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Dallas Observer highlights Professor Sanderia Faye’s work in building Dallas’ literary community

Click here to read a feature in the Dallas Observer highlighting Professor Sanderia Faye’s career and role as a “champion community builder” of Dallas’ literary scene.

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Academic Writing for the Public: A Workshop for Humanities Ph.D. Students

At the end of the spring semester, the Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, in conjunction with the SMU English department, hosted the inaugural Academic Writing for the Public Workshop. From May 20th to May 23rd, PhD students in the humanities learned how to frame their scholarly pursuits for the public and received focused […]

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PhD student awarded grant, DCII summer fellowship

Lindsey McClure, 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. She was awarded a $3,000 grant in support of her research. Congratulations, Lindsey!

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PhD student named fellow for LA summer publishing workshop

Congratulations to Kendall Dinniene, PhD student in English, who has been selected as a fellow for the Los Angeles Review of Books’ summer publishing workshop.

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English PhD student earns inaugural DCII Student Summer Research and Writing Fellowship

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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Hughes Creative Writing Fellows’ Craft Conversation

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 […]

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PhD student Kendall Dinniene honored with Moody Graduate Student Instruction Award

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.

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Recent publications from prize-winning Hughes Fellow Samyak Shertok

Dr. Samyak Shertok, Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, has been honored with the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize 2023 and has also published several poems: “A Blessing”: Poetry (Jan/Feb 2024) “One Hundred and Eight Doors”: The Kenyon Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2024) “Song in a Time of Revolution: A Ghazabun”: The Kenyon Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2024) “X”: […]

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Recent publications and editorial work from Professor Darryl Dickson-Carr

In Fall 2022 and Spring 2023, Professor Darryl Dickson-Carr edited the following: Guest Co-editor, Studies in American Humor. Special issue: Black Comedy Matters. Fall 2022. Guest Editor, ADE/ADFL Bulletin. Special Issue on Public Humanities, 159 (2022; published Spring 2023). Professor Dickson-Carr recently published the following: Dickson-Carr, Darryl. “What It Takes: How to Develop Academic Leadership.” […]