Congratulations to Samyak Shertok, Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, for having his poem “A Blessing” published in Poetry, one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. The poem may be found here. The magazine has been published in Chicago since 1912. Publication in Poetry is highly selective and consists of three increasingly […]
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Listen on Youtube / Listen on Spotify / Listen on Apple Music / Purchase the vinyl — Like its sprawling hometown of Dallas, Texas, indie rock band Beekeeper Spaceman’s self-titled debut album evokes a collision between bucolic bygones and the urban present. Born out of an online multimedia project called Fire Bones, the duo consists […]
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 […]
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 […]
• The Department of Earth Sciences invites applications to a fully endowed professorship named in honor of C.W. Matthews to be filled at the Associate or Full Professor level. We are seeking applicants who conduct innovative, interdisciplinary and quantitative research programs across all fields of geology. Please visit this site for additional information and to […]
Forbes Scientists using data from Chinese lunar orbiters have discovered what they think is a mass of granite 30 miles wide deep under the surface of the moon. Located under the moon’s far side, it’s unlike anything found before. Presented today at the at the Goldschmidt Conferencein Lyon, France, a paper has also been published […]
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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Dallas Morning News Matt Siegler, a planetary scientist at SMU, was digging into old data to figure out how hot it is under the moon’s surface when he came upon something surprising: evidence of a massive, ancient volcano. The moon has always sparked the human imagination — the first known story of explorers landing on […]