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Recent Presentations from PhD Student Rosanne Brooks

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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PhD Student Emily Snider Presents at the Ramus Symposium and Publishes Book Review in MELUS

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.

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Two PhD Students, Lindsey McClure and Ally Barber, Awarded DCII Research Cluster Grant

Through their work with the ERAH Graduate Student Conference, PhD students Ally Barber and Lindsey McClure were awarded a DCII Research Cluster Grant. This grant is awarded to SMU faculty and PhD students seeking collaborative research initiatives at SMU. Congrats Ally and Lindsey!

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PhD Student Kendall Dinniene Attended Duke University’s Summer Institute

This summer, Kendall Dinniene attended Duke University’s Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute. Duke hosts this summer institute for graduate students to engage with faculty and their peers on similar intellectual interests. The theme for this institute was ‘Home.’

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PhD Student Philip Bax Presents at MELUS Conference

Philip Bax presented a paper entitled “Portrait of the Artist as a ‘Root Man’: Depictions of Conjure and the Rhetoric of Romantic Racialism in the Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass” at MELUS’s annual conference in Dallas this past April. MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, aims to expand the […]

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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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Humanities Ph.D. students invited to Academic Writing Workshop

Sign up for “Academic Writing for the Public: A Workshop for Humanities Ph.D. Students” here.

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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.