Geneva Gano has been named the recipient of a 2024 Lillian Gary Taylor Visiting Fellowship in American Literature by the University of Virginia’s Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture. Geneva will be in residence at the University of Virginia in Fall 2024 conducting research on the novelist John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy.
Amanda Scott’s interview with Coast Salish writer Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has just been published as “Songs of Redemption: A Conversation with Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe,” The Rumpus (July 29, 2024). https://therumpus.net/2024/07/29/sasha-taqws%C9%99blu-lapointe/.
The work of MFA alumna Sabah Carrim is featured in this article, “The Writings and Literary Philosophy of Mauritian Author Sabah Carrim,” by Frank Njugi, published in the Frankfurt-based magazine Culture Africa (July 30, 2024). It is available in English and German here: https://www.cultureafrica.net/the-writing-and-literary-philosophy-of-mauritian-author-sabah-carrim_by-frank-njugi__english-and-german/.
M.A. Literature alumnus Nathan Singleton’s article “Nightmare Angels and Dreams of Flight: Transgressive Transcendence in J.G. Ballard’s Crash and The Unlimited Dream Company” appears in the current issue of Extrapolation 65.2 (July 2024), 175–193. Nathan is now a PhD student in English at Stony Brook University in New York.
The latest issue of the New American Studies Journal is devoted to poetry and features a lengthy interview with Cyrus Cassells, as well as several poems by Cyrus. It is available here: https://nasjournal.org/NASJ/issue/view/150.
In addition, Cyrus’s freeform version of “Act of Gratitude,” by Catalan poet Francesc Parcerisas, was featured on the July 18, 2024, daily poetry podcast, The Slowdown: https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024/07/18/1164-act-of-gratitude-by-cyrus-cassells. Cyrus’s book Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? is reviewed in the current issue of The Inflectionist Review (August 2024): https://www.inflectionism.com/18/tiffany-troy-reviews-is-there-room-for-another-horse-on-your-horse-ranch-by-cyrus-cassells. Cyrus will also serve as guest judge of the RHINO Poetry 2025 Founder’s Prize.
Robert Tally has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 University Award for Excellence in Humanities Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities.
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