Kate McClancy presented “Say Its Name: Cultural Appropriation and Resurrecting Cabrini Green in Candyman” at the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
MFA Fiction student Howard Meh-Buh Maximus has won the 2022 Afritondo Short Fiction Prize for his story “Grotto.”
MFA fiction alumna Samantha Jayne Allan has won the prestigious Tony Hillerman Prize, and her novel, Pay Dirt Road, which has been described as Friday Night Lights meet Mare of Easttown,” has been published by Macmillan: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250804280/paydirtroad
MFA Poetry alumnus Tomás Q. Morín has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Susan Morrison presented (virtually) “Material and Metaphoric Waste: Toxicity and Redemption in The Bluest Eye, The Road, and The Four Quartets” at the 34thEuropean Association for American Studies Conference: Wastelands. Madrid, Spain, on April 6, 2022. Also, Susan’s short story, “The Page Turner,” was published in Revenge, a collection of short stories, by Free Spirit in India.
Cecily Parks’s essay “The Past in Pastoral“ appears in the current issue of Ecotone, and another essay, “Cecily Aching Best,” is forthcoming this summer in Harvard Review.
The Cincinnati Review has accepted Doug Dorst’s short story “Yacare Caiman (Little Reptiles #7)” for its Fall issue.
On March 30, students in Steve Wilson’s “American Novel” course chatted with Chicana author Helena Maria Viramontes about her book, Under the Feet of Jesus, one of the texts they read for class. The Zoom visit was supported with funds from the Department’s Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series endowment.
REMINDER: The Department of English invites you to The Awards Ceremony honoring outstanding English Students, on Thursday, April 21, 2022, at 3:30 PM, in Flowers 341. (Reception to follow.)
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