Announcements Archive

2009

Dr. Clay Spinuzzi (University of Texas at Austin) will present “How Not to Write Fiction: Style and Evidence in Qualitative Research Studies” on Friday, 11/6 at 7 pm, Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center (Justin Boardroom). Flyer >>

Dr. Seth Kahn (West Chester U.) will present "(Re)Politicizing the Writing Process: Exhortation and Cautionary Tale" on Tuesday 10/27 at 7 pm at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center (Cox C). This event is free and open to the public. Flyer >>

BLUU, Ballroom C is headquarters for The National Day of Writing this Tuesday (10/20), with events throughout the day:

@ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm — Displays will be exhibited from Department of English, The College of Education, The Center for Writing, and the Writing Associates program about TCU writing programs and writing support, including one-one-one tutorials provided by The Center for Writing.

@ 12:30 - 1:50 pm — "Writing on Authorship: Bureacracies, Letters, and Literary and Academic Marketplaces," a scholarly panel featuring Dr. Anne Frey, Dr. Theresa Gaul, and Dr. Sarah Robbins of the Department of English, discussing her recently published or upcoming scholarly book: British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism; Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860; and Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905-1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America (respectively).

@ 7:00 - 8:30 pm — Fiction readings by several TCU Students and Glen Pourciau, short story writer and author of Invite (winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award) whose stories have also appeared in the New England Review, Ontario Review, Mississippi Review, and Best of the Web 2009.

 

Contribute your work to The National Gallery of Writing, a virtual space where people who perhaps have never thought of themselves as writers can post one thing they have written that is important to them. Contribute to the National Gallery: http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/79621

Listen to Dr. Richard Leo Enos deliver "Etruscan Influences on Roman Rhetoric and Literature" (a 9/23 podcast on Colgate University's "Talk about Talk" WRCU radio program).

The Sept. 2009 issue of the TCU Rhetoric and Composition Alumni Society Newsletter is now available.
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Dr. Cheryl Glenn (Penn State U.) will present "When Rhetoric and Feminism Work Together: The Possibilities" on Monday 10/5 at 7 pm at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center (Justin Boardroom). This event is free and open to the public. Flyer >>
READ Molly Mahan's blog post for TCU Magazine about Glenn's visit: http://thetcumagazine.blogspot.com/2009/10/campus-reflections-rhetorically.html

On Saturday 9/26, Dallas iMedia Youth Channel and our TCU Creative Writing Awards will benefit from a weekend-long celebration of Slam Bang Theater, featuring a documentary screening, cable television marathon, 60’s dance band, and other events throughout the days. More>

On Thursday 9/24, Capt. Shannon Meehan and Dr. Roger Thompson (TCU PhD in English,'99) will be on hand for a reading and discussion of their collaboration on Meehan's memoir, Beyond Duty: Life on the Front Line in Iraq. Free and open to the public, the event begins at 7 pm at the Kelly Alumni Center. More> VIDEO COMING SOON

Sarah McNeely published "Beyond the Drawing Room: The Musical Lives of Victorian Women" in recent issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 5.2 (Summer 2009).

On 8/8, Dr. Linda Hughes appeared on BBC radio to discuss Tennyson's Ulysses as part of a program celebrating the 200th anniversary of the poet. More>

The Fall 2009 issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy features an interview with Scott McCloud by Scot Hanson. Read>

The Trinity Shakespeare Festival at TCU runs June 11-28, with performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo & Juliet. Details at http://www.trinityshakes.org/

Alex Lemon's Hallelujah Blackout was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and his poems "I Love You Big Brother," "My Fallow Human Beans," and "Heat" will be published in Pleiades. An excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Happy, will be published in the fall issue of Tin House.

Dr. Richard Leos Enos has been selected as a Piper Professor of 2009. The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation (San Antonio, TX) recognizes outstanding achievement in the teaching profession in Texas colleges and universities.

Read the new issue of Reed, the English department newsletter. It's online here as a PDF, or you can pick up a print copy in RH 314.

Congratulations to Dr. Theresa Gaul, who was named the Women's Studies Program's Wise Woman of 2009, an annual teaching award that recognizes faculty contributions both inside and outside of the classroom. more >>

Alex Lemon's essay "Heartdusting" was recently accepted to appear in the Fall 2009 of The Southern Review.

We welcome our new members of Sigma Tau Delta (English honor society), inducted on Thursday 4/30: Emily Cody, Alicia Frinak, Jamella Gow, Cathy Lynn Moody, Kelly Garcia, Dorenda Kesler, Ashley Tambunga, Kelli Trapnell, Rebecca Trefny, and Taylor Yarborough. Congratulations!

Faculty booksigning at the TCU Bookstore this Friday, 5/8 (11:30-1:30 pm, Reading Room): works by Richard Leo Enos, Ann George, Charlotte Hogg, Linda Hughes, Alex Lemon, Joddy Murray, Karen Steele, and others.
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The Spring 2009 Issue Release Party for eleven40seven will be this Saturday 5/2 (8-10 pm, 141 Moudy N). Come for food, beverages, readings, and a first of a kind collaborative performance: "the Texas Creative Underground:breaking."

Dr. Ariane Balizet will present a lecture on Romeo and Juliet and Alex Lemon will give a poetry reading at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA on 4/22. more >>

Attend the Graduate School Workshop on Thursday 4/23 (12:30-1:30 pm, BB 106) to hear a panel of faculty and graduate students present on the GRE exam, application considerations, and other concerns.

Dr. Karen Steele will present "A Terrible Beauty? Women, Media, and the Irish Struggle for Independence" at the TCU Library's FacultySpeak on Friday 4/17 (7 pm, Library Conference Room).

Alex Lemon has six poems and six Yang Jian translations (with Wang Ping) in the newest issue of Artful Dodge, and his memoir was also selected to be one of the seven "Buzz Books" at the 2009 Book Expo of America this year in NYC.

The deadline for submissions for the Fourth Annual Festival of Undergraduate Scholarship and Creativity is Tuesday 3/24. More >>

Be sure to visit the new creative writing @ TCU website and the Texas Creative Underground blog. The Bryson Literary Society is accepting submissions for the Spring 2009 issue of eleven40seven (deadline 3/6, midnight). Submit your poetry, fiction, photography, painting, and video work. For more information, visit eleven40seven or our group page on Facebook.

Sigma Tau Delta, an honor society for English majors and minors, is accepting applications for membership until noon on Friday 2/13. Read more >>

Visit the new creative writing @ TCU website!

Dr. Chantel Langlinais's poetry appears in the journal damselfly press.

Alex Lemon's poetry has recently appeared in Esquire, and his work will be published in the Yale Younger Poets Anthology and a Best Of series by the Academy of American Poets. Reviews of his book Hallelujah Blackout appear in recent issues of Virginia Quarterly Review and American Poet.

Dr. Joddy Murray has a poem appearing in Paper Street. Website >>

Read a collaborative review of "Trends & Teaching in Composition" by 11 members of the department in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Website >>

Visit Writer's Block, a compilation of works created last semester in ENGL 40233 (Writing for Publication), taught by Dr. Carrie Leverenz. Website >>

The Creative Writing Awards will be held on Tuesday, 3/3 (2009) at the Kelly Center. Poet Ray Gonzalez will read from his work. More >>

Alex Lemon has a poem and photograph in the January issue of Esquire, and Mark Doty has selected his poem “Mosquito” for inclusion in a Best Of series to be published by the Academy of American Poets.

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Portfolios for the First Annual Sandra Brown Excellence in Literary Fiction (ELF) Award are due by Friday 11/21.
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Green honors chair Laurel Brake of Birkbeck, University of London, will participate in a panel, “Media Then and Now: Print and Film in the 19th and 20th Centuries,” on Monday 11/17 and present “The Closure of Colindale: The Information Commons and Nineteenth Century Print Culture” on Wednesday 11/19. Both events begin at 6 pm at BLUU Chambers. More >>

Entries for the Creative Writing Contests are due by Friday 11/14.
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Celebrate descant's 50th Birthday at the Library on Wednesday 11/12. Readings from descant: Fifty Years will be held in the afternoon, and Texas Poets Laureate Larry Thomas and Alan Birkelbach will read from their work at 7:30 pm (Library Conference Room B29).

On Friday 11/7 (3 pm, Davis Room, BLUU) Dr. Kathryn Ledbetter will present "Encoding Beauty: Poetry and Women's Periodicals," a lecture on the relation of word and image in the mass medium of 19th-century women's periodicals.

Celebrate your freedom to read! Banned Books Week is 9/27-10/4. Dr. Theresa Gaul will participate on a Huck Finn discussion panel on 9/28. Read More >>

Dr. Richard Leo Enos, 2008 Chancellor's Award recipient for "Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar" More >>

 

Congratulations!

. . . to Dr. Bonnie Blackwell, who has received the 2008 Wise Woman Award for outstanding teaching and mentoring in the Women's Studies program.

. . . to our Department of English Award Winners: Jack Downs (Composition Program Teacher of the Year), Angela Bullard and April Patrick (Graduate Student of the Year), Moriah McCracken (Tate Prize in Composition), Dr. Ann George (Graduate Faculty Member of the Year), Dr. Karen Steele (Research), Dr. Bonnie Blackwell (Teaching), Dr. Theresa Gaul (Service).

. . . to Jeramey Kraatz for winning the 2008 Boller Award for the Outstanding Senior Honors Presentation: "The Nature of Rodents and Other Essays." Kraatz was recently accepted—with funding—into the extremely competitive MFA program at Columbia University.

. . . to Shannon Hardwick (B.A. English, 2007) has been accepted into the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence.

. . . to Brandon Chasteen, who has accepted an offer to begin graduate studies, with a Departmental Fellowship, at Indiana University at Bloomington.

. . . to Douglas Lucas, who has been admitted to the highly competitive Clarion West Writer’s Workshop for Summer 2008.

. . . to Ben Barnes, who will be attending the University of Texas Law School in Fall 2008.

. . . to PhD candidate Kristi Serrano, who won the 2008 Nokia Research Award for her dissertation project, The Non-‘Issued’ Voice in Whispers: Examining the Rhetorical Space of Wives in the Military Community.