Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Paul Bogard: Publication News
Paul Bogard, UNM MFA alumni in Creative Nonfiction, has just had his second book accepted for publication: The Geography of Night: Discovering Darkness in an Age of Light is forthcoming in 2012 from Little, Brown. Bogard is currently a lecturer at Wake Forest University.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
UNM English at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Conference
English Department faculty and graduate students were well represented at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations 33rd Annual Conference, February 8 – 11, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, NM.
Megan Abrahamson, “‘Sir Marty-Stu’: Lancelot and Le Morte D’Arthur as Self-Insert Fan-Fiction”
Vincent Basso, “Life in the World that Does Not Exist: Uses of the Surreal in Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz”
Paul Formisano, “Green Lagoons and Delta Blues: Transnational Considerations of the Colorado River Delta”
Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, “Gladys and Gorgias: Race, Neosophism, and Tragicomic Hope in the Monologues of John Leguizamo”
Scarlett Higgins, “Making Music Different: Nathaniel Mackey's Blutopic Lyric”
Matthew Hofer, session chair for “Poetry and Poetics (Critical) 1: Sounds and Silences in Twentieth-Century American Poetry” and presenter “‘I Want the Poem to Fail’: John Taggart's New Kind of Silence”
Natalie Kubasek, “Teatro de las Chicanas: The Emergence of an Aesthetic Chicana Feminist Space within the Movement”
Julia Remsik Larsen, “Dying for Change: Mortality and Immortality in Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”
Brian Slaughter, “Author as Authority and the Right to Write: Voice, Agency, and Representation in Chimamanda Ngozi Achidie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”
Diane Thiel, session chair for “Creative Writing 4: Mixed Genres” and presenter “Poetry and Translations”
Jill Walker Gonzalez, “From Captive to Captor and Captive Again: The Abduction Myth and Captivity Narrative in the Female American”
Julie Williams, “Depictions of Destruction: How Nuclear Literature Represents Imagined and Real Nuclear Devastation” and “Female Embodiment and the Western Landscape in The Story of Mary MacLane”
Megan Abrahamson, “‘Sir Marty-Stu’: Lancelot and Le Morte D’Arthur as Self-Insert Fan-Fiction”
Vincent Basso, “Life in the World that Does Not Exist: Uses of the Surreal in Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz”
Paul Formisano, “Green Lagoons and Delta Blues: Transnational Considerations of the Colorado River Delta”
Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, “Gladys and Gorgias: Race, Neosophism, and Tragicomic Hope in the Monologues of John Leguizamo”
Scarlett Higgins, “Making Music Different: Nathaniel Mackey's Blutopic Lyric”
Matthew Hofer, session chair for “Poetry and Poetics (Critical) 1: Sounds and Silences in Twentieth-Century American Poetry” and presenter “‘I Want the Poem to Fail’: John Taggart's New Kind of Silence”
Natalie Kubasek, “Teatro de las Chicanas: The Emergence of an Aesthetic Chicana Feminist Space within the Movement”
Julia Remsik Larsen, “Dying for Change: Mortality and Immortality in Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”
Brian Slaughter, “Author as Authority and the Right to Write: Voice, Agency, and Representation in Chimamanda Ngozi Achidie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”
Diane Thiel, session chair for “Creative Writing 4: Mixed Genres” and presenter “Poetry and Translations”
Jill Walker Gonzalez, “From Captive to Captor and Captive Again: The Abduction Myth and Captivity Narrative in the Female American”
Julie Williams, “Depictions of Destruction: How Nuclear Literature Represents Imagined and Real Nuclear Devastation” and “Female Embodiment and the Western Landscape in The Story of Mary MacLane”
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Kathleen Washburn: Award
Congratulations to Dr. Kathleen Washburn who has been named the UNM Alumni Association Faculty Award winner for 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Elizabeth Tannen: Publication News
Elizabeth Tannen has a post at Huffington Post about Facebook and writers. Read the entire post here.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Taos Summer Writers' Conference
The Taos Summer Writers' Conference will be featured in the May/June Issue of Writer's Digest.
Learn more about this year's workshops at the Conference website here.
Learn more about this year's workshops at the Conference website here.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Israel Wasserstein: Publication News
MFA alumnus Israel Wasserstein just announced that his poetry book, This Ecstasy They Call Damnation, will be published by Woodley Press. The book was his MFA dissertation.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Carolyn Kuchera: Employment News
Congratulations to Carolyn Kuchera, PhD in American Literature in Fall 2011, who has accepted a full-time one-year position at UNM-Gallup.
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