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.

Dan Mueller's new book is awarded 1st runner up for Santa Fe Writers' Project Fiction Prize

Dan Mueller's Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey was awarded first runner up for the 2013 Santa Fe Writers' Project Fiction Prize.  The link for the announcement is www.sfwp.com/2013-winners-fiction/. Bravo, Dan!

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.

Annarose Fitzgerald presents her paper "Gentle Jesus in the Sauce Tureen," Thursday, October 3

This is just a reminder that Annarose Fitzgerald will be presenting her paper, "'Gentle Jesus in the Sauce Tureen': Mina Loy and the Necessity of the Material" Thursday, October 3, in the Student Union Building, Luminaria room, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm.
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.

Greg Martin speaks on Memory, Emulation and Influence and the Art of Memoir on October 8 in Hum. 324

UNM English Department

invites you to our 2nd Colloquium of the Fall

Gregory Martin

Associate Professor

UNM Department of English Language & Literature

Director, BA/MD Program

"Memory, Emulation and Influence and the Art of Memoir"

Memory is not a story, but a blur out of the corner of the mind’s eye. To make a story out of memory requires amplification, emphasis, speculation. Credibility problems are part of the enterprise, and many memoirists take on memory, itself, as one of their thematic preoccupations--its strange workings and elusiveness and unreliability. In his talk and reading, Professor Martin will discuss some memoirists he admires (Mary Karr, Tobias Wolff, Vladimir Nabokov, William Maxwell, WG Sebald) and their influence on his recent memoir STORIES FOR BOYS.  

Please Join Us

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

12:30 p.m.

English Department Library

Humanities Building, Room 324

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.”

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.