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Readings at MSU
Spring Season 2009 Concluded
All readings are free and open to the public
| June | Lecturer Peter Olson has received the Scharff Graduate Award from the University of Memphis. | |
| June | Lara Dodds' "Reading and Writing in Sociable Letters; or, How Margaret Cavendish Read Her Plutarch" has been scheduled for publication by English Literary Renaissance. |  |
| April | Robert West has received the Senior Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) grant. This award will support his scholarly travel as he prepares an edition of the complete works of A. R. Ammons |  |
| April | Catherine Pierce has received notice that one of her poems will be appearing in the Paris Review.. |  |
| April | A retirement reception was held for Rich Wolf, who will be leaving to pursue further interests at the end of June. He will be greatly missed. |  |
| April 9 | Poet Martha Collins read as part of the Institute for the
Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series. Martha Collins is the author of five books of poetry, including, most recently, Blue Front, a book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old. She is also the author of Gone So Far, Some Things Words Can Do, History of Small Life on a Windy Planet, Catastrophe of Rainbows, The Arrangement of Space, a chapbook, Sheer (Barnwood, 2008), and two books of co-translations from the Vietnamese. |
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| April 2 | This year's "Afterword" reading, sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, was offered April 2.. Creative writing students Kelly Daniels, Jordan Doherty, James Maroney, and Nick White read excerpts from their M.A. theses. | |
| March 30 | Mississippi State University and the College of Arts & Sciences proudly hosted 2008 Nobel Laureate for Literature, J.M.G. Le Clezio, who lectured Monday, March 30th in Lee Hall Auditorium. This was a very special event, as Le Clezio delivered his lecture in English -- he rarely lectures in English. |
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| March 28 | Bonnie O'Neill hosted the English department's spring symposium, which featured Scott Crossley and Tommy Anderson's "Rue with a Difference: A Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide," a paper that includes "never-before-considered ideas about Shakespeare's little-known play, Hamlet." The paper offers an intriguing incorporation of linguistic analysis into literary studies. |  |
| March | Shalyn Claggett's "George Eliot's Interrogation of Physiological Future Knowledge" has been scheduled for publication in SEL. |  |
| March | The Journal of the Short Story in English will publish one of Greg Bentley's article this spring. The piece will carry the title "A Journey int the Bizarre/Bazaar: Time and Subjectivity in James Joyce's 'Araby.'" |  |
| February 5 | Katherine Anne Porter prize winner Kelly Magee, author of Body Language, read from her work. She appeared as part of The Robert Holland Visiting Writers Series. | |
| January 2009 | Issue 29.2 of Jabberwock Review is now available. | |
| Nov. 6, 2008 | Kendall Dunkelberg, author of Time Capsules, read from his poetry in the Fowlkes Auditorium, Student Union. He appeared as part of the Robert Holland Readings Series. | |
| November | Josiah Meints received the 2008 Linda Brasher/Mary Ann Dazey Award for his essay "Twice Traumatized: Psychoanalysis and Object Realites in Dickens's A Christmas Carol." | |
| November | Elizabeth Teeple was awarded the 2008 Peyton Ward Williams, Jr. Distinguished Writing Award for her essay "The Miseducation of Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol." Joshua Parsons was awarded Honorable Mention for his essay "The Innate Knowledge of Good and Evil in Adam and Eve: Milton's Presentation of Knowledge and Hierarchy in Paradise Lost." | |
| October | Molly Hartzog and Caitlin Wolfe each were named recipients of the Nolan Book Award for fall 2008. | |
| Oct. 16 | Gregory Semenza, Director of English Graduate Studies at the University of Connecticut, discussed graduate studies with our students. Dr. Semenza has won numerous awards for his teaching, including his university's AAUP Excellent Award for Teaching Promise and the 2005 University Teaching Fellows Award. His visit was sponsored by the English Department and the College of Arts & Sciences. | |
| Oct. 10 | Michael Kardos read one short story from his pending collection for the department's fall faculty symposium. The collection has received runner-up awards in numerous competitions. |  |
| Sept. 18 | Charles M. Payne, Frank P. Hixon Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, offered a lecture on "The Mississippi Freedom Schools and Their Long Legacy." This presentation was sponsored by the Mississippi State University African American Studies Program. | |
| Sept. 18 | Our first Fall Poetry readings were by authors: Brian Barker -- his first book of poems, The Animal Gospels, won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize. His poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, Poetry, Agni, Quarterly West, American Book Review, The Writer's Chronicle, The Indiana Review, Blackbird, Sou'wester, and River Styx. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing and Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, and the University of Houston. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Murray State University in Kentucky. Nicky Beer has received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a Discovery/The Nation award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2007, AGNI, Kenyon Review, The Nation, and Poetry. She has earned a PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia, an MFA from the University of Houston, and a BA from Yale University. She is a Visiting Poet at Murray State University. |
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