Professor Rajani Sudan has two publications coming out this year: “Stuart Britannia and the Imaging of Empire” in The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (Oxford UP) “Spicy Forests and Amboyna Burl: Dryden and the Ecology of Disaster” in Histories of Science: Rhetoric, Reception, Embodiment, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century eds. David Alff and […]
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Kendall Dinniene, a doctoral candidate and instructor, recently published a peer-reviewed article in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society titled “My heart’s fine as long as my stomach’s not empty: patriarchal horror, women’s excess, and fat liberation in Criminally Insane.” Kendall Dinniene was also accepted to Duke University’s Black Feminist Theory […]
Dr. Lori Ann Stephens has an essay in a feminist anthology on Star Trek Women forthcoming: “Elaan of Elas: Duty and Defiance Aboard the Enterprise.” Women on Trek Women: The Classic Series, Edited by Rich Handley and Summer Brooks, Becky Books, 2024.
Professor Samantha Pergadia has four recent publications: “Slaughterhouse Intimacies” with New Literary History “Finding Your Voice: Author-Read Audiobooks” with Public Books “The Manic Pixie Dream Girl in the Attic” with Los Angeles Review of Books “The Racial and Gendered Work of Cows in Children’s Literature” with American Quarterly
Professor Beth Newman has published two recent articles: “The Secular Messianism of Robert Elsmere: Race, Jewishness, and the ‘New Reformation,’” Victorian Studies 65.1 (Autumn 2022), pp. 93-116 [published in 2023]). “‘So Much Too Little’: Alice Meynell, Walter Pater, and the Question of Influence.” In Joseph Bristow, ed., Extraordinary Aesthetes (Toronto: U of Toronto Press), pp. […]
Southwest Review, SMU’s quarterly literary journal, has been featured by Literary Hub. Professor Greg Brownderville is the Editor-in-Chief of the Southwest Review. It is the third-oldest literary quarterly in the United States.
Professor Greg Brownderville’s projects, Fire Bones and Beekeeper Spaceman, are featured in the new episode of Arts & Letters, which is ranked in the top ten social science podcasts in the world by Feedspot. The episode can be accessed at one of the two links below. UALR Public Radio Apple Podcasts
From CBS 11 News: Ellen Jovin Takes on grammar challenges everywhere. CBS News Texas’ Photojournalist Mike Kinney caught her working on words at the SMU Fondren Library.
Congratulations to Samyak Shertok, Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, for having his poem “A Blessing” published in Poetry, one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. The poem may be found here. The magazine has been published in Chicago since 1912. Publication in Poetry is highly selective and consists of three increasingly […]
Listen on Youtube / Listen on Spotify / Listen on Apple Music / Purchase the vinyl — Like its sprawling hometown of Dallas, Texas, indie rock band Beekeeper Spaceman’s self-titled debut album evokes a collision between bucolic bygones and the urban present. Born out of an online multimedia project called Fire Bones, the duo consists […]