New Year’s with George Washington: Despair and DefianceNew research by SMU professor Alexis McCrossen reveals how New Year’s Day marked critical moments of resolve, leadership and renewal in George Washington’s life. The article draws from McCrossen’s forthcoming book, How the New Year Became the Time of Your Life: A History, which explores how Americans have […]
Washington, DC – Avshalom M. Schwartz, assistant professor of political science at Southern Methodist University, has been honored as a term member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. Term membership, which extends for five years, is awarded to early-to-mid-career scholars in recognition of outstanding scholarly achievement. Term members were recognized during the investiture ceremony […]
SMU Earth Sciences professor Stephen Arrowsmith and the University’s geophysics team have developed pocket-sized “Sapphire” microbarometers that can detect low-frequency atmospheric waves traveling thousands of miles—signals from distant earthquakes, ocean waves, volcanic activity, and more. By scaling production of these small, inexpensive sensors, SMU researchers are opening new possibilities for large-scale infrasound and seismic experiments. […]
When COVID-19 closed physical laboratories, SMU doctoral student Juliana Rodriguez Antonio made a decision that would reshape her career. Unable to conduct hands-on experiments, she switched to computer modeling, a move that has led to research on how protein modifications could improve our understanding of enzyme design. Antonio’s most recent findings, published in a celebratory […]
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.”
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 […]
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).
Kendall Dinniene’s article, “Wounding the Heteropatriarchy: Queered and Disabled Histories in Caballero and Forgetting the Alamo,” has been accepted for publication in Studies in American Fiction. Her article argues that two key works of Chicana fiction demonstrate the ways that disability and queerness are mutually constitutive as well as important features of early Mexican American […]