Last Update: 4/17/12
Faculty Achievements
| Big CONGRATULATIONS to Alida Allison, who is the unanimously-selected recipient of the College of Arts & Letters Alumni Chapter award for Extraordinary Faculty Service. Alida has contributed tirelessly to our Children's Literature program, as well as to student advising and community service. | |
| Congratulations to Most Influential Faculty members Laurie Edson and Edith Frampton. Outstanding Graduating Senior for the Comparative Literature major, Samantha Hill, selected Laurie Edson; Outstanding Graduating Senior for the English major, Nadia Padilla, selected Edith Frampton. | |
| Peter Herman, Tracy Cummings, and Katie Farris are the recipients of the Department's inaugural Teaching Innovation Awards. Peter and Tracy have integrated the iClicker system in their large 220s, while Katie has developed a terrific site-based ecocritical pedagogy at Mission Trails Regional Park for her environment and literature course. | |
| Look what is new from Joanna Brooks: A collection of eighteenth-century poems, fiction, political pamphlets, letters, petitions and other writings, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions recovers a revolutionary moment in world history in which women stepped into a globalizing world and imagined themselves free (Oxford University Press). |  |
| CONGRATULATIONS to SDSU MA / Children's Lit student Jill Coste, whose essay "Coping with Compulsion Through Fantasy in _Harriet the Spy_, _Dangerous Angels_, and _Wintergirls_" has won the Children's Literature Association 2012 Graduate Student Essay Award! |  |
| Joseph T. Thomas, Jr. has just been named The Lion and the Unicorn's first ever Poetry Editor. A founding judge of the Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry, Joseph has contributed to the yearly award essay since 2005. This year's award essay, "The City, the Country, and the Road Between," has just been published in the 35.3 issue of the journal, and is available in full text either on Project Muse or on Joseph's own L&U Poetry Award website, where you can peruse previous award essays here. |  |
| David Matlin's novel A HalfMan Dreaming is now available. It's being praised as a "hypnotic," "harrowing," and "absorbing" exploration of "haunted" American landscapes of race and violence. Please visit his new website matlinwriter.com to learn more. |  |
| Stephen-Paul Martin has published his short story "Exhaustion Therapy" in the Fall / Winter Quarterly West. |  |
| Quentin Bailey's essay "Wordsworth, Baudelaire, and the Limits of Poetic Insight" is forthcoming in Comparative Literature. His book Wordsworth's Vagrants: Police, Prisons, and Poetry in the 1790s, is now out from Ashgate. |  |
| Congratulations to Michael Borgstrom on Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth Century American Literature (Palgrave, 2010). |  |
| Yetta Howard's article "Politically Incorrect, Visually Incorrect" is appearing in the Journal of Popular Culture, February 2012, 45.1. |  |
| Congratulations to Hal Jaffe on the publication of his latest book, OD, featured on the SDSU NewsCenter. |  |
The faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature sends our warmest congratulations on your upcoming graduation. We invite you and your family to two graduation ceremonies to be held in your honor:
The College of Arts and Letters will honor all College graduates on Friday, May 18, from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Viejas Arena.
The Department of English and Comparative Literature will honor English and Comparative Literature graduates on Friday, May 18, at 1:30 p.m. at the Aztec Recreation Center basketball courts.
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