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of interest
The English Department welcomes five new faculty members in the Fall 2008:
- Assistant Professor Dr. Paul Butler is a specialist in the area of Rhetoric, Composition and Pedagogy. He is the author of Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric. Paul joins us from the University of Nevada, Reno.
- Assistant Professor Dr. Sally Connolly is a specialist in the area of Contemporary American and British Poetry. Sally joins us from Wake Forest University.
- Assistant Professor Dr. Jennifer Wingard is a specialist in the area of Rhetoric, Composition and Pedagogy. Jennifer has recently defended her doctoral dissertation at Syracuse University.
- Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Zapruder, a widely published poet and translator, joins the Creative Writing Program for the Fall Semester. His first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press Editors’ Prize.
- Visiting Assistant Professor Martha Serpas, a 1998 Doctor or Philosophy graduate of University of Houston, joins the Creative Writing Program for the Fall Semester. Martha has published the Dirty Side of the Storm and Cote Blanche.
We welcome them to the Department.
Houston Writing Fellows:
The Department of English inaugurates this new initiative with the appointment of five Houston Writing Fellows as part of its commitment to writing pedagogy and practice, and to advanced work in the field of Rhetoric and Composition. The Fellowship, modeled on postdoctoral awards, is highly competitive. Congratulations to these inaugural award holders:
- Ryan Call, M.F.A., Creative Writing, George Mason University, and former coordinator of the Arlington Campus Writing Center, George Mason University;
- Darin Ciccotelli, Ph.D., Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston, former Managing Editor, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art;
- Mary Gray, Ph.D., English (specialization, Rhetoric and Composition), former instructor and researcher at the University of Houston Writing Center;
- Bradford Gray Telford, Ph.D., Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston, author of Perfect Hurt (forthcoming March 09) and translator of The Story of My Voice by Genevieve Huttin (forthcoming, September 09);
- Jeanine Walker, Ph.D., Literature and Creative Writing, formerly Senior Writer, Writers in the Schools (Houston) and Senior Reader, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art.
course descriptions
news & events
- Janine Joseph, Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Creative Writing, was awarded a 2009 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship.
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English faculty members will participate in the UH Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The University of Houston is bolstering student’s research skills with the Learning Through Discovery Initiative. The initiative promotes a teaching and learning culture supportive of research in all disciplines for all undergraduate students.<-->
Congratulations are extended to the following faculty members for their project recognition:- Maria González
- Carl Lindhal
- David Mazella
- Lynn Voskuil
calendar
- April 10: Boldface regestration deadline
- April 17: Symposium:The Current State of Empire Studies view flyer
- May 4: Last day of classes
- May 15: Commencement
upcoming events
- June 22-27: Boldface, a conference for emerging writers. Workshops, speakers, publishing possibilities and cash prizes! For more information and to register, visit the Glass Mountain web site.
excellence
recent publications
Congratulations to faculty on their recent book publications
- Lawrence Hogue has published “Post Modern American Literature and Its Other” (University of Illinois Press)
- Mark Doty has published a new collection of poems, “ Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems” (Harper-Collins)
- Hosam Aboul-Ela has published “Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariategui Tradition” (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Dorothy Baker has published “America’s Gothic Fiction” (Ohio State University Press)
- Elizabeth Brown Guillory has published “Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History” (Ohio State University Press)
- Chitra Divakaruni has published “The Palace of Illusions” (Doubleday)
- Mark Doty has published “Dog Years” (Harper Collins)
- Elizabeth Gregory has published, “Ready: Why Women are Embracing the New Later Motherhood”
- Wyman Herendeen has published "William Camden: A Life in Context" (Boydell & Brewer)
- Mat Johnson has published “Incognegro” (Bloomsbury USA)
- Elizabeth Kessler has published, “Chican@s in the Conversations”, (Pearson Education, Inc)
- David Mazella has published “The Making of Modern Cynicism” (University of Virginia Press)
- David Mikics has published “A New Handbook of Literary Terms” (Yale University Press)
- Robert Phillips has published”Are Those Real Poems or Did You Write Them Yourself” (Texas Review Press) and “Essays on Elizabeth Spencer” (Texas Review Press)
- James Pipkin has published "Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies" (Universitiy of Missouri Press)
- Irving Rothman has published “Daniel Defoe: An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions” (AMS Press, Inc.)
- Roberta Weldon has published, "Hawthorne, Gender, and Death; Christianity and Its Discontents" (Palgrave MacMillan)
around the department
- Mark Doty, Professor of English and Creative Writing, has won the 2008 distinguished National Book Award for Poetry, for his new collection of poems, “Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems” (Harper-Collins)
- Elizabeth Gregory, Professor and director of Women’s Studies was named by Houston Woman Magazine one of the 50 most influential women in Houston.
supporting us
Make a gift by telephone at 713-743-2935 or by mail to the English Department at 4800 Cullen Boulevard, Houston, TX 77204-3013
