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Event: April 5, Long Stories Cut Short – A Reading and Book Signing

A reading and book signing with author Fredrick Luis Aldama. Sponsored by The Creative Writing Program and the SMU Department of English, Southwest Review; Red Pegasus Comics

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Willard Spiegelman leaves Dallas a lovely parting gift with ‘If You See Something, Say Something’

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: March 1, 2017 The word is out: Willard Spiegelman, Southern Methodist University’s distinguished Hughes Professor of English, is selling his Dallas condo and moving full time to New York and Connecticut. Spiegelman —  author, editor, educator, raconteur — has also long been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and […]

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Gilbert Lecture Series presents lecture on environmental literature and criticism

SMU News Originally Posted: February 7, 2017 Can designer ecosystems compensate for ecological loss? This talk examines new media projects inspired by this question. Heather Houser, an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect Columbia UP, 2014), which won the 2015 Association for […]

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Memorial Service for Marshall Terry, Jr. to be held Friday, Jan. 20

A Memorial Service celebrating the life of Marshall Terry, Jr. will be held on Friday, January 20, at 1:00 pm in Perkins Chapel.  A reception will be held at the Meadows Museum immediately following the service. Memorial gifts may be made in support of The Marsh Terry Creative Writing Scholarship Endowment Fund by sending checks […]

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Greg Brownderville, English, How an SMU Poet Straddles America’s Cultural Divide

D Magazine Originally Posted: January 2017 A few days after the November presidential election, I meet the poet Greg Brownderville for a coffee near the campus of SMU, where he teaches poetry and runs the Southwest Review, the century-old quarterly literary journal. We are here to discuss Brownderville’s latest volume of poetry, A Horse With Holes in […]

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Willard Spiegelman, English, new book Senior Moments included in a list of recommended holiday reading by writers over 50

The Berkshire Eagle Originally Posted: December 17, 2016 ‘Tis the season for well-meaning younger people to offer advice to elders who, they fear, are sad or uninterested in the holidays. The blog Senior Care Corner claims that one geriatric specialist, worrying about senior depression, said, “I wish they would cancel December.” True, the winter holidays […]

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Save the Date: Nov. 3. Lecture and Book Signing with Willard Spiegelman.

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A Career Panel: What Can You Do with the English Major?

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Looking back and moving ahead with SMU’s Willard Spiegelman

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: September 16, 2016 Every day he taught a class at Southern Methodist University, Willard Spiegelman wore a bow tie and a jacket. Every day in every class he taught, students were expect to write. For 45 years, it was this way. On a Friday afternoon in early September, Spiegelman wears […]

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Laugh and learn with Willard Spiegelman’s ‘Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead’

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: September 2, 2016 At this point in my life, after more than 40 years as a journalist and writer, I just want to be with people, and that includes authors, who can teach me something or make me laugh. Willard Spiegelman, Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, does […]