Park Cities People Originally Posted: March 6, 2015 One of my all-time favorite professors, Willard Spiegelman, will receive the sixth annual SMU Literati Award. That’s an award specifically for people who have “used the written word to advance the ideals of creativity, conviction, innovation, and scholarship.” Past recipients include Laura Bush in 2011 and SMU’s […]
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CBS DFW Originally Published: March 6, 2015 DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – They are marching back in history to mark a major milestone. Students from Southern Methodist University loaded into buses Friday and set off — bound for Selma, Alabama. They know it will be an emotional trip and it’s one they’ve planned for more than a […]
Dallas Morning News- Arts Blog Posted: March 5, 2015 On a frosty late-winter morning, it’s good to be able to focus on the harbingers of spring. Southern Methodist University’s Litfest may be just such a harbinger. The annual festival, which has an excellent record of bringing in rising literary stars, takes place March 19-21. The […]
SMU’s Department of Residence Life and Student Housing honored 45 exceptional University educators, 26 Dedman College professors, at the 2015 HOPE Awards Banquet. HOPE (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Award recipients are named through student staff member nominations as professors who “have made a significant impact to our academic education both inside and outside of the […]
Dallas Morning News Dallas groups will be busy this week leading local activities to coincide with the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala. Commemorations in Selma began this week. They will peak Sunday with a re-enactment of the Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing and will continue through March 21. This month’s activities recall events […]
Wall Street Journal Originally Posted: Feb 18, 2015 The City of Brotherly Love is having an affair with Oscar Wilde. This historic bastion of Quakerism, the butt of jokes from the likes of W.C. Fields, has embraced the flamboyant gay spokesman for decadence, aestheticism, wit and suffering. READ MORE
Dallas Morning News Arts Blog Originally Posted: Jan. 20, 2015 Ezra Greenspan, a professor at Southern Methodist University, has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award in biography for William Wells Brown: An African American Life. He’ll be competing against another author with Dallas ties, S.C. Gwynne, a former Dallas Morning News writer […]
KERA Originally Posted: January 7, 2015 A Voice For Civil Rights William Wells Brown was one of the most important American literary figures of the 19th Century, publishing everything from novels to plays to travelogues. This hour, we’ll get to know the man who left slavery behind and became a leading voice for civil rights […]
Congratulations to Lecturer of English, Sam Ross Sloan! In this the Year of the Faculty, SMU students voted for professors they feel are exceptional and inspiring. The winners were honored with a surprise visit from our beloved mascot Peruna in recognition of their outstanding work. Watch the Video.