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FEATURED EVENTS

The Edinburgo's Poets Café #2 : 12/03 (TH)
featuring poet Tato Laviera
7pm, Jeffers Theater, UTPA
Sponsored by the Dept. of English, the MFA program, and Cosecha Voices

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Free and open to the public. For more information or special accommodations,
please contact Emmy Pérez (956.381.3435).

gallery early fall deadline : 12/09 (W)
Give us extra time to consider your work for the Spring 2010 Issue.


FEATURED COURSES-Spring '09 [full course listing]

Sal delRey, South Texas Scene by T.FrancisENG 3320-Special Topics: Environmental Literature (T.Francis)
MWF 11:35-12:45 (#20825)
A Learning Communities Class paired with HIST 4397-American Environmental History (A.Hay)

Course Q's: Can we know nature? Can we speak in the voice of nature? Is there a literature of sustainability? What does the wilderness mean to us? Is monkey wrenching ethical?

Literacy Posters: Western & EasternENG 4323-Studies in Literacy: Reading & Writing Identity (M.McCracken)
MW 4-5:15 (#20872)
What can
't Johnny or Jane do NOW? We'll explore myths that surround the concept of literacy, look at specific cultural moments that shaped our ideas of reading & writing, and question educational accessibility and literacy?

Course Q's: What are the "basics" people say we should "get back to"? How does being a girl or a boy affect one's relationship to literacy as a child? How do others' perceptions of a person as an outsider affect how one positions oneself in relation to various types of literarcy? What literacies are most valued in American culture and why?

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

Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25

 

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 ThomsonShawn 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 The Fortress of American Solitudeheroic 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.

 


DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS

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Department of English
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