Kendall Dinniene, a PhD student in the English Department, has been selected for the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute’s inaugural Graduate Student Summer Research and Writing Fellowship Program. Dinniene will be using the $3,000 grant to visit the Audre Lorde and Lucille Clifton archives in Atlanta this summer.
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The Frontera Literary Festival and Prof. Greg Brownderville are featured in D Magazine.
A reminder that we’re excited to hold our final Hughes Creative Writing Fellows’ Craft Conversation of the year, between the Belarusian poet and translator Valzhyna Mort and our own Samyak Shertok, at 5:00 on Wednesday, April 3, in the Texana Room of Fondren Library. We’ll be having the reception after the event rather than before […]
Kendall Dinniene, PhD student in the English graduate program, has been awarded the Moody School’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instruction Award. The statement of award cites the thoughtfulness and dedication to the craft of teaching that Dinniene has demonstrated both in the classroom and through the Center for Teaching Excellence. The award included a $1,000 prize […]
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Dedman College Faculty and Staff Mixer
Date: Thurs. April 11, 2024 Time: 4-7 p.m. Location: Lumen Hotel (6101 Hillcrest Ave.) All Dedman College faculty and staff welcome. Click here to RSVP by 6pm on Monday, April 8.
Samantha Mabry, Lecturer in the Writing and Reasoning program, has a fourth novel for young adults, Clever Creatures of the Night (Algonquin/Hachette) that will release on Tuesday, March 5. Mabry is also having an official launch event at Interabang Books on Wednesday, March 13 at 6 p.m., where she will be in conversation with Vanessa […]
Professor Christopher González published Big Scary Brown Guy: A Memoir. “American manhood is in crisis, and Latino men all the more so. Fortunately, Christopher González dives into the task head and heart first. His voice is unique, at once humble, courageous and enviably self-assured. Bypass this memoir at your own peril–and ours.” -Ilan Stavans, author […]
SMU Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing Samyak Shertok, featured in People Newspapers, provides writing tips for love poems: https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/2024/02/13/need-a-last-minute-valentines-poem-smu-has-you-covered/ Shertok was also picked up by Axios Dallas for his Valentine tips: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-dallas-52160fe0-caab-11ee-9eca-3fd44ac92779.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_dallas&stream=top
Dr. Will Roudabush, Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow, published the following essay: “‘This is and is not Cressid’”: Seeing Double in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.” Shakespeare Bulletin 41:2, Summer 2023. 223-246.