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Gene
Yang Lecture @ SDSU, May 6, 20 Robert A. Rosenstone Lecture!
Monday May 4, 2009 @ 3pmLatina/o
Cultural Studies Lecture Wednesday @ 1pm, Bill NericcioHal Jaffe and
Stephen-Paul Martin Wednesday @ 7pm | Living Writers SeriesDr.
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literature.sdsu.edu
welcomes DIANE
ACKERMAN to SDSU, Monday, April 20, 2009!!! Poet,
essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly
acclaimed works of nonfiction, including A Natural History of the
Senses -- a book beloved by readers all over the worldand the volumes
Deep Play, A Slender Thread, The Rarest of the Rare, A Natural History
of Love, The Moon by Whale Light, and a memoir on flying, On Extended
Wings. Her poetry has been collected into six volumes, among them
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems and, most recently,
Praise My Destroyer. Ms. Ackerman has received many prizes and awards,
including the John Burroughs Nature Award and the Lavan Poetry Prize. A
Visiting Professor at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell
University, she was the National Endowment for the Humanities
Distinguished Professor at the University of Richmond. Ms. Ackerman
also has the unusual distinction of having had a molecule named after
her -- dianeackerone. She lives in upstate New York. [thanks Harper
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WRITERS VERSUS SDSU SCRIBES EVE
SEDGWICK, RIP, 1950-2009 |
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| Oliver
Mayer @ SDSU, Thursday, April 16, 2009! Come one; Come all!  Oliver
Mayer is the author of over 20 plays, including recent local hits DIAS
Y FLORES and LAWS OF SYMPATHY. Other plays include CONJUNTO, YOUNG
VALIANT and BLADE TO THE HEAT, which continues to receive productions
around the world. He recently won an Alfred P. Sloan Initiative Science
and Technology award for the completion of DARK MATTERS, an original
play about particle physics. “The Hurt Business: a Critical
Portfolio of the Early Works of Oliver Mayer, Plus,” is
published
by Hyperbole Books; “Oliver Mayer: Collected Plays”
is
published by NoPassport Press. After receiving a Gerbode Grant (given
once every four years), he wrote the libretto for the opera AMERICA
TROPICAL, composed by David Conte, published by E.C. Schirmer and Sons.
Oliver is currently writing films about latino icons Adan Sanchez and
Carlos Gardel. Oliver is Assistant Professor of Dramatic Writing at the
USC School of Theatre, and is also Resident Faculty at the Parkside
Arts and Humanities Residential College on campus. He is the winner of
a USC Zumberge Individual Award for a new six-play thematic cycle, and
a USC Mellon Mentoring Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring of
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our SDSULIT galaxy!Dr.
Gennaro Santangelo, R.I.P. NEA POETRY FELLOW Maggie Jaffe
Reading!Our Hot News
SDSULITERATURE BlogNEW! Drop in Tutoring/Editing
Available!NEW
Facebook Page for SDSU English and Complit Majors!Spring
Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers SeriesCrisis Carnival: The
Ecstasy of Speed, April 10, 2009 | Derek Pell to Keynote!UCSD
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OLIVER MAYER, author of BLADE TO THE HEAT and much, much, more.... TODAY, October 20, 2008 in the Little Theatre on the SDSU main campus at 4pm! |
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 Professor
Josesph Thomas in Parents' Choice! Community
Outreach! Our Prof. Cummins-Lewis in Encinitas  SDSU
English & Comparative Literature Lecturer named as Review
Editor for new Oxford U. Press journal -- congrats to Edith
Frampton! Chair
of SDSU Engl. & CompLit Accepts
Nomination to National Ford Foundation
Panel Ford Foundation
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  UPDATE--DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ELECTRICAL STORM OUR CEREMONY HAS BEEN MOVED BY THE UNIVERSITY FROM THE HARDY TOWER QUAD TO THE WIIK AUDITORIUM--THE 500 SEAT CLASSROOM ON THE RIGHT SIDE (FACING NORTH) OF THE ARTS AND LETTERS BUILDING. SORRY FOR THE CHANGE IN PLAN BUT THE SKIES HAVE OPENED UPON US! |
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  College
of Arts and Letters (CAL) Commencement 2008 information is now
available here--the
CAL ceremony begins on May 23, 2008 at 4:00pm in the Cox Arena. The
Department of English and
Comparative Literature ceremonies (where graduates names are read and
your favorite profs will be in attendance) directly follow the CAL
event beginning approximately at 5:30 in the Hardy
Tower
Quadrangle.
More
literature.sdsu.edu commencement info is now available here. doc-style
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 mcasd.org
and literature.sdsu.edu
collaborate
to feature the most amazing ORSON WELLES film of them all! Touch of Evil
(1958)--save January
31, 2008 on your calendar and click here
for the skinny! Go here to MCASD
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We have moved to the gloriously swank and new Arts and Letters Building on the North side of campus, room 226! |
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| Tod Browning's Freaks Screening--a MCASD/LITERATURE.SDSU.EDU Collaboration | ||||||
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 The
Hyde Living Writers Series Presents the Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading featuring the poet, Victoria Chang,
Visit Victoria's website
Mark November 20th
on your calendar
(same time/place as above) for the next
The HYDE Living Writers Program, The Department of Chicana/o Studies and English 220 The Seductive Hallucination Gallery present TINO
VILLANUEVA free and open to the public
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Wednesday, October 25th, at 7pm
About
his book, United States of Appalachia:
Studs Terkel About
his new book, In the Sierra Madre:
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 The Departments of English & Comparative Literature and Rhetoric & Writing Studies are proud to present the 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: San Diego State University Crisis Carnival 2006
Saturday,
October 21st, 2006
Featuring the artwork, photography, poetry, short fiction, essays, and multimedia presentations of graduate students from SDSU and around the globe, as well as guest lectures by SDSU faculty members!
Email us at crisiscarnival@gmail.com or visit our website: http://crisiscarnival.sdsu.edu |
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 The
College of Arts and Letters (CAL) commencement took place May 19, 2006
at 4 pm in Cox Arena. The
107nth Graduation Ceremony of The Department of English and Comparative
Literature took place in the Open Air Theater directly after
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CAL event, at 5:30pm. |
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Poet ANNIE
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invite
your friends, students, colleagues, fellow travelers.
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Born
on December 11, 1941, in San Marcos, Texas, Tino Villanueva worked as a
migrant worker, assembly-line worker and an army supply clerk. He is
the
founder of Imagine Publishers, Inc., and editor of "Imagine:
International
Chicano Poetry Journal." Author of the book length poem "Scene from the
Movie GIANT" (Curbstone, 1993), Villanueva has published three other
volumes
of poetry, "Hay Otra Voz Poems," "Shaking Off the Dark" and "Chronicle
of My Worst Years/ Cronica de mis anos peores." Villanueva won the
American
Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for "Scene from the
Movie
GIANT" in 1994. He teaches at Boston University.
Keynote
Speaker 
The
Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series presents
