Kendall Dinniene, PhD student in the English graduate program, has been awarded the Moody School’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instruction Award. The statement of award cites the thoughtfulness and dedication to the craft of teaching that Dinniene has demonstrated both in the classroom and through the Center for Teaching Excellence. The award included a $1,000 prize […]
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Dedman College Faculty and Staff Mixer
Date: Thurs. April 11, 2024 Time: 4-7 p.m. Location: Lumen Hotel (6101 Hillcrest Ave.) All Dedman College faculty and staff welcome. Click here to RSVP by 6pm on Monday, April 8.
Samantha Mabry, Lecturer in the Writing and Reasoning program, has a fourth novel for young adults, Clever Creatures of the Night (Algonquin/Hachette) that will release on Tuesday, March 5. Mabry is also having an official launch event at Interabang Books on Wednesday, March 13 at 6 p.m., where she will be in conversation with Vanessa […]
Professor Christopher González published Big Scary Brown Guy: A Memoir. “American manhood is in crisis, and Latino men all the more so. Fortunately, Christopher González dives into the task head and heart first. His voice is unique, at once humble, courageous and enviably self-assured. Bypass this memoir at your own peril–and ours.” -Ilan Stavans, author […]
SMU Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing Samyak Shertok, featured in People Newspapers, provides writing tips for love poems: https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/2024/02/13/need-a-last-minute-valentines-poem-smu-has-you-covered/ Shertok was also picked up by Axios Dallas for his Valentine tips: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-dallas-52160fe0-caab-11ee-9eca-3fd44ac92779.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_dallas&stream=top
Vincent Menella, PhD candidate, recently received the following awards: The International Spenser Society’s Anne Lake Prescott Graduate Student Travel Grant The Renaissance Society of America’s Graduate Student Travel Grant
Dr. Will Roudabush, Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow, published the following essay: “‘This is and is not Cressid’”: Seeing Double in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.” Shakespeare Bulletin 41:2, Summer 2023. 223-246.
Dr. Samyak Shertok, Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, has been honored with the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize 2023 and has also published several poems: “A Blessing”: Poetry (Jan/Feb 2024) “One Hundred and Eight Doors”: The Kenyon Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2024) “Song in a Time of Revolution: A Ghazabun”: The Kenyon Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2024) “X”: […]
Piggy Bank, Professor Jacob Rubin’s debut collection of poetry, was recently put out by Gold Wake Press. https://goldwake.com/books/piggy-bank/
Professor Katie Condon Hermes was recently honored with two fellowships and has also recently published poems in American Poetry Review: 2023-2024 MacDowell Fellow 2023 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Poetry Fellow Two Poems in American Poetry Review, Vol. 52, No. 5