase)
2011 September - Church of Beethoven, Albuquerque, NM
2011 February - DimeStories Anniversary Showcase, Albuquerque, NM
2010 December - The Encyclopedia Show (all about Bears), Albuquerque, NM
2010 April - L.A. Times Book Festival, Los Angeles, CA (DimeStories Showcase)

Awards:
2011 A Room Of Her Own Foundation Retreat Participant (partially funded and served as small group workshop leader)
2009 American Welding Society Image of Welding Award (for writing about women welders at: http://www.arc-zone.com/blog/carmenelectrode/category/new-rosies/)

Projects/Community Service/Activities:
- Director, DimeStories International (http://dimestories.org/)
- Founder, The I Write Because Project, Inspired by a writing prompt from Seattle writer Priscilla Long at the Taos Summer Writers Conference, she started this website, a collaborate creative writing project: http://theiwritebecauseproject.wordpress.com/about/
Consider this an open invitation to all UNMers to submit, and spread the word: She’s actively seeking a diversity of voices.
- Judge, New Mexico Press Women Zia Book Award for Non Fiction (2012)
- Bereavement Group Facilitator, Children’s Grief Center of Albuquerque (2009 to present)
- Board Member, University Heights Neighborhood Association (2010 to present)

Opioid Addiction Guidelines Edited by James Burbank

Professional Writing lecturer, writer, and technical editor James Burbank has just completed work on New Mexico Treatment Guidelines for Medical Providers Who Treat Opioid Addiction Using Buprenorphine. In collaboration with six New Mexico physicians, two nurses, and members of the Heroin Awareness Committee, Burbank served as project management editor in developing, designing, editing, and publishing the first guidelines for innovative opioid addiction treatment in the United States. Sponsored by the state Dept. of Health, the book-length guidelines were just published and will be distributed free to qualified New Mexico physicians during training sessions and to inform doctors of the treatment, policy, and clinical procedures required to conduct medication assisted treatment (MAT) of opioid addictions. Burbank also edited an electronic version of the guidelines that will appear on a special website dedicated to opioid addiction treatment. Burbank also was project editor of Managing Co-occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care: A Guide for the Busy Primary Care Provider by Florian Birkmayer, M.D. published by the UNM Center for Rural and Community Behavioral Health in 2010.

Jason Bengtson publications and presentations

Jason Bengtson (MLIS, AHIP), currently studying Literature at the Master's level at UNM, has quite a few recent publications and presentations, revealing his very accomplished other hat, as Emerging Technologies/ R&D Librarian at UNM in the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.

publications:
* Eldredge, Jonathan, Sarah Morley, Ingrid Hendrix, Richard Carr, and Jason Bengtson. "Library and Informatics Skills Competencies Statements from Major Health Professional Associations" Medical Reference Services Quarterly 31.1 (2012) : 34-44. Print.

* Bengtson, Jason. "Preparing for the Age of the Digital Palimpsest." Library Hi Tech 30.3 (2012). Print.

* Bengtson, Jason. "The Art of Redirection: One Library's Experiences and Statistical Results from the Deployment of Mobile Redirect Script." Journal of Hospital Librarianship 12.3 (2012). Print

accepted:

* Bengtson, Jason. "Scaling Into the Future with Smart Links." Journal of Hospital Librarianship 12.4 (2012). Pre-publication.

* Bengtson, Jason. "Imagining Emergent Metadata, Realizing the Emergent Web." Journal of Library Metadata (2012). Pre-publication.

presentations:
* "Preparing for the Age of the Digital Palimpsest." Paper presented at the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Conference entitled "Info on the Geux". 14-19 October 2011, Baton Rouge Capitol Center Hotel.

* "The Evolution of the Web: from Static to Semantic in Three Big Steps." Virtual Lunch presented to the Rio Grande Chapter of the Special Library Association. 22 February 2012.

* "Imagining Emergent Metadata, Realizing the Emergent Web." Paper presented at the Library Technology Conference. 14-15 March 2012, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.

* "The Art of Redirection: Putting Mobile Devices Where You Want Them." Instructional session at the Library Technology Conference. 14-15 March 2012, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.

* "The Evolution of the Web: from Static to Semantic in Three Big Steps." Webcast presented to the North Carolina Chapter of the Special Library Association. 10 July 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/).

Of Interest: Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

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: