Yaddo.org selected Dr. Sanderia Faye Smith, Assistant Professor of Practice, as the 2023 recipient of The Yvonne Porter Endowed Residency. Awarded every other year to a Texan creative working in any discipline, the residency was established in 2000 by the Louisa Stude Sarofim Charitable Trust to honor Yvonne Porter. Yaddo sponsored residencies underwrite the cost […]
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On the evening of Monday, November 13, graduate students in the PhD English program had the opportunity to hear from four English department faculty about the publishing process. There were four presentations, followed by time for questions from the graduate students: – Dr. Dan Moss, “How to Turn a Talk into an Article” – Dr. […]
On October 26, current graduate students in the Department of English had the opportunity to listen to and learn from three SMU PhD in English alumnae now working outside of academia. The three alumnae discussed topics related to the prompt, “What I Wish I Had Known in Grad School,” particularly how they use their graduate […]
Dedman College News – Samyak Shertok, a Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, has won the 2023 Witness Poetry Prize. Judge Joy Harjo, former Poet Laureate of the United States, writes: “The poem ‘Mother Tongue: A Haunting’ is a tight construction that embodies the haunting of language displacement amidst liminal familial memory. Mysterious essences of ghost presences […]
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Welcome to the Hilltop, Class of 2027!
We hope everyone has a great first week of classes! Pony Up!
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023 Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm Location: Fondren Library, Texana Room 6:30 p.m. – Reception 7:00 p.m. – Program Book signing to follow. Books available for purchase at the event. C.W. Smith’s new story collection, The Museum of Marriage, showcases characters struggling with the demand and mysteries of solitary life, romance and […]
SMU YouTube – SMU is making big investments in technology to advance research and scholarship. Already empowered by Ph.D. fellowships through the Moody School, SMU graduate students also have access to cutting-edge supercomputing capabilities at the Center for Research Computing. Watch how SMU supercomputing is powering the next generation of forward-thinking researchers. Learn more: smu.edu/investingforimpact […]
Dedman College News – At the May 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies (WMU, Kalamazoo MI), the world’s largest medieval conference, SMU faculty member Bonnie Wheeler (English and Medieval Studies) received a multitude of honors for her lifelong contributions to Medieval Studies. First, she was awarded the 2023 Medieval Foremother Prize for her extensive publications […]
Lori Stephens, lecturer in the Department of English, was recently featured in LitTalk: A DFW Author Panel Series to discuss her new novel, Blue Running. Describe Blue Running and a bit of the creative process and inspiration. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. A gun accident killed her best friend, but […]
Sanderia Smith, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of English, recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker called Racial Injustice in response to the victims of police brutality across the country. What inspired you to write Racial Injustice? I wrote this piece, Racial Injustice, because there were so many African American men and women being murdered by the police. […]