Lindsey McClure is a member of the 2024 MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program. This competitive program places twelve graduate students who are interested in public humanities scholarship with mentors who aid them with their projects. Lindsey will be presenting her work, titled “Victorian Ghosts and Me,” this January at MLA.
Category: Dedman College Research
Ally Barber published a review of Jose O. Fernandez’s Against Marginalization with MELUS. Her article “‘I’m leaving evidence’: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” is forthcoming in MELUS. She also presented “‘Vendido sanavabiche!’: La Malinche in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero and Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez” at MELUS 2024 […]
Through their work with the ERAH Graduate Student Conference, PhD students Ally Barber and Lindsey McClure were awarded a DCII Research Cluster Grant. This grant is awarded to SMU faculty and PhD students seeking collaborative research initiatives at SMU. Congrats Ally and Lindsey!
This summer, Kendall Dinniene attended Duke University’s Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute. Duke hosts this summer institute for graduate students to engage with faculty and their peers on similar intellectual interests. The theme for this institute was ‘Home.’
Pauline Newton’s 2014 article “Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim” will be reprinted by University of Mississippi Press. In addition, Dr. Newton’s article “Collecting Seeds of Destiny in Li-Young Lee’s The Wing Seed: A Remembrance” will soon be reprinted by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Finally, Dr. Newton’s review of The Postcolonial Millenium: […]
Philip Bax presented a paper entitled “Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Root Man’: Depictions of Conjure and the Rhetoric of Romantic Racialism in the Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass” at MELUS’s annual conference in Dallas this past April. MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, aims to expand the […]
Elijah Hook was awarded the 2024 Pueppke Prize for outstanding graduate student writing with his essay “Gutting the Sonnet: Jericho Brown’s Duplex and the Poetics of Renovation.” Congrats Elijah!
Professor Christopher González recently appeared on two podcasts, sharing insights from his collegiate athletic career and his literary expertise. On Talk’n Throws Podcast, he reflected on his years as a shot putter, and on the Project Narrative Podcast, he discussed Junot Díaz’s recent work of flash fiction, The Books of Losing You, with Prof. James […]
Samyak Shertok, a Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing from 2022-2024, has been awarded the prestigious Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, a remarkable recognition within the poetry community. This national award, which is part of the Association of Writers & Writing Program’s Award Series, celebrates exceptional emerging poets, and Samyak’s achievement is a testament to the […]
Click here to read a feature in the Dallas Observer highlighting Professor Sanderia Faye’s career and role as a “champion community builder” of Dallas’ literary scene.