The Department of English is excited to announce its annual writing and teaching awards went to four exceptional graduate students during the 2024-2025 academic year. The Michael Pueppke Writing Prize honors an outstanding essay by a graduate student in SMU’s Ph.D. program in English Literature. This year’s winner is Emily Snyder’s essay “I Shall Finish […]
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English and theatre undergraduate student Sofia Kirk has been selected as a 2025 Maguire Public Service Fellow. The Maguire Ethics Center’s Public Service Fellowship—made possible in part by the Irby Family Foundation—empowers SMU students to spend over 200 hours during the summer contributing to public service or ethics research with organizations of their choice. The […]
SMU undergraduate student Anna Lena Adams has been awarded the Stella Porter scholarship from the Lakeside Browning Club. This club awards this annual scholarship, named in Porter’s honor, to female undergraduate students in the arts and humanities in the Dallas area. Join us in congratulating Anna Lena Adams!
PhD Students Lindsey McClure and Kaleigh Langston presented at the Dickens Conference at UCLA. Lindsey McClure presented a paper titled “Maids and Monsters: Sleeping (and Waking) Beauties in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” and Kaleigh Langston presented a paper titled “Suffering with Self-Respect: Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy in Austen’s Mansfield Park.”
Dr. Stephanie Amsel has been accepted into the prestigious Visiting Artists and Scholars Program at the American Academy in Rome this summer where she will conduct field research for her forthcoming book with Palgrave Macmillan. Join us in congratulating Dr. Amsel!
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2025 Honorary Degree Symposium
Please join the SMU Community as we cordially invite you to the Honorary Degree Symposium featuring a conversation with 2025 Honorary Degree recipient Dr. Ruth Simmons Distinguished education leader Dr. Ruth Simmons will join us for a conversation moderated by local writer Charlise Lyles to discuss Dr. Simmons’s critically acclaimed memoir, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey […]
SMU Speech and Debate won exceptional honors this week in Houston at the IPDA National Debate Championship, conducted among 40+ colleges and universities and 300+ undergraduate debate competitors. Hyer Society Member, Finance major and Data Science minor Eric Ryan (’25) won the national title for top speaker in the varsity division. Evaluators awarded him the […]
Sebastian Paramo, author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023), was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. Each year, the Texas Institute of Letters awards authors and poets who are Texas locals or whose writing substantially concerns Texas for their exemplary writing. Congratulations, […]
Elijah Hook presented “Unreadability and Other Mercies: Practices of Narrative Withholding in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy” at MELUS 2024 in April and, the following week, presented “’First I got myself born’: Pro/Retrospection in Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead“ at the Narrative Conference in Newcastle, UK. MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the […]
Vincent Mennella presented “Volpone Vindicated by the Alchemist at Court: Ben Jonson’s Alchemies of Material Wealth” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Toronto. The Sixteenth Century Society hosts an annual conference for multidisciplinary work dedicated to the study of the early modern era (ca. 1450-1750).