UNM English Graduate Students Present at RMMLA

Several UNM English graduate students presented this past weekend at the 2010 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention in Albuquerque:

• Christine Kozikowski, “Charlemagne and the Creation of English Identity.”
• Lisa Myers, “Malory’s Forest of Irrational Love.”
• Bruce A. Carroll, “Laid Down and Broken: Law in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur.”
• Annarose Fitzgerald, “‘So I Will Tell You This’: Auricular Confession in Charlotte Mew’s ‘Saturday Market’ and ‘Ne Me Tangito’.”
• Gregory Evans, “Holy Crap, it’s a Coup!” and "Hermeneutics in the Classroom: Collaborative, Student-Centered Learning for the Twenty-first Century."
• Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen, “The Old French Word ‘Mortaise’ in the York Play of the Crucifixion.”
• Paul Formisano, “A River of Voices: Confluences and Cross-Currents in the Literature of the Colorado River.”
• Marisa Sikes, "Appropriating Joan: The Saint in Christine de Pizan’s Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc and The Legend of Billie Jean."
• Carolyn Kuchera, "American Primitives."
• Katherine Marie Alexander, "Collapsing the Boundaries Between Two Worlds: Language and Mourning in Mary Shelley."
• Ying Xu, "A Body of Troubled Site/Sight: Re-signifying Double Consciousness in Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America."
• Leah Sneider, "Gender, Genre and Self-Determination in Winnemucca's Life Among the Piutes."
• Bonnie Altamirano and Richard Vargas read during the "Readings by Poets from the University of New Mexico" session.

Session Chairs:

• Jen Nader: American Nineteenth-Century Literature - I & American Nineteenth-Century Literature - II
• Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen was elected chair for the Old and Middle English sessions at the 2011 RMMLA Convention in Scottsdale, AZ.
  

MEGSE Blog Migrating to UNM English Blog

The Medieval Graduate Students in English (http://megse.unm.edu) are currently migrating their blog to the English Department main blog. Medieval Studies related blog posts will be viewable through the main blog site.

Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture: The Literature of the Southwest - Details

The UNM English Department has established the annual lecture series through a gift from the renowned fiction writer Rudolfo Anaya and his late wife Patricia Anaya. "Emerita Professor Rudy Anaya was a wonderful teacher and creative writer in our department,” says Professor Gail Houston. “We feel privileged to have received his generous donation, and we are honored that the first lecture will be given by distinguished poet, writer, and scholar Simon Ortiz. There is no better venue for celebrating Southwest literature than the University of New Mexico English Department. We look forward to sharing this free event with everyone at UNM and in the community.”

Currently a professor at Arizona State University, Simon Ortiz received an honorary doctorate from the University of New Mexico in 2002.  He is widely regarded as a foundational figure in Native American literature and is the author of 15 books of poetry, fiction, essays, and children’s literature, including Going for the Rain (1976), Woven Stone (1992), Men on the Moon (1999), and From Sand Creek (2000), plus the collection A Ceremony of Brotherhood, 1680-1980, co-edited with longtime friend Rudolfo Anaya. Ortiz will speak on the connections among indigenous cultures, Southwest studies, and global literature.

UNM campus map (PDF)

visitor parking:
George Pearl Hall (building 195) is located at Central and Cornell, facing the UNM Bookstore. Visitor parking is available at the Redondo parking structure (building 198) across from Popejoy Hall.

Central Ave NE Albuquerque, NM
1. Head west on Historic U.S. 66 W toward Louisiana Blvd NE 2.9 mi
2. Turn right at Stanford Dr NE 187 ft
3. Turn left at Redondo Dr NE Destination will be on the left 187 ft

George Pearl Hall Albuquerque, NM 87106


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David Dunaway: Vox Populi Award

Professor David Dunaway has been named as the 2010 "Voice of the People" award recipient,  presented for outstanding achievement in the collecting and use of oral histories. This award is given to individuals and organizations whose life work has contributed to change for a better world.

The review committee expressed that they were impressed by Dr. Dunaway's comprehensive and broad research, in particular his sustained history of contributions to the field. First, the ability to document the life and work of Pete Seeger (oral history as biography) in How Can I Keep From Singing? Second, connecting the oral histories in Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals to a wider historical inquiry about the importance of protest/political songs of America's folk music revivals. Last, but not least, his ability as curator to preserve and place oral histories at the Library of Congress Folklife Center, which will prove useful and valuable to oral historians and scholars more generally.

Dr. Dunaway will be presented with the award by Stetson Kennedy (the only living subject of a Woody Guthrie song)  in Atlanta on October 30, 2010.

2010 Celebration of Student Writing

Nearly 700 students from 32 sections of English 101 and 102 will display visual representations of their writing projects to share their thoughts and ideas  with the UNM general campus and with the Albuquerque community. Instead of reading the students' written texts, you'll see their work represented through art installations.

Thursday, October 21st, 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
UNM SUB Ballrooms A, B &C

Sponsored by the Dean of Students Office, CAPS (the Center for Academic Program Support), Writing Across Communities, and the English Department

Download the event flier here (pdf)

1st Annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture: The Literature of the Southwest

Renowned poet, writer, and scholar Simon J. Ortiz will give the inaugural Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture.

Thursday, October 21, 5:30 p.m.
George Pearl Hall, Room 101

Presented by Rudolfo Anaya, the UNM Regents' Speaker Fund, the Department of English, University Libraries, and the College of Arts & Sciences.

English Department Colloquium: David Jones

Please join us next Wednesday, October 6 for the second English Department Colloquium of the fall.  Professor
David Jones will present "Integrating the American Theatre--the 1920s."

Where: English Dept. Lounge, Humanities 235
When: Wed., October 6 at 12:30