Rosanne Brooks presented “Trance Gender: Automatic Writing, Spirit Mediums, and Gender Fluidity,” at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference this past March. She also presented “’This thing that turns and trips’: Arthur Symons’s Poetics of the Music Hall” at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association’s Conference in April.
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Emily Snyder published a review of Anthony Macías’s Chicano-Chicana Americana in MELUS. She also was awarded a grant to attend and present her paper “The Artes of Logike and Rethorike: Dudley Fenner’s 16th Century Educational Reform” at the 2024 Ramus Symposium in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
Dr. Christopher González has been elected president of MELUS, a distinguished academic organization dedicated to the study, preservation, and promotion of multi-ethnic US literature. MELUS strives to engage in interdisciplinary perspectives to deepen the understanding of multi-ethnic narratives and their cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. As president, Christopher González will lead the organization in its […]
Dr. Katie Condon received the prestigious 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. This fellowship enables the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career development. Dr. Condon was chosen as one of 35 recipients out of over 2000 eligible applications. Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, […]
Spring Degree Recognition Ceremony: May 11, 2024
Join us in the Moody Coliseum or live on YouTube this Saturday at 5:30 PM to watch as we honor graduating students from Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. No tickets required! Congratulations to the Class of 2024!
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.
Clements fellow Sean Harvey’s article appeared in Modern American History this May. Sean began work on this essay which examines how labor unions in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands used racial stereotypes and Cold War paranoias to influence certification for those applying for a work visa to enter the U.S. while he was in residence during his […]
Lake Highlands Advocate Dr. Clive Siegle, a professor at Richland College, received his PhD in history at SMU. If you’ve ever whizzed around White Rock Skate, taken a dip in the K.C. Pool or dropped off a car for repairs at Northlake Automotive, you’ve been directly in the bull’s eye of Dallas history. Thanks to […]
Eiteljorg Museum – On April 20-23, the Eiteljorg welcomed scholars from around the United States to our museum. The scholars participated in a symposium on the theme “Religion and the American West,” co-sponsored by the Clements Center for Southwestern Studies at Southern Methodist University, and the Eiteljorg. Located in Dallas, Texas, the Clements Center holds […]
Clement Center fellow Sean Harvey writes op-ed in Washington Post. Washington Post – Consumers may soon see the label “Made in China” replaced by a tag that reads “Made in Mexico.” The New York Times has reported on an increase in companies relocating their manufacturing operations from major industrial centers in Asia to industrial parks in […]