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02/11 LATS Spring Symposium: Panel Discussion & Reading
Jan. 21, 2021—Panel Discussion: Fred Arroyo, Alex Espinoza, and Daisy Hernández | February 11, 3PM CST | Register for panel discussion Reading: Alex Espinoza and Daisy Hernández | February 11, 7PM CST | Register for reading The Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writer Series is partnered with Latina and Latino Studies (LATS) at Vanderbilt University to present...
New Publication by Anthony Reed: Soundworks
Jan. 20, 2021—Associate Professor of English Anthony Reed Releases Soundsworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Refiguring American Music) In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations...
Maria Carlos (MFA ’21) Wins TWF20-21 Poetry Contest
Jan. 20, 2021— Judge Paisley Rekdal had this to say about the winner, “A selection of poems ambitious both in scope and energy. These are poems that investigate race, class, and nostalgia via personal memories of the narrator’s family and Southern history itself. The poems push deeply into uncomfortable territory with grace, nuance, and real complexity. Wonderful.” Maria...
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Jan. 20, 2021—Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America by Professor Teresa Goddu A Recommendation by Chair of the Department of English and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Dana Nelson When we think of abolition, we often remember Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin: its tear-inducing scenes, like Eliza’s perilous escape across...
Lee Conell (MFA ’15) is 2020 Wallant Award recipient
Jan. 20, 2021—MFA graduate Lee Conell (MFA in Fiction/2015) has been awarded the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for her novel The Party Upstairs. The Edward Lewis Wallant Award is a national prize from the University of Hartford that recognizes an emerging author whose outstanding work shows kinship with Wallant’s writing. It is “one of the oldest and...
New Faculty Carlos A. Nugent wins American Literature’s Foerster Prize
Jan. 14, 2021—Congratulations to Carlos Alonso Nugent, winner of the 2020 Norman Foerster Prize for best essay of the year in American Literature: “Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Imagined Environments”, published in volume 92, issue 2. Read the essay, freely available through the end of April, here. The prize committee offered this praise for the...
02/25 Visiting Writers Series: Dana Johnson
Jan. 13, 2021—February 25, 7PM CST | Click here to register Dana Johnson is the author of the short story collection In the Not Quite Dark (Counterpoint, 2016). She is also the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel Elsewhere, California. Both books were nominees for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award....
03/26 Visiting Writers Series: Simon Han & Lee Conell
Jan. 13, 2021—March 26, 7PM CDT | Click here to register Simon Han was born in Tianjin, China, and raised in various cities in Texas. He is author of Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead, 2020). His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Texas Observer, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Electric Literature, and LitHub. He has received awards...
04/08 Visiting Writers Series: Edward Hirsch
Jan. 13, 2021—April 8, 7PM CDT | Click here to register Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poetry, including Stranger By Night (2020), The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, and Gabriel: A Poem, a book-length elegy for his son. He has also published six books of prose, among them How to Read a Poem...
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Dec. 17, 2020—Postcards from the Gerund State by Professor Lorraine López A Recommendation by Professor of English Nancy Reisman If you’ve noticed that higher education is rich terrain for satire, or have pondered how educated, artistic women might navigate institutional absurdity, outmoded gender paradigms, white myopia, and bumbling racial and cultural erasures, all while reckoning with teaching...