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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 […]

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PhD Student Elijah Hook Presents at MELUS and the Narrative Conference

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 […]

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PhD Student Vincent Mennella Presents at Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Toronto

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).

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PhD Student Kendall Dinniene’s Article Accepted for Publication

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 […]

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Article Accepted for Publication from PhD Student Macklin Fanning

PhD Student Macklin Fanning recently had an article accepted for publication in The Journal of Literature and Science, titled “What is a Philosophical Quixote?” The Journal of Literature and Science publishes academic essays on the subject of literature and science, broadly defined, in all periods of literary and artistic history since the Scientific Revolution. Congratulations, […]

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Recent Article Publication by PhD Student Vincent Mennella

Vincent Mennella’s article, “Vexed Relationships with Rome: Arthur’s Dragon Crest and Spenser’s Representations of Conquest, Empire, and Christendom in The Faerie Queene,” was recently published by Explorations in Renaissance Culture, a multidisciplinary journal of early modern studies. An earlier version of this project was presented at the Renaissance Society of America’s 2023 meeting in San […]

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Dr. Katie Condon Receives National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship

Dr. Katie Condon received the prestigious 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. This fellowship enables the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career development. Dr. Condon was chosen as one of 35 recipients out of over 2000 eligible applications. Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, […]

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PhD Student Lindsey McClure Participates in MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program

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.

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Recent Publication and Presentations from PhD Student Ally Barber

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 […]

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Two PhD Students, Lindsey McClure and Ally Barber, Awarded DCII Research Cluster Grant

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!