Kalila Bohsali is an undergraduate student, double majoring in literature and French, with a minor in Arabic.
See Mara Kerkez' full article from the UNM Newsroom.
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Showing posts with label student news. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Kalila Bohsali Receives Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Kalila Bohsali is an undergraduate student, double majoring in literature and French, with a minor in Arabic.
See Mara Kerkez' full article from the UNM Newsroom.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Poets Publishing MFA Dissertations
Nick dePascal, who graduated with an MFA in 2013 and is currently a lecturer in our department, won the first West End Press Poetry Prize. His book, Before You Become Improbable, is now out from West End Press. Congratulations to Nick!
In addition, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, also a 2013 poetry MFA graduate, has had her manuscript, The Verging Cities, accepted by the Center for Literary Publishing through their Mountain West Poetry Series. Congratulations Natalie!
In addition, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, also a 2013 poetry MFA graduate, has had her manuscript, The Verging Cities, accepted by the Center for Literary Publishing through their Mountain West Poetry Series. Congratulations Natalie!
AISB Outstanding Student Award in English
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances in Fall 2013
September
Jonathan Davis-Secord. "Exploitation of Compound Frequency in Old English Style." Studies in the History of the English Language. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT: September 26-28, 2013.
October
Lisa Myers. "Music Theory and Performance in the Middle English Breton Lay Sir Orfeo." Southeastern Medieval Association. Appalachian State University. Boone, NC: October 3-5, 2013.
Association for the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Wayne State University. Detroit, MI: October 3-6, 2013.
W. Oliver Baker. "Meth, Rural Whiteness, and the Ozarks: Neoliberalism and the Great Recession in Winter’s Bone."
Ann D’Orazio. "Save Our City: Transmetropolitan and the Antihero Citizen."
Stephanie Spong. "'Affection Would Be Revolution Enough': Public Eroticism and the Re-Imagined Love Lyric in Bruce Andrews' Designated Heartbeat."
Western Literature Association. Berkeley, CA: October 9-12, 2013.
Erin Murrah-Mandril. "Preserving the Ghosts of the Alamo: Adina de Zavala's History and Legends."
Melina Vizcaino-Alemán. "Critical Regionalism and The West: Intersections of Architecture and Literature in the Southwest."
Julie Williams. "Western Writing and Wheelchairs: Embodiment and Ability in Women's Writing about Place."
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Vancouver, WA. October 9-13, 2013.
Doaa Omran. "(Re) Defining Islamic Terrorism: A Middle Eastern Perspective."
Erin Woltkamp. "Performing the Discourse of Power: Breaking Away From the Madwoman in the Attic Through Discursive Tactics in Villette."
Natasha Jones. "Social Justice as Technical Communication Pedagogy." Council for Programs on Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). Cincinnati, OH: October 2013.
November
Daoine Bachran. "Being (post)Human: Mechanization, Militarization, and Human Rights in Chicana/o Science Fiction." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.: November 21, 2013.
Kathleen Washburn. "Modern American Indian Literature: Early Twentieth-Century Texts and Contexts." The Newberry Library Colloquium. Chicago, IL: November 13, 2013.
Jonathan Davis-Secord. "Exploitation of Compound Frequency in Old English Style." Studies in the History of the English Language. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT: September 26-28, 2013.
October
Lisa Myers. "Music Theory and Performance in the Middle English Breton Lay Sir Orfeo." Southeastern Medieval Association. Appalachian State University. Boone, NC: October 3-5, 2013.
Association for the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Wayne State University. Detroit, MI: October 3-6, 2013.
W. Oliver Baker. "Meth, Rural Whiteness, and the Ozarks: Neoliberalism and the Great Recession in Winter’s Bone."
Ann D’Orazio. "Save Our City: Transmetropolitan and the Antihero Citizen."
Stephanie Spong. "'Affection Would Be Revolution Enough': Public Eroticism and the Re-Imagined Love Lyric in Bruce Andrews' Designated Heartbeat."
Western Literature Association. Berkeley, CA: October 9-12, 2013.
Erin Murrah-Mandril. "Preserving the Ghosts of the Alamo: Adina de Zavala's History and Legends."
Melina Vizcaino-Alemán. "Critical Regionalism and The West: Intersections of Architecture and Literature in the Southwest."
Julie Williams. "Western Writing and Wheelchairs: Embodiment and Ability in Women's Writing about Place."
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Vancouver, WA. October 9-13, 2013.
Doaa Omran. "(Re) Defining Islamic Terrorism: A Middle Eastern Perspective."
Erin Woltkamp. "Performing the Discourse of Power: Breaking Away From the Madwoman in the Attic Through Discursive Tactics in Villette."
Natasha Jones. "Social Justice as Technical Communication Pedagogy." Council for Programs on Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). Cincinnati, OH: October 2013.
November
Daoine Bachran. "Being (post)Human: Mechanization, Militarization, and Human Rights in Chicana/o Science Fiction." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.: November 21, 2013.
Kathleen Washburn. "Modern American Indian Literature: Early Twentieth-Century Texts and Contexts." The Newberry Library Colloquium. Chicago, IL: November 13, 2013.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Evee Ung begins her bright future at Georgetown University in Fall
Evee Ung has
received an impressive offer from Georgetown
University's Center
for New Designs in Teaching and Scholarship that includes full tuition remission and a stipend.
Friday, March 21, 2014
Emilee Howland-Davis into a Bright Future
Emilee Howland-Davis has been accepted into the English PhD program at the
University of Missouri at Columbia with a full assistantship and two fellowships: the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Supplemental
Graduate Fellowship, as well as the English Department Fellowship.
Emilee will continue studying Arthurian Literature in the context of magic. We
will miss you, Emilee, and wish you all the best. Dr. Obermeier
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!
Thursday, January 16, 2014
ALS at the MLA
It was another strong showing of American Literary Studies faculty and graduate students at the 2014 MLA in Chicago.
New doctoral student, Amy Gore, presented “Indigenizing the Gothic Novel: Harold Johnson’s Backtrack and Its Uncanny Conventions” at the Native Voices in Genre Fiction panel, and she also presided over a session on the American Indian Gothic. The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures arranged both panels.
Oliver Baker, a second year doctoral student, presented “Dispossession and Instability: The Free Labor Market and Southern Anxieties in John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta” at the Native South panel organized by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Katie Walkiewicz, who earned her MA in English and UNM and is now completing her PhD at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was also on the panel.
Dr. Kathleen Washburn presented “After 1893: Writing Indigenous Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century” at the Native Literary Chicago panel arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures.
Dr. Jesse Alemán served as a panelist on a round-table session titled “Rethinking Postbellum Literary History.” He also completed his three-year term on the Advisory Council of the American Literature Section and started his elected seat on the MLA’s Delegate Assembly.
New doctoral student, Amy Gore, presented “Indigenizing the Gothic Novel: Harold Johnson’s Backtrack and Its Uncanny Conventions” at the Native Voices in Genre Fiction panel, and she also presided over a session on the American Indian Gothic. The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures arranged both panels.
Oliver Baker, a second year doctoral student, presented “Dispossession and Instability: The Free Labor Market and Southern Anxieties in John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta” at the Native South panel organized by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Katie Walkiewicz, who earned her MA in English and UNM and is now completing her PhD at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was also on the panel.
Dr. Kathleen Washburn presented “After 1893: Writing Indigenous Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century” at the Native Literary Chicago panel arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures.
Dr. Jesse Alemán served as a panelist on a round-table session titled “Rethinking Postbellum Literary History.” He also completed his three-year term on the Advisory Council of the American Literature Section and started his elected seat on the MLA’s Delegate Assembly.
Rivera Garners UNM-Mellon Fellowship
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the highly competitive UNM-Mellon awards dissertation fellowships in the humanistic social sciences across ten UNM departments to senior doctoral students working on studies relevant to Latino/a or Native American communities. This is the first year that the English Department’s ALS program has been included in the qualified field of humanistic social sciences at UNM designated by the Mellon Foundation. The six-month award is meant to assist in the completion of the dissertation by providing a $12,500.00 stipend; tuition remission and health care coverage; and a $500.00 professional development or research support fund.
Rivera was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and received her BA and MA at the University of Texas-Pan American. She credits her passion for Mexican American literary study to her parents and grandmothers, who shared family stories of life in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and beyond. Her publications include “Third Space Resistance in Américo Paredes’s With His Pistol in His Hand: A Defense of Nuevo Santander” (forthcoming) in Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Volume IX; “Reconsidering Jovita González’s Life, Letters and Pre-1935 Folkloric Production: A Proto-Chicana’s Conscious Revolt Against Anglo Academic Patriarchy” (2011) in Chicana/Latina Studies Journal; and “Dime con quién andas”: Toward the Construction of a Dicho Paradigm and Its Significance in Chicano/a Literature” (2008) in the Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas. She’s the recipient of the American Association of University Women Santa Fe scholarship, the Office of Graduate Studies Earickson Trust award, the New Mexico Folklore Scholarship, and she was the English Department’s inaugural Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres fellow.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
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
Erin Murrah-Mandril, Department of English
Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 – 1:00
SUB Luminaria
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Christine Garcia named CRS Fellow
Christine
Garcia, PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Writing, has been named the Center for
Regional Studies Fellow for Chicana Studies for both the 2012-2013 and the
2013-2014 academic years. During her tenure as fellow, Ms. Garcia has assisted
in the drafting and implementation of an IRB approved study on Community Based
Learning and has been an integral part of the planning of a symposium honoring
Chicana Studies students' writing. Her work as CRS fellow has supported the
research and writing of her dissertation on the rhetoric of civil and labor
right's activist Dolores Huerta.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Joe Serio publishes on Namelessness in Western Fiction in Pop Culture Review
Joe Serio's paper, “Who Is the Man with No Name? Names and Namelessness in Western Fiction,” appears in the Summer 2013 issue of UNLV’s Pop Culture Review.
Friday, October 11, 2013
Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances in Summer 2013
June
14th International Willa Cather Summer Seminar, Flagstaff, AZ. June 16-22, 2013.
Julie Williams. “Capturing the Southwest: Willa Cather as Talented Tourist.”
Valerie Kinsey attended the Historiography Seminar at the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. Lawrence, KS. June 3-9, 2013.
July
Mythcon 44. East Lansing, MI. July 12-15, 2013.
Megan B. Abrahamson. “JRR Tolkien, Fanfiction, and ‘the Freedom of the Reader.’”
Conference of Writing Program Administrators, Savannah, GA, July 18-21, 2013.
Cristyn Elder. “Diversity Task Force Speaking Out Strand: WPA, Non-Tenure Track, and Untenured WPAs.”
Cristyn Elder. “Navigating the Tensions between WPA Work and the Expectations for Tenure and Promotion in the First Year.”
Christine Garcia, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, Brian Hendrickson, Matthew Tougas, The Intellectual Work of Civic Engagement: An Unauthorized Autobiography
Brian Hendrickson, DTF SPEAKING OUT STRAND: WPA-GO Diversity Task Force
Brian Hendrickson, Genesea Carter, Inside the Campus Interview: An Interactive Roundtable Discussion
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Biennial Conference. Dublin, Ireland. July 29-August 2, 2013.
Jonathan Davis-Secord. “Sequences and Intellectual Identity at Winchester.”
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri. Presented “Current Research Topics in ESL/EFL Contexts” at Maha Sarakam University, Thailand on July 7, 2013.
August
Greg Martin: “Curriculum Innovations in the Combined BA/MD Program,” Chairs and Directors Retreat, University of New Mexico, August 14, 2013.
14th International Willa Cather Summer Seminar, Flagstaff, AZ. June 16-22, 2013.
Julie Williams. “Capturing the Southwest: Willa Cather as Talented Tourist.”
Valerie Kinsey attended the Historiography Seminar at the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. Lawrence, KS. June 3-9, 2013.
July
Mythcon 44. East Lansing, MI. July 12-15, 2013.
Megan B. Abrahamson. “JRR Tolkien, Fanfiction, and ‘the Freedom of the Reader.’”
Conference of Writing Program Administrators, Savannah, GA, July 18-21, 2013.
Cristyn Elder. “Diversity Task Force Speaking Out Strand: WPA, Non-Tenure Track, and Untenured WPAs.”
Cristyn Elder. “Navigating the Tensions between WPA Work and the Expectations for Tenure and Promotion in the First Year.”
Christine Garcia, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, Brian Hendrickson, Matthew Tougas, The Intellectual Work of Civic Engagement: An Unauthorized Autobiography
Brian Hendrickson, DTF SPEAKING OUT STRAND: WPA-GO Diversity Task Force
Brian Hendrickson, Genesea Carter, Inside the Campus Interview: An Interactive Roundtable Discussion
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Biennial Conference. Dublin, Ireland. July 29-August 2, 2013.
Jonathan Davis-Secord. “Sequences and Intellectual Identity at Winchester.”
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri. Presented “Current Research Topics in ESL/EFL Contexts” at Maha Sarakam University, Thailand on July 7, 2013.
August
Greg Martin: “Curriculum Innovations in the Combined BA/MD Program,” Chairs and Directors Retreat, University of New Mexico, August 14, 2013.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Megan Abrahamson receives Alexi Kondratiev Award
Megan Abrahamson received the Alexi Kondratiev Award for the Best
Student Paper Presented at Mythcon, the Annual Conference of the Mythopoeic
Society, for her essay "JRR Tolkien, Fanfiction, and 'The Freedom of the
Reader.'" Her paper was subsequently also solicited for publication for the
Fall/Winter 2013 issue of Mythlore.
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.
Annarose Fitzgerald presents her paper "Gentle Jesus in the Sauce Tureen," Thursday, October 3
Please join us for discussion, questions, and light refreshment!
Justin Brock and Annarose Fitzgerald Garner FRI Awards
Justin Brock (recent MA in Medieval Studies) received the 2013 Best Student Paper Prize from the Feminist Research Institute for his essay, "The Critical Voices from Joyous Gard: The Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur."
Annarose Fitzgerald, PhD candidate in Literature, competed successfully for an FRI Graduate Student Research Grant for her dissertation research on Modernist poet Mina Loy at Yale University's Beinecke Library.
Annarose Fitzgerald, PhD candidate in Literature, competed successfully for an FRI Graduate Student Research Grant for her dissertation research on Modernist poet Mina Loy at Yale University's Beinecke Library.
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, August 26, 2013
Murrah-Mandril Named the 2013-2014 CRS Hector Torres Fellow
Erin Murrah-Mandril, a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department, with a concentration in American Literary Studies, has been awarded the Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship.
Murrah-Mandril took her BA in History and her MA in English at the University of New Mexico, and now, she is on the verge of completing her PhD in English. Her work focuses on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Mexican American literary production, and she has published articles in Western American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, and the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage series.
As a CRS Hector Torres Fellow, Murrah-Mandril will complete research and writing for her dissertation, “Time Out of Joint: Learning to Live with Specters through Mexican American Historical Narrative.” The project argues that Mexican American authors trouble modernist conceptions of empty, homogenous, linear and progressive time in order to survive and contest US colonization. Her dissertation contextualizes the temporality of Mexican American literature within both the time of production and the time of literary recovery and maintains that early Mexican American writers, such as Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Miguel Otero, Adina de Zavala, and Jovita Gonzalez, challenge notions of progressive time to reveal temporality itself as a colonial instrument. The material for her dissertation is located in archives throughout New Mexico and South Texas.
The Hector Torres Fellowship, a $10,000-$15,000 stipend, was inaugurated in 2010 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 the late 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.
Murrah-Mandril is particularly grateful to be a CRS Hector Torres Fellow as the late Dr. Torres was one of her mentors, and his commitment to intellectual work strongly influences her theoretical approach. Her dissertation would not be possible without the guidance he provided.
Murrah-Mandril took her BA in History and her MA in English at the University of New Mexico, and now, she is on the verge of completing her PhD in English. Her work focuses on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Mexican American literary production, and she has published articles in Western American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, and the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage series.
As a CRS Hector Torres Fellow, Murrah-Mandril will complete research and writing for her dissertation, “Time Out of Joint: Learning to Live with Specters through Mexican American Historical Narrative.” The project argues that Mexican American authors trouble modernist conceptions of empty, homogenous, linear and progressive time in order to survive and contest US colonization. Her dissertation contextualizes the temporality of Mexican American literature within both the time of production and the time of literary recovery and maintains that early Mexican American writers, such as Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Miguel Otero, Adina de Zavala, and Jovita Gonzalez, challenge notions of progressive time to reveal temporality itself as a colonial instrument. The material for her dissertation is located in archives throughout New Mexico and South Texas.
The Hector Torres Fellowship, a $10,000-$15,000 stipend, was inaugurated in 2010 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 the late 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.
Murrah-Mandril is particularly grateful to be a CRS Hector Torres Fellow as the late Dr. Torres was one of her mentors, and his commitment to intellectual work strongly influences her theoretical approach. Her dissertation would not be possible without the guidance he provided.
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