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 […]
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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 […]
Publishers Weekly has recognized SMU’s Project Poëtica and Bridwell Library’s combined publishing initiative that begins in 2025. This initiative was built out of a desire to “support poetic careers and broaden the culture’s notion of creativity beyond a single author.” They will open three editorial lines that will focus on collaborative works, works by poets […]
Jonathan Malesic’s guest essay “There’s a Very Good Reason College Students Don’t Read Anymore” was published in The New York Times on October 25, 2024. In his piece, Malesic argues that the decline in college students’ reading habits reflects a broader societal shift where success is increasingly tied to marketability and “vibes” rather than intellectual […]
The Southwest Review recently published an interview with the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, author Annie Ernaux. Read her conversation with Alison L. Strayer on Southwest Review‘s website.
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.
At the end of the spring semester, the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, in conjunction with the SMU English department, hosted the inaugural Academic Writing for the Public Workshop. From May 20th to May 23rd, PhD students in the humanities learned how to frame their scholarly pursuits for the public and received focused […]
Kendall Dinniene, a PhD student in English, has an article forthcoming in Ethnic Studies Review titled “A Sensual People, and Doomed: Anti-Fatness and/as Anti-Mexican Racism in America’s First Mass Medium.”