The Roy G. Cullen building, home of the English Department
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.
course descriptions
calendar
- August 25: First day of classes
- September 1: Labor Day
- September 8: Last day to drop or withdraw
- November 26-29: Thanksgiving Holiday
- December 5: Last day of class
- December 10-18: Final Exams
excellence
recent publications
Congratulations to faculty on their recent book publications
- Wyman Herendeen has published "William Camden: A Life in Context" (Boydell & Brewer)
- Hosam Aboul-Ela has published “Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariategui Tradition” (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Elizabeth Brown Guillory has published “Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History” (Ohio State University Press)
- Mark Doty has published “Dog Years” (Harper Collins)
- 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)
- Chitra Divakaruni has published “The Palace of Illusions” (Doubleday)
- Irving Rothman has published “Daniel Defoe: An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions” (AMS Press, Inc.)
- Mat Johnson has published “Incognegro” (Bloomsbury USA)
- James Pipkin has published "Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies" (Universitiy of Missouri Press)
- Roberta Weldon has published, "Hawthorne, Gender, and Death; Christianity and Its Discontents" (Palgrave MacMillan)
- Elizabeth Gregory has published, “Ready: Why Women are Embracing the New Later Motherhood”
- Elizabeth Kessler has published, “Chican@s in the Conversations”, (Pearson Education, Inc)
- David Mikics has published “A New Handbook of Literary Terms” (Yale University Press)
- Dorothy Baker has published “America’s Gothic Fiction” (Ohio State University Press)
- David Mazella has published “The Making of Modern Cynicism” (University of Virginia Press)
around the department
- Dorothy Baker and J. Kastley have been awarded Houstoun Visiting Professor to bring Professor Eliza Richards to campus to participate in the day-long exploration and appreciation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
- James Zebroski has been awarded the Houstoun Visiting Professor Award to bring Professor Kay Halasek (Sept. 18-20) and Professor Duane Roen (Oct. 30 – Nov. 1) to explore aspects of rhetoric, composition and pedagogy.
- Maria Gonzalez has been awarded the Houstoun Research Grant to support her research into the archives of Gloria Anzaldua in the Benson Collection at the University of Texas.
- Carl Lindahl has been awarded the Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism for his research at the Folk and Transport Museum in Cultra, Ireland, and at the National Library of Scotland.
- David Mazella has been awarded the Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism for his research at the London Guildall Library as part of his ongoing research for his current book project, 1771: A Geography of Feeling.
- John McNamara has been awarded the Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism for his research at the National Library of Scotland and at the libraries of the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow as part of his ongoing research into medieval Scottish literary traditions.
- David Mikics has been awarded the Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism for his research on Emerson’s manuscripts at the Houghton Library, Harvard University as part of his work for his book, The Annotated Emerson.
- Lois Zamora has been awarded the Houstoun Research Grant in Literary Criticism to assist in the translation of her book, The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction, into Spanish.
- Lorraine Stock has received the 2008 University Teaching Excellence Award for Innovative Teaching Using Instructional Technology
- Tony Hoagland has received the Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded to an American Poet who has published at least one book of recognized literary merit but has not yet received major national acclaim.
- Margot Backus wins the 2008 University of Houston Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research, for her outstanding contributions to undergraduate research on campus. She is currently working in Ireland, having won a 2007-8 Irish American Cultural Institute/National University of Ireland-Galway Visiting Fellowship.
- Carl Lindahl has been elected to the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society, the international organization for the advancement of scholarship in the field of folklore.
- Chitra Divakaruni has received the 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award for her contribution to South Asian Literature.
- Maria Gonzalez has won this year’s Michael Lynch Service Award from the Gay, Lesbian/Queer Caucus of the Modern Language Association.
- Mat Johnson has been awarded the James Baldwin Fellow For 2007, Awarded by United States Artists.
- Lois Zamora has received Honorable Mention for Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for her book, The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction, published by the University of Chicago Press
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
