Tag: Steven Schwartz
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News of Note Weeks of October 22 and 29
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Read More: News of Note Weeks of October 22 and 29Ricki Ginsberg was elected President-Elect of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN). She will be organizing the 2020 ALAN Workshop, which will involve 80+ young adult authors. The Last Panther, by Todd Mitchell, won a 2018 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Todd…
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News of Note Week of September 10 and 17
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 10 and 17Harrison Candelaria Fletcher had a couple of image-text lyric essays accepted for publication: “A Place She Goes” at Muse/A Journal and “Water for Roots” for the inaugural issue of Robin Hemley’s new journal, Speculative Nonfiction, where Candelaria Fletcher will serve as a contributing editor. Speculative Nonfiction should be up and…
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News of Note Week of October 2
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 2There’s a short interview with Dan Beachy-Quick up at the New England Review’s website about the poem they recently published, “Memory-Wax, Knowledge-Bird”: http://www.nereview.com/category/behind-the-byline/. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang (MFA ’07) recently gave three readings in Utah, courtesy of the Utah Humanities Book Festival, and its Director, Michael McLane (MFA ’08)-one at…
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News of Note Week of March 27
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Read More: News of Note Week of March 27Matthew Cooperman currently has new poems out in The Laurel Review and Saltfront, in print. Online, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, is featuring three of his poems at http://maryjournal.org/fall2016/?page_id=416 On Wednesday, April 5, Camille Dungy will present at the Newberry Library, Chicago as part of a panel in celebration of the…
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News of Note Week of February 13
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 13Dan Beachy-Quick has a group of essays from A Quiet Book in the new Copper Nickel. On Saturday February 25th, Camille Dungy will be the Keynote Speaker at the Robinson Jeffers Society Annual Meeting at Occidental College. Her talk is titled: “The View From Hawk Tower Today: A Contemporary Environmental Poet…
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News of Note Week of September 26
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 26Tim Amidon and Michele Simmons (Miami University) gave a research talk titled “Negotiating ‘messy’ research context and design through adaptive research stances” at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) in Washington, D.C. While at SIGDOC, Tim also participated in “Draw to communicate: How…
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News of Note Week of November 7th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 7thZach Hutchins has been awarded a 2016 Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH support will facilitate research on Hutchins’s current book project, a prehistory of the North American slave narrative. For his research, Hutchins is reading thousands of issues of early American newspapers and transcribing every news…
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News of Note Week of February 2nd
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 2ndTim Amidon’s collaboratively authored chapter (with Jessica Reyman) titled “Authorship and Ownership of User Contributions on the Social Web” is now out in Cultures of Copyright (Eds. Dànielle Nichole DeVoss and Martine Courant Rife). Additionally, this semester he is teaching “CO402: Principles of Digital Rhetoric and Design” which is the first time this…
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Recent English Department Publications, Award Winners, and Publishing News
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Read More: Recent English Department Publications, Award Winners, and Publishing NewsNew faculty publications and awards reveal the diversity of scholarly and creative strengths in this department. Sue Doe and Lisa Langstraat, Generation Vet: Composition, Student-Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University Zachary McLeod Hutchins, Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England Tobi Jacobi (with co-author Ann Folwell Standford), Woman,…
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News of Note from the Week of March 24th
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Read More: News of Note from the Week of March 24thThe sun is shining on Eddy Hall this Friday afternoon, and there are many other good things to celebrate as well. Such as, Dan Beachy-Quick will be presenting the Wittreich Lecture at University of Louisville. He’ll be reading an essay titled: “Poetic Geometries: Moby-Dick as Primer to Creative Crisis.” There’s…