NEWS
9/27 . Steve Schneider (Dir. Special Projects) gets 2nd consecutive Big Read grant from the NEA
10/26 . Emmy Pérez (creative writing faculty) wins the 2009 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Award
REMINDERS
12/10 (TH), 12-1 . Soup's On!: Technology & Multimodal Projects
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Lauren Espinoza's poetry is in Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow, 2010).
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
Shawn Thomson's new book, A Fortress of American Solitude: Robinson Crusoe and Antebellum Culture, hits the shelves. Here's a taste: "For young boys who grew up immersed in the objectal world of Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe’s lessons of self-mastery and his progression of achievements became a model of 
heroic individualism. But as young men left home and took their first jobs in counting houses, shops, or aboard ships, a rift opened up between the Crusoe myth and the pressures and dictates of the competitive marketplace.
