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Jan. 26, 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...
01/28 Visiting Writers Series: Quan Barry
Jan. 15, 2021—January 28, 7PM CST | Click here to register Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s north shore, Quan Barry is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the author of two novels and four poetry books; her third book, Water Puppets, won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was...
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...
02/04 Visiting Writers Series: Timothy Donnelly
Jan. 13, 2021—February 4, 7PM CST | Click here to register Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book of poetry is The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019). His other collections include Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensezeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. With John...
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....
03/04 Visiting Writers Series: Major Jackson
Jan. 13, 2021—March 4, 7PM CST | Click here to register Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems....
03/25 Visiting Writers Series: Destiny Birdsong
Jan. 13, 2021—March 25, 7PM CST | Click here to register Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born poet, essayist, and fiction writer who lives and writes in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has either appeared or is forthcoming in The Paris Review, African American Review, The BreakBeat Poets Presents: Black Girl Magic, and elsewhere. Her critical work recently appeared in African American...
03/26 Visiting Writers Series: Simon Han & Lee Conell
Jan. 13, 2021—March 26, 7PM CST | 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 CST | Click here to register Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published nine previous 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 five books of prose, among them How to Read...