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of interest
The English Department announces the establishment of the Houston Writing Fellows Program for writing instructors interested in joining a cohort of teachers and scholars committed to the theory and practice of writing pedagogy.
glass mountain, the English Department's new undergraduate journal of Literature and The Arts, is accepting submissions for their next issue. For information go to: glass mountain website
The English Department welcomes five new faculty members:
- Assistant Professor Mat Johnson joins the Creative Writing Program and writes both fiction and creative nonfiction; among his books are Drop and Hunting in Harlem.
- Assistant Professor Alexander Parsons joins the Creative Writing Program and specializes in fiction writing; among his books are In the Shadows of the Sun and Leaving Disneyland.
- Assistant Professor Hazel Pierre is a specialist in Caribbean Studies; Hazel has recently defended her dissertation at the University of Warwick.
- Visiting Assistant Professor Liz Waldner, a poet, joins the Creative Writing Program; among her many books are Dark Would and A Point Is That Which Has No Part.
- Professor James Zebroski, Specialist in Rhetoric and Composition and author of Thinking Through Theory: Vvgotskian Perspectives on the Teaching of Writing.
We welcome them to the Department.
course descriptions
calendar
- April 28, 2008: Last day of classes.
- April 30 - May 8, 2008: Final examination period
- May 9, 2008: Official closing of the spring semester.
- May 9, 2008: Commencement
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)
- Wyman H. Herendeen has published “William Camden: A Life in Context” (Boydell & Brewer Press)
- 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
- 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
