English Department Colloquium, Wednesday, March 12 at noon

For our first English Department Colloquium presentation of the semester, Belinda Wallace will present "'It is only she that brings them to any life:' Mapping a Meta-Colonial Feminist Space in Dionne Brand's Ossuaries." 

 

Wednesday March 12 at noon, SUB Fiesta A.

Erin Murrah-Mandril speaks on "Ghosts in the Archive: Recovering the Work of Adina De Zavala" Wednesday, Nov. 13, 12:00 noon

The Feminist Research Institute is proud to host the FRI Research Lecture Series:

"Ghosts in the Archive: Recovering the Work of Adina De Zavala"
Erin Murrah-Mandril, Department of English 

Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 – 1:00 
SUB Luminaria 

http://femresin.unm.edu/events/2013/11/murrah-mandril/

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at femresin@unm.edu or visit us on the web at http://femresin.unm.edu.

Aeron Hunt's talk, “The Heir Apparent: Gender and the Transmission of Talent in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester,” Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 12:00 noon

UNM Department of English Language & Literature

invites you to the Fall 2013 Colloquium Series

A talk by

Aeron Hunt

Assistant Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies

“The Heir Apparent: Gender and the Transmission of Talent in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester”

Dr. Hunt’s EDC talk is drawn from her forthcoming book Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture, which explores the intersections of literature, economics, and commerce in Victorian Britain by turning attention to the embodied, interpersonal, and socially embedded interactions of everyday economic life. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Personal Business examines how the personal and its textual and performative form, character, represent a crucial mode of power within the Victorian economy. By placing representations of the personal in business by novelists such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant alongside nonliterary genres, Personal Business provides new ways to understand the history of the Victorian novel and its implication in the turbulent experience of nineteenth-century capitalism. In so doing, Personal Business presents a case for the continued value of interdisciplinary scholarship as a means to generate fresh insights in literary, historical, and cultural studies alike. This presentation will examine Margaret Oliphant’s novel Hester (1883) in light of the turn to scientific language to construct the personal in business, arguing that Oliphant’s attention to gender as she maps the vagaries of “hereditary talent” challenges readers to reevaluate contemporary narratives of business character.

  

Please join us 

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

12:00 p.m. 

English Department Lounge

Humanities Building, Second Floor

Julie Williams talks on "The Changing Landscape of a Peripatetic Philosopher: Health and Home in the Life of Mary MacLane" Monday, Nov. 4, at 12:00 noon

The Feminist Research Institute is proud to host the FRI Research Lecture Series:





"The Changing Landscape of a Peripatetic Philosopher: Health and Home in the Life of Mary MacLane"

Julie Williams, Department of English Language and Literature

Monday, November 4, 2013 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM

SUB Luminaria

http://femresin.unm.edu/events/2013/11/williams/

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at femresin@unm.edu or visit us on the web at http://femresin.unm.edu.

Annarose Fitzgerald presents her paper "Gentle Jesus in the Sauce Tureen," Thursday, October 3

This is just a reminder that Annarose Fitzgerald will be presenting her paper, "'Gentle Jesus in the Sauce Tureen': Mina Loy and the Necessity of the Material" Thursday, October 3, in the Student Union Building, Luminaria room, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm.
Please join us for discussion, questions, and light refreshment!

Faculty December 2012 and January 2013 Appearances

December 2012

Greg Martin. Interview and Appearance about Stories for Boys, KASA Fox’s New Mexico Style hosted by Nikki Stanzione. Dec 21.

Greg Martin. Book signing for Stories for Boys. Barnes and Noble, Coronado Center, Albuquerque, NM. Dec 22.

January 2013

Modern Language Association, Boston, Massachusetts, Jan 3-6.

   Jesse Alemán. “Bodies that Don’t Matter: Tracing Race in the US Latino/a Nineteenth Century.”

   Feroza Jussawalla. "Seaming Sisterhood: South Asian Muslim Women in London.”

   Feroza Jussawalla. "Inhospitable Homes: Diasporic Realism in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Monica Ali's Brick Lane.”

   Feroza Jussawalla. Session Organizer: Crossing Borders, Finding Homes; Fragmented Lives, Hybridity, and the Politics of Identity in South Asian Muslim Women's Writing

Greg Martin. A Conversation about Stories for Boys. Utah Public Radio: Access Utah hosted by Tom Williams. Jan 3.

The 21st annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference will be held April 4-6 in Albuquerque

The English Department is pleased to announce that the 21st annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference will be held April 4-6, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency downtown.

UNM faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend panel sessions of their choosing free of charge, and the plenary panel and keynotes are open to the public. Anyone wishing to take part in the conference receptions should register at www.2013bwwc.com, where a complete program of events may also be found.

Hildegard of Bingen Celebration (March 25, 6:30, SUB Ballroom B)

The Medieval Studies Student Association in partnership with the Feminist Research Institute invites you to attend a night of celebration for the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179).

This remarkable woman produced numerous theological and visionary works, as well as medical treatises and musical compositions. Hildegard's life and works have seen an increase in both academic and popular attention as indicated by recent published biographies, recordings of her music, and the 2011 film Vision. All events during this program are free and open to the public. The program is as follows:

Monday, March 25th (SUB Ballroom B)

6:30 PM
Wardene Crowley, "The Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen: Cosmic Tree, Cosmic Healing, and Cosmic Symphony"
Anita Obermeier, "Hildegard of Bingen's Gemstone Medicine"

7:30 PM
Reception

8:00 PM
Cantores Festivi, Music of Hildegard and Contemporaries



Tuesday, March 26th (Humanities 108)

7:00 PM
Movie Presentation - Vision: From the Life of Hildegard of Bingen (2011)
Limited Seating, Please RSVP to mssa@unm.edu
Please join us for an evening of discussion, music, and reflection.

Ruth Salvaggio Lecture: Trash, Old Women, Angels, Poems: Promising Figures for Disaster Poetics

Dr. Ruth Salvaggio will give a talk titled "Trash, Old Women, Angels, Poems: Promising Figures for Disaster Poetics" on Tuesday, March 5th at 12:30pm in SUB Acoma A&B.

Ruth Salvaggio is the author of several books on poetry and feminist studies, most recently Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the 9th Ward. A native of the New Orleans 9th Ward, she has written on the imperatives of poetry in times of disaster—before, within, and beyond Katrina. In this talk, Professor Salvaggio ponders the fate and functions of some unanticipated yet promising poetic figures who continue to arise at scenes of disaster in our increasingly trashed environments.

Professor Salvaggio taught for over a decade in the American Studies Department here at UNM, and she is currently Professor of English and American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The talk is free and open to public, and her recent book will be available for purchase.

Karen Roybal lecture: Archives of Dispossession: Uncovering Mexicana Memory through Testimonio

Visiting Professor Karen Roybal will be giving a talk,
Archives of Dispossession: Uncovering Mexicana Memory through Testimonio
                       2:00 PM January 25, 2013
                       SUB, 3rd Floor, Fiesta A room

In this talk, Karen Roybal will use Mexicanas’ literal and literary testimonios to challenge nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives that privilege the male voice and experience in land grant history as it relates to the making of the U.S. Southwest. She argues that these testimonios reveal an alternative archive that challenges traditional historical accounts that elide the importance of gender in this contested history.

Dr. Karen Roybal is a Visiting Research Scholar in The Center for Regional Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UNM. Her research interests include Chicana/o, Latina/o Literature, Autobiographical Theory, Chicana/Latina Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Mexican-American History.

Tanaya Winder & Cassie Lopez have new Literary Journal

Good Afternoon ABQ English and Writer Fam!

I hope you are well with work, jobs, careers, school, writing, and your own individual happenings. As you may or may not have heard fellow MFA alum Casandra Lopez and I (Tanaya Winder) started a literary journal. As/Us: A Literary Space for Women of the World. I'm starting to outreach to folks to say I'm going to be blasting you on NYE and soon after to help spread the word about our literary journal when it drops like the ball in times square on NYE. I feel like I've been emailing people a lot for different things, fundraisers, etc and not to spamalot (oh wait that's a musical) so I'm just giving you a heads up and hoping you'll help direct people to our site http://asusjournal.org/ when it's up and running with our fabulous and fierce 21 female contributors. I'm hoping we can get 500 "likes" on our page www.facebook.com/As.Us.Journal by Jan 31st and a lot of traffic to our site once we go live NYE.

We have several contributors from the ABQ area and so Cassie and I will be working on trying to set up benefit/fundraising readings in the area during the spring when she is in the area for her residency. If any of you feel like you can help with that process or wouldn't mind reading and bringing your own individual followings as well, let me know. If you can't tell, I'm very excited for the first issue to come out. While we only have a handful of international contributors at this point, I'm hoping with your help with can share more voices of women from different areas in the world in due time.

Thanks for your support and for your own words and all you do. I know you each have your own writing, projects, organizations you support, etc., so if you or a place you support wants to be added to our Links page, let me know and Cassie and I will gladly support and promote you as well. http://asusjournal.org/links/

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!

Julie Williams giving a talk Friday: A 'Peripatetic Philosopher'

The Feminist Research Institute would like to remind you that our paper prize winner
Julie Williams will be giving a talk on
Friday, November 2nd in the SUB Cherry/Silver room from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The title of her talk is:
"A 'Peripatetic Philosopher': Sexual and Gender Mobility in the Work of Mary MacLane."

Kubasek Named the 2012-2013 CRS Hector Torres Fellow

Natalie Kubasek, a PhD candidate in English, with a concentration in American Literary Studies, has received the Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship.

Ms. Kubasek joined the English doctoral program in Fall 2010 after earning her MA in English from Simmons College, in Boston, MA, and her BA in English from Whittier College, in her hometown of Whittier, CA. In 2011-2012, she garnered a Latino/a Graduate and Professional Student Fellowship sponsored by UNM’s El Centro de la Raza and the Title V Resource Center.

Her research focuses on Chicano/a literature, and as a CRS Hector Torres fellow, she plans to conduct research for her dissertation on Chicana feminism and cultural production, with an emphasis on theater and performance art. The study of Chicana theater and performance art, Kubasek maintains, is a rich yet untapped area of Chicana cultural production, and the fellowship will help her locate and access primary documents and resources housed in archives across the southwest; she also plans to locate and interview authors, performers, and playwrights significant to the development of Chicana theater.

The Hector Torres Fellowship, a $10,000-$15,000 stipend, was inaugurated by the University of New Mexico’s Center for Regional Studies in memory of the English Department’s slain colleague, Dr. Hector Torres.

The Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship supports graduate research and scholarship in the English Department directly related to Dr. Hector Torres’ fields, as well as the mission of the Center for Regional Studies. Areas include Chicano/a literary and cultural studies; theory (i.e. Marxism, post-structuralism; deconstruction, psychoanalysis; and globalization); film studies; and scholarship related to the mission of the CRS, including history, archival research, literature and other interdisciplinary fields related to New Mexico, the US-Mexico borderlands, and the greater Southwest.

Belinda Wallace and Kadeshia Matthews share panel on Gender, Race, and Feminist Strategies in Africana Literature

Gender, Race, and Feminist Strategies in Africana Literature

Wednesday, October 17th,
2:00-4:00 p.m. in SUB Santa Ana A & B

A panel featuring
Natasha Howard, "Reinventing Blackness in the White Imagination: Examining Race/Gender Narratives in Popular Culture"

Belinda Wallace, "Unconventional Epistemologies: Post-colonial Femininities and Caribbean Culture"

Kadeshia Matthews, "Engendering African-American Identity: Violence and What Can't Be Said"

This event is co-sponsored by the Dean of Arts & Sciences, the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Chicana/ Hispano/ Mexicano Studies, the Center for the Southwest, the Department of History, the American Studies Department, and the Africana Studies Department.

Talk by Assistant Professor, Dr. Melina Vizcaino-Alemán on October 16th

The Feminist Research Institute welcomes you to attend a talk by Assistant Professor, Dr. Melina Vizcaino-Alemán, October 16th.

“Jovita González and Alice Corbin Henderson: Two Southwest Women Writers”

Tuesday, October 16th

12:30-1:30 p.m.

SUB Cherry/Silver

University of New Mexico
femresin@unm.edu

Julie Williams publishing and prizes!

Julie Williams' article, "Romancing the Desert: Landscape and Ideology in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop" was published in the fall 2011 edition of Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature.

Her paper, "Female Embodiment and the Western Landscape in the Story of Mary MacLane" won the Phyllis Bridges Award for Outstanding Paper in Biography at the SW/TX Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference in February.

Julie also won the Feminist Research Institute's Graduate Student Paper Prize for the 2011-2012 school year. She is a PhD student in American Literature at UNM English.

British Women Writers Conference at UNM in April 2013

Looking forward to April 2013!

The English department at the University of New Mexico is pleased to be hosting the 2013 British Women Writers Conference. The conference will be April 4-6, 2013 at the Hyatt in downtown Albuquerque, NM. The conference theme is “Customs,” and we look forward to a wide range of unique presentations on the topic. Please see:  http://2013bwwc.com/ for detailed description of the conference and topics.

The 2013 British Women Writers Conference will center around the theme of “Customs.” Customs are often thought of as the habits or social norms that dictate behavior, sometimes so rigidly that they appear to be laws. Conversely, though, “custom” can refer to a product or service tailored to the “customer’s” individual specifications, or the taxes or duties on imports/exports, the governmental department charged with implementing such fees, or the place in which all items entering a country from foreign parts are examined for contraband. Regardless of its particular connotation, “custom” denotes a sense of rigidity, restriction, or control; it is these forms of social, economic, and/or personal limitations that we wish to explore with this year’s conference. Prospective panelists are encouraged to think of “customs” broadly as the term might apply to British and Transatlantic women writers and their often-underrepresented contributions to literary studies.

Please send abstracts of 250 words for panel proposals by November 15, 2012 and for individual paper presentations by December 15, 2012 to BWWC2013@gmail.com.

It Begins With Me

The Second Annual Gray-Torres Interpersonal Violence Conference

It Begins With Me

Ever wonder how you can help a friend or family member deal with domestic violence? The 2nd annual Gray –Torres Interpersonal Violence Conference can help. Join us April 16th in SUB Ballroom B and…

 Enjoy free pizza and snacks!

 Hear nationally known speaker, Mike Dilbeck, discuss how you can be an every-day hero

 Learn how to act when you see an interaction between people that escalate or promote violence and how to deal with conflict in personal relationships

 Listen to poetry and fiction readings with local and nationally known authors

 Watch a free screening of “Telling Amy’s Story”, a powerful documentary, brought to you by Verizon Wireless.

 And much more!

Remember We Can’t Begin Without You!

Join us Monday April 16th

In SUB Ballroom B

From 9:45am-6:30pm

The Second Annual Gray-Torres Interpersonal Violence Conference

For more information email: Gail Houston at ghouston@unm.edu or Summer Little at salittle@unm.edu

Upcoming Lectures

Dr. Mary S. Hartman, Rutgers University, Emerita
“The State of Women’s Leadership: Storm Clouds and Silver Linings”
Friday, November 5th
2:00-3:00 pm
SUB, Cherry/Silver

Krista Comer, Rice University
“West & Postwest: Surfing Subcultures, Gender, Critical Regionalism”
Friday, November 12th
1:30 pm
Ortega 335