The University of Arizona Department of English

Offered this Fall! English 396-Sound Studies and Literature, taught by John Melillo. Click on photo for class flyer with course description!

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Offered this Fall! English 310-History of the Science Fiction Short Story, taught by Chris Cokinos. Click on photo for class flyer with course description!

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Students can REGISTER NOW for Summer 2016 Courses! Feel free to share this post!
http://english.arizona.edu/summer-2016-course-descriptions

The 2016 New Directions Graduate Student Conference! Visions: Temporality, Spectacle, and Space.....April 22-23, 2016.

The 2016 New Directions Graduate Student Conference The 2016 New Directions Graduate Student Conference

The 28th Annual Arizona Quarterly Symposium! April 7-9, 2016 at the Transitional Office Building (1731 E. Second Street).
http://azq.arizona.edu/symposium

Cristina Ramirez has been awarded the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award for her book, Occupying Our Space: Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875-1942. This award is presented through the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and is presented biennially in even-numbered years to recognize outstanding research in the areas of feminist pedagogy, practice, history, and theory. The award will be presented Wednesday evening 4/6 in Houston, TX at the Coalition meeting during the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Featured in UA News this week: Kate Bernheimer's two journals, Fairy Tale Review and Tiny Donkey! Also, be sure to check out an interpretive reading of fairy tales during the Tucson Festival of Books (info provided within the article)!

Literary Journals for Fairy Tales? Believe It, the UA Has 2 of Them If your exposure to fairy tales is limited to the sanitized versions popularized in Disney movies, you might be surprised to learn that there is a literary journal on fairy tales housed at the University of Arizona.

Check out this article! Fenton Johnson, Homer Pettey, and Scott Selisker discuss the evolution of the American Novel in the 21st Century.

The American Novel in the 21st Century

The Tucson Festival of Books is March 12th & March 13th! Click on this link for a list of panels represented by the Department of English and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences!

Tucson Festival of Books | College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2016 Festival The 2016 Tucson Festival of Books will be Saturday, March 12, and Sunday, March 13, on the University of Arizona campus. Check out our list of speakers and activities through the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. More about our speakers and events K-12 activities at the Festiv…

Summer internship opportunity!

The 2016 Montgomery & Associates Summer Writing Internship at the WRRC The University of Arizona’s Water Resources Research Center is offering a summer internship to a student interested in gaining experience writing about environmental and water issues. The internship is supported by Montgomery & Associates, an Arizona-based consulting firm specializing in hydrology…

Our very own, David Sterling Brown, featured in the UA News today!

UA Professor Explores the Definition of Family In the corner of David Sterling Brown's office is a complete suit of armor — mace, shield and all. On his desk is a collection of recently taught William Shakespeare plays.

ANNOUNCEMENT: LIBRARY RESEARCH AWARDS 2016/17

The Barnard Library will award two grants of $2,500 to researchers using its Archives(http://archives.barnard.edu/), Zine Library (http://zines.barnard.edu/), or Barnard Center for Research on Women (http://bcrw.barnard.edu/) collection.
Undergraduate and graduate students, professors and independent scholars from outside the New York metropolitan area are encouraged to apply.
Particular strengths of the three collections are the history of the college, second and third wave feminist and LGBTQ print ephemera (1970s-present newsletters, pamphlets, zines, etc.), riot grrrl, late 20th century girlhood, 20th century women's education, NYC modern dance history, representations of women’s sexuality and embodiment, contemporary zine culture, zines by women of color. Find out more about each collection by visiting its individual website: Archives, BCRW, Zines.
Award money may be used for whatever will facilitate the researcher's work at Barnard, e.g., travel, housing, childcare.
Applications will be accepted through February 29, 2016. Award notifications will be sent to applicants by April 30, 2016 for research to be conducted at Barnard during the period July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017.
Librarians at Barnard were inspired to create this program by similar awards atColumbia University and the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

Application: https://barnard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5doGhMCOizwXlZ3
FAQ: http://library.barnard.edu/Library-Research-Awards-201617-FAQ