“Rebel,” will premiere on PBS, Channel 5, at 10 p.m. Friday, May 24

Actress Romi Dias as Loreta Velázquez/Harry T. Buford
in PBS’ Rebel, premiering Friday



http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2013/05/19/blogs/life-of-secret-female-soldier-on-pbs.html

 Loreta Velázquez has a role in history – and it’s a significant one.

The Cuban immigrant was one of the estimated 1,000 women who secretly served as soldiers during the American Civil War.

Velázquez is the subject of director María Agui Carter’s new film, “Rebel,” which will premiere on PBS, Channel 5, at 10 p.m. Friday, May 24. It’s part of the Voces series.

This film relies on literary and historical scholarship, such as the book by our own Professor Jesse Alemán, based on rich original resources, such as The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velázquez, her 1876 autobiography.

The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Velázquez, Cuban Woman & Confederate Soldier

by Velázquez, Loreta Janeta and Alemán, Jesse

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Agui Carter’s documentary focuses not only on the extraordinary circumstances of Velázquez’s military service, but emphasizes her much more dangerous act — publishing her memoir. The narrative’s importance is theorized by interviews with U.S. Latino literature and history scholars Jesse Alemán and Vicki L. Ruiz, who note that Velázquez’s critique of the Confederacy influenced Civil War print culture and the ideology of the Lost Cause, which cast the Confederates as brave and noble, overcome by sheer force rather than the Union’s superior martial skill. http://sacurrent.com/screens/film/loreta-vel%C3%A1zquez-the-secret-soldier-of-the-civil-war-1.1492420

Andrew Mara wins Peltier Award

R&W PhD Alumnus Andrew Mara, associate professor of English, was acknowledged with the Peltier Award at North Dakota State University.
http://www.ndsu.edu/news/view/article/17242/

The Peltier Award was established by Joseph and Norma Peltier to recognize outstanding innovation in teaching. Mara was nominated by Kevin Brooks, professor and head of the English department.

Brooks noted that Mara gives new media assignments that “challenge, engage and prepare students for 21st century citizenship and workplaces.” He also said Mara practices “public, practice-based pedagogies that result in students engaging with the community” and he provides support and innovation for the department’s online courses.

Mara, who came to NDSU in 2006, earned his doctorate in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of New Mexico.

Oliver Baker Chosen for Newberry Library Summer Seminar

Oliver Baker been chosen to attend the "Competing Narratives: Native American and Indigenous Studies Across Disciplines NCAIS" Summer Institute from July 8 through Aug 2.

This four week summer institute will compare competing narratives as they relate to indigenous studies.The seminar will address the theoretical models produced by various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences in order to engage in comparative analyses. Students from across academic disciplines will engage works of autobiography, literature, history, anthropology, and visual studies among others. Our work will also allow participants to become familiar with the extraordinary resources of the Newberry Library.

The seminar will be led by Prof. Erin Debenport, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico and Dr. Scott Stevens, Director, D’Arcy McNickle Center.

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for March 2013

   American Association for Applied Linguistics, Dallas, TX. March 16-19, 2013.
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri. “Expressing emotions through writing in Thai and English.”
J. V. Jeffery and P. K. Matsuda. “Examining conceptions of voice: An analysis of writing teachers’ constructs and processes.”

   Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV. March 13-16, 2013.
Andrew Bourelle and Tiffany Bourelle. “Digital Environments, Public Writing, and Student Needs: Using Instructional Assistants to Facilitate Learning in Online Classes.”
Genesea Carter. “You Want Me to Write What? Encouraging Working-Class Student Voices through Discourse Analysis.”
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri. “Expressing emotions through narrative: Second language writing perspectives.”
Bethany Davila. “What's Identity Got to Do With It?: Instructors' Talk About Writing and Identity.”
Cristyn Elder. “WPA-GO: A Model for the CWPA Diversity Project?”
Brian Hendrickson. “A Public Affair: The Intermediate Expository Writing Course as Community Writing Center Practicum.”
Mellisa Huffman. “Getting on the Same Page: Using an Ethnolinguistically-Informed Heuristic Within Collaborative Writing Situations.”
Lindsey Ives. Panel Participant. “’Basic’ Writers, ‘Multilingual’ Writers, and ‘Mainstream’ Writers: the Contested Terms of Transitional Writing from the Student Perspective.”
J. V. Jeffery. “Rethinking secondary-postsecondary writing transitions in a time of Common Core Standards: What FYC instructors need to know about new high school writing standards.”
Anna V. Knutson. “Digital Bridges: Negotiating Metacognition in a Digital Lanscape.”
Charles Paine. Panel Participant. “The CWPA Diversity Project.”
Todd Ruecker. Panel Participant. “The Public Work Ahead of WPAs: Developing Effective Programs for Linguistically Diverse Students and Multilingual Writers in Transition: Improving Cross-Institutional Agreements and Collaborations.”

   TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo. Dallas, TX. March 22, 2013.
Cristyn Elder. “Implementing the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing with Multilingual Writers.”
J. V. Jeffery and P. K. Matsuda.”Voice in secondary and postsecondary rubrics.”

   Medieval Association of the Pacific. University of San Diego. March 21-23, 2013.
Megan Abrahamson. “Sir Gary-Stu”: Le Morte D’Arthur as Malory’s Self-Insert Fan-Fiction.”
Justin Brock. “A Dual Remedy for the Chaos of Babel: Examining John Trevisa’s Dialogue Between a Lord and a Clerk On Translation and Late Medieval English Vernacular Culture.”
Justin Brock. Session Chair. Medieval Manuscript Studies.
Emilee Howland-Davis. “Morgan le Fey: Sister, Savior, Sorceress.”
Anita Obermeier. “Henry II’s and Cunegund’s Sanctity: Chastity or Disability?”
Anita Obermeier. Session Chair. Saints and Mystics.
Anita Obermeier presided over the entire conference as president of MAP.
Doaa Omran. “The Correspondences of Princess Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī: a Medieval Harlot, Muse and Poet.”

Cristyn Elder, Dan Cryer, Beth Davila, Lindsey Ives, and Charles Paine. “Creating and Assessing Locally-Responsive Student Learning Outcomes.” New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM. March 1, 2013.

Natasha Jones. “Re-imagining Technical Communication as Activism.” Association for Teachers of Technical Writing, Las Vegas, NV. March 13, 2012.

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.

Luci Tapahonso honored as Navajo Nation Poet Laureate

After having put on the wonderful "My Favorite Poem" celebration in honor of Poetry Month, sponsored by IAIA and the UNM English Department, Luci Tapahonso has been named the first Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation. Congratulations on another kudo in your long list of awards and recognitions!

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/30/luci-tapahonso-named-navajo-nations-first-poet-laureate-149114#.UYExxhj5o3Q.email

Dan Cryer and Lindsey Ives Garner OGS Awards

Dan Cryer is a recipient for the OGS Future Faculty Award. The Future Faculty Grant awards up to $2,000.00 for summer coursework, research, or professional development opportunities directly related to preparing the nominee for a career in higher education. The award supports educational, research, or professional development opportunities not normally available as part of the student’s degree program. Dan received this award to participate in the 2013 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute as well as to do research in the archive of the Foundation of Aldo Leopold for his dissertation, "Inventing the Citizen: Narratives of the Vita Activa in Aldo Leopold's Conservation Rhetorics."

Lindsey Ives is a recipient of the OGS Graduate Research Supplement. The Graduate Research Supplement awards up to $2,000.00 to facilitate completion of the MFA or PhD dissertation. These awards support direct expenses incurred for archival or field research. This summer Lindsey will conduct research in Mississippi and Tennessee for her dissertation "Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer."