Sebastian Paramo, author of Portrait of Us Burning (Curbstone Books, 2023), was named a finalist for the 2023 Best First Book of Poetry by the Texas Institute of Letters. Each year, the Texas Institute of Letters awards authors and poets who are Texas locals or whose writing substantially concerns Texas for their exemplary writing. Congratulations […]
PhD student Kendall Dinniene has recently had an essay accepted to a volume edited by Jennifer C. Nash and Mishana Garschi. Kendall’s essay considers correspondence between Audre Lorde and Sharon Paige Ritchie, an early member of the Combahee River Collective. Congratulations, Kendall!
Triauna Carey recently published her book, The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music as a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance, with Lexington Books. Carey’s book investigates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance. Case studies across the genres of popular music in the West are surveyed throughout […]
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.
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, […]
DALLAS (SMU) – Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, a dynamic university leader and chemistry researcher, is SMU’s new Elisabeth Martin Armstrong Dean of Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. Jayawickramarajah joins SMU from Tulane University, where he is senior associate dean of academic affairs and professor of chemistry at its School of Science and Engineering. “Dr. Jayawickramarajah brings […]
Lindsey McClure is a member of the 2024 MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program. This competitive program places twelve graduate students who are interested in public humanities scholarship with mentors who aid them with their projects. Lindsey will be presenting her work, titled “Victorian Ghosts and Me,” this January at MLA.
Ally Barber published a review of Jose O. Fernandez’s Against Marginalization with MELUS. Her article “‘I’m leaving evidence’: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” is forthcoming in MELUS. She also presented “‘Vendido sanavabiche!’: La Malinche in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero and Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez” at MELUS 2024 […]