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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...
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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...
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Dec. 1, 2020—Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas by Professor Candice Amich A Recommendation by Associate Professor of English Emily Lordi Professor Candice Amich’s new book Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas uses visceral descriptions and stunning analysis to show how contemporary artists across the Americas—in Chile, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, the United...
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Oct. 20, 2020—The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and resilience since the 1960s (Refiguring American Music) by Professor Emily Lordi A Recommendation by Thea J. Autry, Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English Did you know that soul music has historically found its inspiration in the black Baptist tradition? That in Beyoncé’s Lemonade is a nod to 60s...