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, […]
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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 […]
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, […]
Samantha Mabry recently published her book, Clever Creatures of the Night, with Algonquin Young Readers. In this gripping literary horror, Case’s best friend goes missing, forcing her into a bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murderous—world, perfect for fans of The Honeys and Mexican Gothic. Praise for Clever Creatures of the Night: “Mabry’s blend of gritty realism and […]
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 […]
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 […]
PhD student Kendall Dinniene has recently had an essay accepted to a volume edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Mishana Garschi. Kendall’s essay considers correspondence between Audre Lorde and Sharon Paige Ritchie, an early member of the Combahee River Collective. Congratulations, Kendall!
Triauna Carey recently published her book, The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music as a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance, with Lexington Books. Carey’s book investigates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance. Case studies across the genres of popular music in the West are surveyed throughout […]