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Southwest Review featured on Literary Hub

Southwest Review, SMU’s quarterly literary journal, has been featured by Literary Hub. Professor Greg Brownderville is the Editor-in-Chief of the Southwest Review. It is the third-oldest literary quarterly in the United States.

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Faculty projects featured in world-renowned social science podcast

Professor Greg Brownderville’s projects, Fire Bones and Beekeeper Spaceman, are featured in the new episode of Arts & Letters, which is ranked in the top ten social science podcasts in the world by Feedspot. The episode can be accessed at one of the two links below. UALR Public Radio Apple Podcasts

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Ellen Jovin’s Grammar Table Visits SMU!

From CBS 11 News: Ellen Jovin Takes on grammar challenges everywhere. CBS News Texas’ Photojournalist Mike Kinney caught her working on words at the SMU Fondren Library.

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Event Recap: “What I Wish I Had Known in Grad School” Alumni Panel

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 […]

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Samyak Shertok awarded 2023 Witness Poetry Prize

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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C.W. Smith Lecture and Book Signing on August 24

Date: Thursday, August 24, 2023 Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm Location: Fondren Library, Texana Room 6:30 p.m. – Reception 7:00 p.m. – Program Book signing to follow. Books available for purchase at the event. C.W. Smith’s new story collection, The Museum of Marriage, showcases characters struggling with the demand and mysteries of solitary life, romance and […]

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Bonnie Wheeler receives Singular Praise

Dedman College News – At the May 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies (WMU, Kalamazoo MI), the world’s largest medieval conference, SMU faculty member Bonnie Wheeler (English and Medieval Studies) received a multitude of honors for her lifelong contributions to Medieval Studies. First, she was awarded the 2023 Medieval Foremother Prize for her extensive publications […]

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Department of English faculty member pens a new novel

Lori Stephens, lecturer in the Department of English, was recently featured in LitTalk: A DFW Author Panel Series to discuss her new novel, Blue Running.  Describe Blue Running and a bit of the creative process and inspiration. Fourteen-year-old Bluebonnet Andrews is on the run across the Republic of Texas. A gun accident killed her best friend, but […]

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English faculty member writes in response to police brutality

Sanderia Smith, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of English, recently wrote a piece for The New Yorker called Racial Injustice in response to the victims of police brutality across the country. What inspired you to write Racial Injustice? I wrote this piece, Racial Injustice, because there were so many African American men and women being murdered by the police. […]

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Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

LitHub – A story published in Southwest Review​ has won the O. Henry, a major literary prize. Congratulations to Rodrigo Blanco Calderón for “The Mad People of Paris,”and translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead. Read the full article in Lit Hub.