Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Emily Rapp joins UNM English as Russo Chair Professor
A former Fulbright scholar and graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and Still Point of the Turning World. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, and Salon, among other publications. She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, a James Michener Fellowship at the University of Texas-Austin, and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. A professor of creative writing and literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and a faculty member in the University of California-Riverside Low-Residency MFA Program, she joins UNM’s creative writing faculty as the Joseph M. Russo Visiting Professor in Creative Nonfiction.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
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
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
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Winners of the Lena Todd Awards In Creative Writing
Every fall term, instructors of UNM’s undergraduate creative writing workshops nominate stories, poems, and creative nonfiction essays written by their students for the Lena Todd Awards. This year the authors of the first place entries will receive $100, the second place entries $50, and all winners will be given the opportunity to read from their work at an upcoming Works-in-Progress reading at Winnings Coffee House (111 Harvard Dr. SE).
Fiction:
First Place: Quentin Chirdon, “The Flyover” (Instructor: Jack Trujillo)
About “The Flyover,” Judge Brenna Gomez had this to say: “The entry self-consciously explores a writer’s struggle with herself and her work as she watches another bitter writer she knows—and hasn’t spoken to in years—implode. The prose is sure and strong, the dialogue funny, painful, and very believable.”
Second Place: Lyndsey Broyles, “American Perspective Weekly Special Feature” (Instructor: Jill Dehnert)
“A newspaper pays tribute to their obituary writer by showcasing his best obituaries—one of an old friend, one of his wife, one of a woman he loved and killed in an accident, and finally himself. Reading this story was a bit like fitting the pieces of a puzzle together—at the end the reader fits together the smaller character sketches to create one larger sketch of the main character. The experimental nature and ambition of the piece is intriguing and successful,” writes Gomez.
Poetry:
First Place: Erin Pooley-Cooper, “Genesister” (Instructor: Diane Thiel)
Judge Reid Maruyama admired the line breaks and concrete, synesthetic imagery. “The poet,” he writes, “makes an utterly captivating statement about gender roles with regards to the Biblical tradition.”
Second Place: Tiffini Mungia, “Of the Sun and Moon: a haiku series” (Instructor Diane Thiel)
“The imagery, rhythm, and form were perfectly suited to the content,” writes Maruyama.
Creative Nonfiction:
First Place: Molly Cudia, “The Bat” (Instructor: Ben Dolan)
“The best memoirs are often disguised by voice,” writes Judge Annie Olson. “The narrator in “The Bat” is tender, honest, and wise beyond her years. She is impressively strong and vulnerable at the same time. The essay relies on the narrator’s keen eye for detail. A meticulous description of the house she grew up in serves as the foundation for an essay about how one’s sense of home, family and belonging is irreparably altered by divorce. The narrator in “The Bat could easily judge her family and upbringing, but refuses to do so, and this is a big factor in why she is so endearing to readers.”
Second Place: Catherine A. Hubka, “Ghost Towns” (Instructor: Marisa Clark)
“Addressing grief and loss in writing is thematically challenging. The narrator in “Ghost Towns” is poignantly honest and forthcoming with readers about the death of her son. The essay is narrated with humor, poise and candor. There’s momentum to this story. From page one, readers are compelled to journey with the narrator, learn from her mistakes and insights, hurt for her loss, and relate to her humanity.”
Many thanks to this year’s judges! Congratulations to the writers and their mentors!
Fiction:
First Place: Quentin Chirdon, “The Flyover” (Instructor: Jack Trujillo)
About “The Flyover,” Judge Brenna Gomez had this to say: “The entry self-consciously explores a writer’s struggle with herself and her work as she watches another bitter writer she knows—and hasn’t spoken to in years—implode. The prose is sure and strong, the dialogue funny, painful, and very believable.”
Second Place: Lyndsey Broyles, “American Perspective Weekly Special Feature” (Instructor: Jill Dehnert)
“A newspaper pays tribute to their obituary writer by showcasing his best obituaries—one of an old friend, one of his wife, one of a woman he loved and killed in an accident, and finally himself. Reading this story was a bit like fitting the pieces of a puzzle together—at the end the reader fits together the smaller character sketches to create one larger sketch of the main character. The experimental nature and ambition of the piece is intriguing and successful,” writes Gomez.
Poetry:
First Place: Erin Pooley-Cooper, “Genesister” (Instructor: Diane Thiel)
Judge Reid Maruyama admired the line breaks and concrete, synesthetic imagery. “The poet,” he writes, “makes an utterly captivating statement about gender roles with regards to the Biblical tradition.”
Second Place: Tiffini Mungia, “Of the Sun and Moon: a haiku series” (Instructor Diane Thiel)
“The imagery, rhythm, and form were perfectly suited to the content,” writes Maruyama.
Creative Nonfiction:
First Place: Molly Cudia, “The Bat” (Instructor: Ben Dolan)
“The best memoirs are often disguised by voice,” writes Judge Annie Olson. “The narrator in “The Bat” is tender, honest, and wise beyond her years. She is impressively strong and vulnerable at the same time. The essay relies on the narrator’s keen eye for detail. A meticulous description of the house she grew up in serves as the foundation for an essay about how one’s sense of home, family and belonging is irreparably altered by divorce. The narrator in “The Bat could easily judge her family and upbringing, but refuses to do so, and this is a big factor in why she is so endearing to readers.”
Second Place: Catherine A. Hubka, “Ghost Towns” (Instructor: Marisa Clark)
“Addressing grief and loss in writing is thematically challenging. The narrator in “Ghost Towns” is poignantly honest and forthcoming with readers about the death of her son. The essay is narrated with humor, poise and candor. There’s momentum to this story. From page one, readers are compelled to journey with the narrator, learn from her mistakes and insights, hurt for her loss, and relate to her humanity.”
Many thanks to this year’s judges! Congratulations to the writers and their mentors!
Monday, November 4, 2013
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.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for May 2013
48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 9-12, 2013.
Helen Damico. “Shade and Substance: Emma of Normandy in Eleventh-Century Documents.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord. “The Rhythmic Identity of Ælfric and Winchester.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord organized “The Benedictine Reform in Anglo-Saxon England.”
Anita Obermeier organized of four TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages:
“Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”
“Teaching Medieval Jews: A Roundtable”
“Teaching the Medieval Survey”
“Teaching the Black Death”
Nicholas Schwartz. “Wulfstan and the Old English Boethius: A (Partial) Reconsideration of the Textual Transmission of the ‘Three Orders’ in Anglo-Saxon England.” UNM Institute for Medieval Studies Graduate Student Prize Winner.
Nicholas Schwartz. Panelist in “Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Lawrence, KS. May 28-June1, 2013.
Julie Williams. “This Land Belongs to All of Us: Disabilities Access and the Need for Nature.”
Greg Martin: Bosque Preparatory School: Commencement Address, May 24, 2013
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Ballard Branch. Seattle, WA. May 1, 2013.
Feature and Interview. Stories for Boys. KING5 TV Morning News Hour. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Interview. Stories for Boys. NPR: KUOW’s Weekday Interview with Marcie Sillman. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. North Seattle Community College. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Capitol Hill Branch. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Columbia Branch Seattle, WA. May 3, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Greenwood Branch. Seattle, WA. May 4, 2013.
“Stories for Boys: Book-It Repertory Theatre Staged Readings.” Seattle Reads. Seattle, WA. May 4, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Southwest Branch. Seattle, WA. May 5, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Northeast Branch. Seattle, WA. May 5, 2013.
Interview. Stories for Boys. PBS: Well Read. Seattle, WA. May 6, 2013.
Helen Damico. “Shade and Substance: Emma of Normandy in Eleventh-Century Documents.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord. “The Rhythmic Identity of Ælfric and Winchester.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord organized “The Benedictine Reform in Anglo-Saxon England.”
Anita Obermeier organized of four TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages:
“Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”
“Teaching Medieval Jews: A Roundtable”
“Teaching the Medieval Survey”
“Teaching the Black Death”
Nicholas Schwartz. “Wulfstan and the Old English Boethius: A (Partial) Reconsideration of the Textual Transmission of the ‘Three Orders’ in Anglo-Saxon England.” UNM Institute for Medieval Studies Graduate Student Prize Winner.
Nicholas Schwartz. Panelist in “Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Lawrence, KS. May 28-June1, 2013.
Julie Williams. “This Land Belongs to All of Us: Disabilities Access and the Need for Nature.”
Greg Martin: Bosque Preparatory School: Commencement Address, May 24, 2013
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Ballard Branch. Seattle, WA. May 1, 2013.
Feature and Interview. Stories for Boys. KING5 TV Morning News Hour. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Interview. Stories for Boys. NPR: KUOW’s Weekday Interview with Marcie Sillman. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. North Seattle Community College. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Capitol Hill Branch. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Columbia Branch Seattle, WA. May 3, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Greenwood Branch. Seattle, WA. May 4, 2013.
“Stories for Boys: Book-It Repertory Theatre Staged Readings.” Seattle Reads. Seattle, WA. May 4, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Southwest Branch. Seattle, WA. May 5, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Northeast Branch. Seattle, WA. May 5, 2013.
Interview. Stories for Boys. PBS: Well Read. Seattle, WA. May 6, 2013.
Greg Martin speaks on Memory, Emulation and Influence and the Art of Memoir on October 8 in Hum. 324
UNM English Department
invites you to our 2nd Colloquium of the Fall
Gregory Martin
Associate Professor
UNM Department of English Language & Literature
Director, BA/MD Program
"Memory, Emulation and Influence and the Art of Memoir"
Memory is not a story, but a blur out of the corner of the mind’s eye. To make a story out of memory requires amplification, emphasis, speculation. Credibility problems are part of the enterprise, and many memoirists take on memory, itself, as one of their thematic preoccupations--its strange workings and elusiveness and unreliability. In his talk and reading, Professor Martin will discuss some memoirists he admires (Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff, Vladimir Nabokov, William Maxwell, WG Sebald) and their influence on his recent memoir STORIES FOR BOYS.
Please Join Us
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
12:30 p.m.
English Department Library
Humanities Building, Room 324
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for April 2013
British Women’s Writers Conference. Albuquerque, NM. April 4-6, 2013.
Erin Woltkamp. “The Diaries of Anne Lister: Authenticating the Individual Through Epistolary.”
Carolyn Woodward. “Jenny Collier and Anna Maria Garthwaite: Imagining The Cry as a Beautiful Silk Gown.”
Carolyn Woodward. Keynote Introduction for Devoney Looser.
American Comparative Literature Association. University of Toronto. April 4-7, 2013.
Justin Brock. “The Critical Voices from Joyous Gard: The Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur.”
Eaton/Science Fiction Researchers Association of America Conference. Riverside, CA. April 11-14, 2013.
Daoine Bachran. “Beyond Black and White: North American Ethnic Science Fictions.”
Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop. Albuquerque, NM. April 12-13, 2013.
Laura Perlichek. “It's a Man-Eat-Man World: The Postcolonial Implication of Cannibalism in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho”
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Denver, CO. April 12-13, 2013.
Lisa Myers. “Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Representation of a Pagan Landscape.”
J. V. Jeffery, D. Hoover, and M. Han. “Lexical Variation in Highly and Poorly Rated US Secondary Students’ Writing: Implications for the Common Core Writing Standards.”
Greg Martin. “Publishing Your Work and the Writing Process,” UNM School of Medicine: Medical Education Scholars Group. Albuquerque, NM. April 11, 2013.
Greg Martin. Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Depaul University. Chicago, IL. April 25, 2013.
Erin Woltkamp. “The Diaries of Anne Lister: Authenticating the Individual Through Epistolary.”
Carolyn Woodward. “Jenny Collier and Anna Maria Garthwaite: Imagining The Cry as a Beautiful Silk Gown.”
Carolyn Woodward. Keynote Introduction for Devoney Looser.
American Comparative Literature Association. University of Toronto. April 4-7, 2013.
Justin Brock. “The Critical Voices from Joyous Gard: The Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur.”
Eaton/Science Fiction Researchers Association of America Conference. Riverside, CA. April 11-14, 2013.
Daoine Bachran. “Beyond Black and White: North American Ethnic Science Fictions.”
Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop. Albuquerque, NM. April 12-13, 2013.
Laura Perlichek. “It's a Man-Eat-Man World: The Postcolonial Implication of Cannibalism in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho”
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Denver, CO. April 12-13, 2013.
Lisa Myers. “Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Representation of a Pagan Landscape.”
34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University in
Plymouth, NH, April 19-20, 2013.
Nicholas Schwartz, "Wulfstan and the Three Orders in Anglo-Saxon
England."
American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. April 27-May 1, 2013.J. V. Jeffery, D. Hoover, and M. Han. “Lexical Variation in Highly and Poorly Rated US Secondary Students’ Writing: Implications for the Common Core Writing Standards.”
Greg Martin. “Publishing Your Work and the Writing Process,” UNM School of Medicine: Medical Education Scholars Group. Albuquerque, NM. April 11, 2013.
Greg Martin. Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Depaul University. Chicago, IL. April 25, 2013.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Faculty and Graduate Student February 2013 Appearances
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin, TX. Feb. 21-23, 2013.
Calinda Shely. “An Ailing Body Politic: Gouty Gentlemen as Cultural Metaphor in Sarah Fielding’s The Countess of Dellwyn and Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random.”
Carolyn Woodward “Jenny and the Silk Weavers.”
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Albuquerque. Feb. 13-16, 2013.
Daoine Bachran. “From Recovery to Discovery: American Ethnic Science Fiction and (Re)inventing the Future.”
Vincent Basso. “The Devil, My Friend: Milton’s Satan as Anti-hero in Modern Comics.”
Ann D’Orazio. “Ancient Warriors, Insular Hands, and Monster Fights.”
Nichole Neff Gauntt. “Shark Representation in Nineteenth-Century Texts: into the Belly of the Beast.”
Scarlett Higgins. Session Chair. Poetry and Poetics (Critical)
Scarlett Higgins. “The Blaze and the Tyger: Vatic Poetry and Apocalyptic History in George Oppen’s Late Work.”
Matt Hofer. “‘Single / Notes / Sung’: Larry Eigner's Equilibria at the Margins.”
Monica Kowal. “Beyond the Hypothetical: Putting the “Real” in Real-World Application with Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Writing.”
Joe Serio. “Is What You See What You Get? Flip Wilson and the Civil Rights Movement.”
Stephanie Spong. “Should There Arise Any Objection to Candidness”: The Censor and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Globalized Body.”
Diane Thiel. Session Chair. Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction)
Diane Thiel. “Poetry and Translation.”
Sharon Warner. “Not Too Long, Not Too Short, but Just Right: The Novella Workshop.”
Julie Williams. “Discourses of Hygiene and Homemaking in “Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home.”
Greg Martin:
Interview and podcast. Late Night Library, Portland, OR. Feb 11, 2013.
Reading from Stories for Boys. Portland State University, Portland, OR.12 Feb 12, 2013.
Reading from Stories for Boys. Barnes & Noble, Bend, OR. Feb 8, 2013.
Carmen Nocentelli. “Empires of Love: Race, Sexuality, and the European-Asian Encounter.” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM. Feb 20, 2013.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Greg Martin's Stories for Boys was chosen for SEATTLE READS
Greg Martin's latest book, Stories for Boys (Hawthorne Books, 2012) was chosen for SEATTLE READS and he's going to be busy in Seattle that whole time, May 1-5. http://www.spl.org/audiences/adults/seattle-reads. Stories for Boys is The Seattle Public Library's Washington Center for the Book's 2013 featured work.
Stories for Boys was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Greg Martin's first book Mountain City won the 2001 Washington State Book Award. He lived in Seattle and taught at Seattle University and North Seattle Community College. He currently teaches creative writing at UNM.
Also, please see: Seattle Times — a feature and interview about Stories for Boys and Seattle Reads:
http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2020882341_litlife29xml.html?prmid=4939
Stories for Boys was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Greg Martin's first book Mountain City won the 2001 Washington State Book Award. He lived in Seattle and taught at Seattle University and North Seattle Community College. He currently teaches creative writing at UNM.
Also, please see: Seattle Times — a feature and interview about Stories for Boys and Seattle Reads:
http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2020882341_litlife29xml.html?prmid=4939
Monday, April 8, 2013
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.
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.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Faculty and Graduate Student November 2012 Appearances
Jesse Alemán. “Rebel: The Screening of Loreta Janeta Velazquez.” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nov 15-18.
Jesse Alemán. “Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Horrifying Forms of Chicano/a Identity in Film.” El Centro de la Raza Brown Bag Series, University of New Mexico. November.
Marissa Greenberg. “Neuvomexicano Shakespeare: The Case of The Merchant of Santa Fe.” American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, TN. November 1-4.
Natalie Kubasek. “Teatro on the Border: Re-Figuring Teatro Campesino as Transnational Avant-Garde.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati OH. November 8-11.
Greg Martin. Readings from Stories for Boys. University of New Mexico. November 8.
Kathleen Washburn. “Lili’uokalani's Indigenous Modernity.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Research Triangle Park, NM. November 11.
Julie Williams. “Access for All? The New Nature Writing of Lucia Perillo,” Western Literature Association, Lubbock TX. November 7-10.
Jesse Alemán. “Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Horrifying Forms of Chicano/a Identity in Film.” El Centro de la Raza Brown Bag Series, University of New Mexico. November.
Marissa Greenberg. “Neuvomexicano Shakespeare: The Case of The Merchant of Santa Fe.” American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, TN. November 1-4.
Natalie Kubasek. “Teatro on the Border: Re-Figuring Teatro Campesino as Transnational Avant-Garde.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati OH. November 8-11.
Greg Martin. Readings from Stories for Boys. University of New Mexico. November 8.
Kathleen Washburn. “Lili’uokalani's Indigenous Modernity.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Research Triangle Park, NM. November 11.
Julie Williams. “Access for All? The New Nature Writing of Lucia Perillo,” Western Literature Association, Lubbock TX. November 7-10.
Monday, January 28, 2013
October Blog
Our Graduate students and Faculty have been very busy this past Autumn. Please see below for a brief list of their accomplishments.
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boulder, CO. October 11-13
Katherine Alexander. Session Chair, The Brontë Sisters
Katherine Alexander. “Catherine Earnshaw's Unexpected Gift? Love, Possession, and Dispossession on the Moors.”
Annarose Fitzgerald. “Gentle Jesus and the Sauce Tureen: Naming the Divine in Mina Loy’s ‘Ova’ Poems.”
Marcella Garvey. “Marriage and the Crisis of Faith in Emily Brontë’s WutheringHeights.”
Feroza Framji Jussawalla. Session Chair, Comparative and Non-Western Critical Approaches to Non-European Literatures
Doaa Abdel Hamid Omran Mohamed. “Occidentalism as Ambivalence: A Modern Understanding of Islam.”
Erin Woltkamp. “Subversive Gestures: Hands as Tools for Rebellion in Anne Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Julie Williams. “Home Sweet (Dirty) Home: Discourses of Disease in Native American Boarding School Literature.”
Ying Xu. “A Chinese Serpent Prince or a Chinese Empress: Transculturation and Wong Chin Foo's Reconstruction of Chinese Women in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”
Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV. October 18-2
Matt Hofer. Panel Organizer, The New American Poetry and the West.
Matt Hofer. “ ‘Few / People are lost as I am’: Ed Dorn in the Great Basin-Plateau.” This work will also appear in his forthcoming expanded edition of Ed Dorn and Leroy Lucas's The Shoshoneans (UNM Press, fall 2013).
Matt Hofer. Panel Chair, Learning from Detroit.
Daniel Worden. Organizer of and Participant on the “Postmodern/Postwar: After the New Modernist Studies” Roundtable.
Greg Martin
Panel Discussion, The Lay of the Land: Memoir and Landscape; Readings from Stories for Boys. Montana Festival of the Book Missoula, MT. October 5.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Powell’s Books, Portland OR. October 11.
Readings from Stories for Boys with Kambri Crews; Workshop, Breaking the Conventions of Memoir: the Art of Speculation; Panel, One Big Happy Queer Family. Wordstock Book Festival, Portland, OR. October 13-14.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Village Books, Bellingham, WA. October 15.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA. October 16.
Readings from Stories for Boys in conjunction with UMOCA’s exhibit Battleground States. Utah Book Festival, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. October 17.
Jason Bengtson. “Digital Scavenger Hunt” and “Smart Links” Tech Expos, and “Are We Poised For a Digital Biblioclasm?” Round Table. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Conference, Lubbock, TX. October 13-17.
Justin Falk-Gee. “Deconstructing Differences in the Classroom.” The TYCA Southwest Conference, Las Cruces, NM. October 25-27.
Carmen Nocentelli. panel presentation, CL/CS Roundtable discussion, “What is Desire?” University of New Mexico. October 25.
Joe Serio. “Is What We See What We Get? Flip Wilson and the Civil Rights Movement.” 2nd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference: Mic Check: Resistance and Revolution, New York. October 26.
Friday, January 18, 2013
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.
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.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Two UNM English Alumna Reunite in Washington, DC
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!
Friday, October 12, 2012
Recent Faculty and Graduate student conferences and talks
We have been busy . . . late spring and summer 2012 conference and public talks activities by our faculty and graduate students.
April 2012
Lisa Myers was elected to the Executive Council of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.
33rd Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Nick Schwartz, "Alfred the Great and Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: Towards a Connection"
May 2012
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI:
Anita Obermeier, “The Queering of Merlin in Shakespeare and Rowley’s Birth of Merlin”
Nicholas Schwartz, Session Chair: Teaching Beowulf in the High School Classroom
American Literature Association, San Francisco:
Diana Noreen Rivera, “Recovering Memorias Transfronterizas: Federico Ronstandt’s Borderman and the Remapping of Southern Arizona”
Julie Williams, “Romancing the Desert: Landscape and Ideology in Willa Cather’s ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop.’”
Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia:
Katherine M. Alexander, “Is the Rhetoric of Obamocracy Off Key?”
Dan Cryer, “‘A better chronometer': Time, Ethos & Ethics in Aldo Leopold's 'Smoky Gold’”
Paul Formisano, “Watershed Rhetorics: Resistance and Restoration in the Colorado River Basin”
Rachel Gearhart, “Constructing the Enemy: The Rhetorical Moves of Roosevelt’s ‘Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation’”
Melissa Huffman, “Capitalizing on Ambivalence: Enslavement Tropes in Nineteenth Century America Social Reform Discourses”
Michelle Hall Kells, “The ‘Chamizal Effect:’ Solastalgia and the Rhetoric of Place on the US/Mexico Border”
Deborah S. Paczynski, “Barack Obama’s Rhetorical Regression Toward the Future: The Tyranny of Tyrannizing Images”
Susan Romano, “Emergent and Divergent Latin American Historical Rhetoric: Meeting Reader Expectations for Coverage”
June 2012
Peter White taught in Austria in June for the AAECA Summer Program in which Austrian public school teachers learned about American education, language and culture in an intensive English only program. White taught the American Short Story and played the fiddle for dances at night
In June and July, White studied advanced violin making in Krakow Poland with his former teacher from 1980, Jan Pawlikowski
July 2012
Jason Bengtson, “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.
Greg Martin, Reading from Stories for Boys, Taos Summer Writers Conference and
Reading from Stories for Boys, SOMOS Reading Series, Harwood Art Gallery, Taos, NM
Peter White taught a course in American English to computer scientists in Vinnitsa, Ukraine
National Consortium of Writing Across Communities Summit, Santa Fe.
Dan Cryer, “Negotiating Scarcity: Starting a WAC Program on Social Capital”
Anna V. Knutson, “Digital Bridges: Multimodal Connections Across Communities”
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK
Colleen Dunn, “Becoming Her Own Accuser: The Art of Courtly Love as a Commentary on Eleanor of Aquitaine”
Lisa Myers, “‘We be yemen of this foreste, under the grene wod tre’: Subversion in the Middle English Ballads of Robin Hood”
Anita Obermeier, “Sent Away, Sainted, or Self-Sainted: the Childless Queens Theutberga, Cunigunde, and Edith”
Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM
Tiffany Bourelle, Cristyn Elder, and Chuck Paine served on the conference program committee.
Genesea Carter, “Cross-Institutional Collaborations: Peer Writing Groups and Writing Workshops”
Dan Cryer and Lindsey Ives, “Writing and Teaching Online—How Do We Assess and Maintain this Ever-Changing Environment?”
Beth Davila, “Multiple Perspectives on Directed Self-Placement in the Academy”
Cristyn Elder and Chuck Paine, “Broadening the Habits of Mind for WPAs and Students”
Annarose Fitzgerald, “I Didn’t Know This Was a Writing Class!: Fostering Connections Between Composition and Literature Approaches”
Christine Garcia, Danny Bogert, Natasha Jones, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, “Why Mentorship Matters to Us: A Discussion of the Effects of (Under)Representation of Faculty of Color on Junior WPAs”
Lindsey Ives and Todd Ruecker, “Racism and Native Speakerism in the Writing Classroom”
Michelle Kells and Brian Hendrickson, “Accidental Tourists on the ‘Mother Road’: Route 66 and Other Metaphors for Navigating the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing”
Chuck Paine, “Delbanco’s Plea: What Does a Defense of Liberal Arts Have to Do with Writing Programs?” and “A New Stage for the NSSE Writing Questions – CWPA’s Continued Involvement”
Todd Ruecker, “Preparing Instructors and TAs to Serve the Emerging Majority”
Leah Snyder and Lindsey Ives, “A Roundtable of Ejournal Editors: Digital Spaces that Support and Expand Writing Program Goals”
Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Writing SIG, Porto, Portugal
Jill V. Jeffery, & Polleck, J. N. “Adolescent authorial identity in a student-initiated writing group: Examining intersections between school-based and voluntary writing”
Wilcox, K., & Jeffery, J. V. “Authorial identity and agency in adolescent English language learners’ stances toward content-area writing”
David K Dunaway, Readings, A Route 66 Companion (University of Texas Press, 2012): Bookworks, Albuquerque; Collected Works, Santa Fe; Booksmith, San Francisco
Taught a workshop: “Broadcasting and Publishing Oral History,” for faculty and graduate students at the University of Sao Paulo
August 2012
Peter White won second place in old time fiddle at the Santa Fe Fiddle and Banjo Contest
April 2012
Lisa Myers was elected to the Executive Council of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.
33rd Plymouth State Medieval and Renaissance Forum
Nick Schwartz, "Alfred the Great and Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: Towards a Connection"
May 2012
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI:
Anita Obermeier, “The Queering of Merlin in Shakespeare and Rowley’s Birth of Merlin”
Nicholas Schwartz, Session Chair: Teaching Beowulf in the High School Classroom
American Literature Association, San Francisco:
Diana Noreen Rivera, “Recovering Memorias Transfronterizas: Federico Ronstandt’s Borderman and the Remapping of Southern Arizona”
Julie Williams, “Romancing the Desert: Landscape and Ideology in Willa Cather’s ‘Death Comes for the Archbishop.’”
Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia:
Katherine M. Alexander, “Is the Rhetoric of Obamocracy Off Key?”
Dan Cryer, “‘A better chronometer': Time, Ethos & Ethics in Aldo Leopold's 'Smoky Gold’”
Paul Formisano, “Watershed Rhetorics: Resistance and Restoration in the Colorado River Basin”
Rachel Gearhart, “Constructing the Enemy: The Rhetorical Moves of Roosevelt’s ‘Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation’”
Melissa Huffman, “Capitalizing on Ambivalence: Enslavement Tropes in Nineteenth Century America Social Reform Discourses”
Michelle Hall Kells, “The ‘Chamizal Effect:’ Solastalgia and the Rhetoric of Place on the US/Mexico Border”
Deborah S. Paczynski, “Barack Obama’s Rhetorical Regression Toward the Future: The Tyranny of Tyrannizing Images”
Susan Romano, “Emergent and Divergent Latin American Historical Rhetoric: Meeting Reader Expectations for Coverage”
June 2012
Peter White taught in Austria in June for the AAECA Summer Program in which Austrian public school teachers learned about American education, language and culture in an intensive English only program. White taught the American Short Story and played the fiddle for dances at night
In June and July, White studied advanced violin making in Krakow Poland with his former teacher from 1980, Jan Pawlikowski
July 2012
Jason Bengtson, “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.
Greg Martin, Reading from Stories for Boys, Taos Summer Writers Conference and
Reading from Stories for Boys, SOMOS Reading Series, Harwood Art Gallery, Taos, NM
Peter White taught a course in American English to computer scientists in Vinnitsa, Ukraine
National Consortium of Writing Across Communities Summit, Santa Fe.
Dan Cryer, “Negotiating Scarcity: Starting a WAC Program on Social Capital”
Anna V. Knutson, “Digital Bridges: Multimodal Connections Across Communities”
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK
Colleen Dunn, “Becoming Her Own Accuser: The Art of Courtly Love as a Commentary on Eleanor of Aquitaine”
Lisa Myers, “‘We be yemen of this foreste, under the grene wod tre’: Subversion in the Middle English Ballads of Robin Hood”
Anita Obermeier, “Sent Away, Sainted, or Self-Sainted: the Childless Queens Theutberga, Cunigunde, and Edith”
Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM
Tiffany Bourelle, Cristyn Elder, and Chuck Paine served on the conference program committee.
Genesea Carter, “Cross-Institutional Collaborations: Peer Writing Groups and Writing Workshops”
Dan Cryer and Lindsey Ives, “Writing and Teaching Online—How Do We Assess and Maintain this Ever-Changing Environment?”
Beth Davila, “Multiple Perspectives on Directed Self-Placement in the Academy”
Cristyn Elder and Chuck Paine, “Broadening the Habits of Mind for WPAs and Students”
Annarose Fitzgerald, “I Didn’t Know This Was a Writing Class!: Fostering Connections Between Composition and Literature Approaches”
Christine Garcia, Danny Bogert, Natasha Jones, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, “Why Mentorship Matters to Us: A Discussion of the Effects of (Under)Representation of Faculty of Color on Junior WPAs”
Lindsey Ives and Todd Ruecker, “Racism and Native Speakerism in the Writing Classroom”
Michelle Kells and Brian Hendrickson, “Accidental Tourists on the ‘Mother Road’: Route 66 and Other Metaphors for Navigating the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing”
Chuck Paine, “Delbanco’s Plea: What Does a Defense of Liberal Arts Have to Do with Writing Programs?” and “A New Stage for the NSSE Writing Questions – CWPA’s Continued Involvement”
Todd Ruecker, “Preparing Instructors and TAs to Serve the Emerging Majority”
Leah Snyder and Lindsey Ives, “A Roundtable of Ejournal Editors: Digital Spaces that Support and Expand Writing Program Goals”
Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Writing SIG, Porto, Portugal
Jill V. Jeffery, & Polleck, J. N. “Adolescent authorial identity in a student-initiated writing group: Examining intersections between school-based and voluntary writing”
Wilcox, K., & Jeffery, J. V. “Authorial identity and agency in adolescent English language learners’ stances toward content-area writing”
David K Dunaway, Readings, A Route 66 Companion (University of Texas Press, 2012): Bookworks, Albuquerque; Collected Works, Santa Fe; Booksmith, San Francisco
Taught a workshop: “Broadcasting and Publishing Oral History,” for faculty and graduate students at the University of Sao Paulo
August 2012
Peter White won second place in old time fiddle at the Santa Fe Fiddle and Banjo Contest
Monday, October 8, 2012
Greg Martin publishes Stories for Boys, Reading on Nov. 8 at UNM
Greg Martin's second book, STORIES FOR BOYS, was published this fall by Hawthorne Books.
"STORIES FOR BOYS is a memoir and tells the story of my relationship with my father, who came out of the closet as a gay man after 39 years of marriage to my mother, and who came out to me after surviving a suicide attempt. The book also tells the story of how I came to share this change in the life of our family with my two young sons. I’m really grateful also that the book is now in its third printing and has been named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection for Holiday 2012."
You can see more about STORIES FOR BOYS on Greg's website here: http://gregorymartinwrites.wordpress.com/
And on the website for Hawthorne Books: http://hawthornebooks.com/authors/greg-martin
The book is available at the UNM Bookstore, at Bookworks on Rio Grande, as well as on Amazon or Powells or Barnes & Noble. You can also purchase the book as an e-book, for the Kindle or the Nook.
Greg Martin will be giving a Reading, with a book signing to follow
November 8th
on the UNM Campus,
in Dane Smith Hall, in room 123,
at 7:00 PM.
Parking is close and convenient at the Yale Parking Garage, just a half block north of Lomas on Yale.Greg's Upcoming Readings:
I just got back from a trip up to Missoula to give a reading and be on a panel about the memoir at the Montana Festival of the Book, and this week I’ll be reading at Powell’s in Portland, then the Wordstock Book Festival this weekend, and next week, I’ll be reading in Bellingham and Seattle and Salt Lake as part of the Utah Festival of the Book. If you know folks in those towns, and want to pass along that I’ll be up there, you can see the specifics of those readings on the appearances page of my website here: http://gregorymartinwrites.wordpress.com/appearances/
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Greg Martin & Amy Beeder Read at Bookworks
Sunday, September 30, 2012
3:00pm
Gregory Martin is the author of the memoir, Stories for Boys, published in Fall 2012 by Hawthorne Books. Barnes & Noble has named Stories for Boys a Discover Great New Writers selection for Holiday 2012. Martin’s first book, Mountain City (FSG/North Point Press), received a Washington State Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and is referred to by some people in Mountain City as “the book.” Martin’s work has appeared in The Sun, The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Writer, Witness, and elsewhere. For his teaching, Martin has received the University of New Mexico’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. He is an Associate Professor of English and serves as Director of UNM’s Combined BA/MD Degree Program.
Amy Beeder is the author two books of poetry: Burn the Field and Now Make an Altar, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, AGNI, The Nation, Pleiades, American Letters & Commentary, and other journals. She teaches poetry at the University of New Mexico. A former human rights observer in Haiti and Suriname, and a high school teacher in West Africa, Amy Beeder balances an ear for meter with an often ominous tone, creating a musical, at times mythical, exploration of how we construct beauty and strangeness. Beeder’s honors include a 2001 “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, and an award from the Emerging Writers Network.
3:00pm
Gregory Martin is the author of the memoir, Stories for Boys, published in Fall 2012 by Hawthorne Books. Barnes & Noble has named Stories for Boys a Discover Great New Writers selection for Holiday 2012. Martin’s first book, Mountain City (FSG/North Point Press), received a Washington State Book Award, was named a New York Times Notable Book, and is referred to by some people in Mountain City as “the book.” Martin’s work has appeared in The Sun, The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Writer, Witness, and elsewhere. For his teaching, Martin has received the University of New Mexico’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award. He is an Associate Professor of English and serves as Director of UNM’s Combined BA/MD Degree Program.
Amy Beeder is the author two books of poetry: Burn the Field and Now Make an Altar, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, AGNI, The Nation, Pleiades, American Letters & Commentary, and other journals. She teaches poetry at the University of New Mexico. A former human rights observer in Haiti and Suriname, and a high school teacher in West Africa, Amy Beeder balances an ear for meter with an often ominous tone, creating a musical, at times mythical, exploration of how we construct beauty and strangeness. Beeder’s honors include a 2001 “Discovery”/The Nation Award, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, and an award from the Emerging Writers Network.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Greg Martin publications and award
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.
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.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Summer Memoir Writing Workshop: Write Your Heart Out
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’ve been meaning to write.” Julie Richie
Where: El Rito, New Mexico, on the campus of Northern New Mexico College. The El Rito campus is 57 miles north of Santa Fe on a 62 acre tract. The elevation is 6,800 feet. Adjacent to the campus is the scenic and peaceful El Rito village that is surrounded by the vast Carson National Forest. 15 miles to the east is the village of Ojo Caliente which is famous for its hot mineral springs. 18 miles to the northwest is Abiquiu, which was settled by the Genizaro indigenous people and is one of the first Spanish land grants (1753) in northern New Mexico.
The school is the largest building in El Rito. The town has a population of 1800 people and 450 houses. There is one restaurant in town, a Catholic church, a vibrant public library, and a post office across the street from the college. This quiet, restful community is ideal for writing.
When: The workshop will begin Sunday evening, August 7th and end Friday, August 12th. Sunday evening there will be an historical introduction to the area—the original Chama Valley. The afternoon of the last day there will be a field trip to witness the tribal corn dance at the Santa Clara pueblo—a celebration of a Native American feast day. If you come from out-of-state you are encouraged to remain in the area for an extra day or two and visit scenic Santa Fe.
Attendees will spend 3 hours in workshop, and free time in the afternoons and evenings for writing.
Tuition: $250.00. Lodging: $36.00 a night. Meals: $150.00 (breakfast, lunch & dinner for 5 days). Barbeque Sunday at night. The college provides pillows and bed linen. There is a small kitchen in the dorm for people who want to cook or prepare snacks.
Deposit of $100.00 is due by July 20th, 2011. Mail deposit to P.O. Box 203, El Rito,
New Mexico 87530.
Transportation: Airfare ranges from $250.00 to $450.00 depending on where you are coming from, and participants fly into Albuquerque which is 2 hours from El Rito.
Attendeses can take a shuttle from the airport to Santa Fe. There will be a one-time pick up on Sunday, August 7th at the Inn of Loretto in Santa Fe.
Writing: You may already be working on narratives based on your life—long or short, i.e., one episode in your life, or a phase in your life. In any case, this is an opportunity to devote focused time to just writing. El Rito is quaint, quiet, and isolated—a perfect setting to write your heart out—new material, or revise what you are already working on. If you are committed to this you should be able to write daily. The workshop hours will be devoted to writing exercises, giving directions and feedback, answering common questions such as, “Is it okay to use real names?” You will be encouraged to read all the work you develop in the workshop. I suggest you read at least one memoir, or two before the workshop begins. Come prepared to share the memoir you are familiar with and/or bring a memoir with you. I’ll be happy to provide you with recommendations.
Main attraction: Northern New Mexico is quite beautiful, especially the Carson National Forest where there are hiking trails, mountains to climb, lakes for fishing, and picnic and camping grounds. You will be one hour from Taos, 25 minutes from the Santa Clara and San Juan Indian pueblos, 15 minutes from the Georgia O’Keefe house, and 20 minutes from the natural hot springs in Ojo Caliente. You are encouraged to bring a swimsuit. Also, there are several Native American pueblos in the area.
Other areas of interest:
. Hacienda of Padre Martinez in Taos
. Art museums in Taos
. Art museums and galleries in Santa Fe
. Indian Market in Santa Fe (mid August)
Note: If interested send an email to – robertao@windstream.net
(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’ve been meaning to write.” Julie Richie
Where: El Rito, New Mexico, on the campus of Northern New Mexico College. The El Rito campus is 57 miles north of Santa Fe on a 62 acre tract. The elevation is 6,800 feet. Adjacent to the campus is the scenic and peaceful El Rito village that is surrounded by the vast Carson National Forest. 15 miles to the east is the village of Ojo Caliente which is famous for its hot mineral springs. 18 miles to the northwest is Abiquiu, which was settled by the Genizaro indigenous people and is one of the first Spanish land grants (1753) in northern New Mexico.
The school is the largest building in El Rito. The town has a population of 1800 people and 450 houses. There is one restaurant in town, a Catholic church, a vibrant public library, and a post office across the street from the college. This quiet, restful community is ideal for writing.
When: The workshop will begin Sunday evening, August 7th and end Friday, August 12th. Sunday evening there will be an historical introduction to the area—the original Chama Valley. The afternoon of the last day there will be a field trip to witness the tribal corn dance at the Santa Clara pueblo—a celebration of a Native American feast day. If you come from out-of-state you are encouraged to remain in the area for an extra day or two and visit scenic Santa Fe.
Attendees will spend 3 hours in workshop, and free time in the afternoons and evenings for writing.
Tuition: $250.00. Lodging: $36.00 a night. Meals: $150.00 (breakfast, lunch & dinner for 5 days). Barbeque Sunday at night. The college provides pillows and bed linen. There is a small kitchen in the dorm for people who want to cook or prepare snacks.
Deposit of $100.00 is due by July 20th, 2011. Mail deposit to P.O. Box 203, El Rito,
New Mexico 87530.
Transportation: Airfare ranges from $250.00 to $450.00 depending on where you are coming from, and participants fly into Albuquerque which is 2 hours from El Rito.
Attendeses can take a shuttle from the airport to Santa Fe. There will be a one-time pick up on Sunday, August 7th at the Inn of Loretto in Santa Fe.
Writing: You may already be working on narratives based on your life—long or short, i.e., one episode in your life, or a phase in your life. In any case, this is an opportunity to devote focused time to just writing. El Rito is quaint, quiet, and isolated—a perfect setting to write your heart out—new material, or revise what you are already working on. If you are committed to this you should be able to write daily. The workshop hours will be devoted to writing exercises, giving directions and feedback, answering common questions such as, “Is it okay to use real names?” You will be encouraged to read all the work you develop in the workshop. I suggest you read at least one memoir, or two before the workshop begins. Come prepared to share the memoir you are familiar with and/or bring a memoir with you. I’ll be happy to provide you with recommendations.
Main attraction: Northern New Mexico is quite beautiful, especially the Carson National Forest where there are hiking trails, mountains to climb, lakes for fishing, and picnic and camping grounds. You will be one hour from Taos, 25 minutes from the Santa Clara and San Juan Indian pueblos, 15 minutes from the Georgia O’Keefe house, and 20 minutes from the natural hot springs in Ojo Caliente. You are encouraged to bring a swimsuit. Also, there are several Native American pueblos in the area.
Other areas of interest:
. Hacienda of Padre Martinez in Taos
. Art museums in Taos
. Art museums and galleries in Santa Fe
. Indian Market in Santa Fe (mid August)
Note: If interested send an email to – robertao@windstream.net
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