English 500 Presents A Mini-Conference of Graduate Student Work

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 12:30-1:45
Thursday, Dec. 6, 12:15-1:50

Please join us for a mini-conference of graduate student work featuring presentations by the graduate students enrolled in English 500. The conference will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 12:30-1:45, in Hum 324 (the Leon Howard Memorial Library) and on Thursday, Dec. 6, from 12:15-1:50, in the same location.

Tuesday, December 4 Hum 324—Leon Howard Memorial Library 12:30-1:45

Oliver Baker

PhD Student “Illicit Economies in the Ozarks: Challenges to Neo-Liberal Order in Winter’s Bone”

Annie D’Orazio

PhD Student “Ancient Warriors, Insular Hands, and Monster Fights”

Justin Falk-Gee

PhD Student “Language and Negotiation in the Basic Writing Classroom”

Thursday, December 6, 12:15-1:50 Hum 324—Leon Howard Memorial Library 12:15-1:50

Silvia Lu

MA Student “Deferring ‘Perfect Concord’: Proposals of Marriage and Novel Masculinities in Jane Eyre”

Leonard Martinez

MA Student “Robert G. Ingersoll: Forgotten American Polemic”

Nichole Neff

MA Student “Shark Representation in Nineteenth-Century Texts: Into the Belly of the Beast”

Erin Woltkamp

MA Student “Performing the Discourse of Power: Breaking Away from the Madwoman in the Attic through Gendered Language”

Jesse Alemán speaks on Days of the (Un)Dead

Jesse Alemán speaks on Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Horrifying Forms of Chicano/a Identity in Film

Wednesday, November 28th, 12:30--1:30 pm
El Centro de la Raza Conference Room

Blue Mesa Review, Reviewed in NewPages.com

Blue Mesa Review, Issue 25, Spring 2012 www.unm.edu/~bluemesa
Review by David R. Matteri
Blue Mesa Review, a product of the creative writing program of the University of New Mexico, almost did not see publication this year. Editor-in-Chief Suzanne Rose Richardson reports that her fellow editors had to fight to keep their magazine alive during their school’s funding crisis: “They organized fund raisers, attended countless meetings, and they brainstormed in order to bring you this very issue you’re holding. Each editor gave above and beyond to ensure this issue had a chance to make it.” The folks at Blue Mesa have a lot to be proud of in this issue. The result of their hard work and dedication is a handsome journal with great content.

{For the complete review,
http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2012-11-15/#Blue-Mesa-Review-I25-Spring-2012}

US Poet Laureate Is Keynote Reader for 15th Annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference

On Sunday, July 14th at 8 p.m., our newly installed U.S. poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, will give the keynote reading for the 15th annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference (July 14-21, 2012).

Trethewey's reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.

Natasha Trethewey http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/natasha_trethewey/index.html

the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. Ms. Trethewey, 46, was born in Gulfport, Miss., and is the first Southerner to hold the post since Robert Penn Warren, the original laureate, and the first African-American since Rita Dove in 1993.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/natasha-trethewey-is-named-poet-laureate.html

Natasha Jones article published in Journal of Technical Writing & Communication

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Natasha Jones on her lead article, "Plain Language in Environmental Policy Documents: An Assessment of Reader Comprehension and Perceptions," in the most recent issue of the Journal of Technical Writing & Communication. The article can be found here:

 http://baywood.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue%2C2%2C9%3Bjournal%2C1%2C166%3Blinkingpublicationresults%2C1%3A300326%2C1

Gloria Larrieu has a new CD Embarcadero

Dr. Gloria Larrieu, who received her Ph.D. from our department and who took a course from Hector Torres, has a new CD entitled Embarcadero, which will be available the first week of December from Bookworks.

Gloria is generously donating 20% of the profits to the Hector Torres Memorial Fund.

Blue Mesa Review floats through Marigold parade

This past weekend, Sunday, November 4, members of the Blue Mesa Review's editorial board and friends participated in Albuquerque's Muertos y Marigolds Parade as part of the city's Día de los Muertos celebration. The theme of BMR's float was "Writers We Have Loved and Lost."

Dead writers in attendance included Willa Cather, Fernando Pessoa, Sylvia Plath, Ismat Chughtai, Emily Dickinson, and the Fitzgeralds. BMR editors enjoyed promoting the literary journal, which will be releasing its 26th issue online in December.