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Alumni Achievements
Congratulations to English alumni Susie Warley on the release of her second album, "Naked Dreams." Susie writes her own songs and graduated in 2005 from UTSA Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
Congratulations to English alumni Emmy Ruiz, now living in Washington D.C., on her receipt of the Democratic GAIN Rookie of the Year Award. More...
Kudos to James J. Hunter, a 2008 M.A. graduate in English Literature from UTSA in 2008, who is currently working as a technical writer/analyst at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Hunter says the UTSA program has prompted him to gain a richer understanding of English literature and history: “It has definitely broadened my understanding and helped me on my career path. For this, I will always be grateful.” Hunter says using his general language and linguistic expertise, he completes frequent editing and revision practices to ensure lessons meet Air Force course specifications as outlined in their manuals.
UTSA alumnus and English major Jeffery Wohl serves as a volunteer in Chachani, Peru, and has been appointed the academic coordinator of the village’s school (see picture below). Wohl says that while teaching English to the children is the main goal of his volunteer work, he believes the children are gaining more than just knowledge of a new language: “I believe the attention we give them is worth more than a few nouns and adjectives in a foreign language. If anything, the children of Chachani have something to look forward to when they get out of school, and they definitely return home with a smile.” Wohl finds volunteering in Chachani has been one of the most rewarding and most difficult experiences he has ever had. In Fall 2008, Wohl will begin work on an MA in English at the University of Delaware where he has received a full fellowship.
Village school In the classroom
Congrats to UTSA alumnus, Jeremy Tirrell, who is currently working on his dissertation at Purdue University. Tirrell is also the Technology Coordinator of the Professional Writing Program at Purdue University. For more information please visit http://www.jtirrell.com/.
Faculty Achievements
Congratulations to Dr. Jeanne Reesman on the publication of her new book, Jack London's Racial Lives. More...
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Marisa Huerta on her acceptance to the International Seminar for Young Eighteenth-Century Scholars. More...
Mark Allen is part of the Steering Committee of the Canterbury Tales Project (University of Birmingham).
Wendy Barker received the Violet Crown Book Award from the Writers' League of Texas, 2007 (for Between Frames, a chapbook). Dr. Barker was also a runner-up, Del Sol Poetry Prize, for book manuscript Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years, 2008, and acceptance for publication by Del Sol Press. She is also a finalist for James Wright Award, poem "Why I Dread Teaching The Sun Also Rises," contest held by the editors of Mid-American Review. Poem forthcoming in Mid-American Review as Editors' Choice.
Norma Cantú was presented with the Premerio Letras de Aztlan Award for her tireless work on behalf of Chicana/o studies scholarship and community activism by the 2007 NACCS Tejas Foco conference.
She has also been honored as one of two new National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Scholars for 2008. Dr. Norma Cantu was presented with the Premerio Letras de Aztlan Award for her tireless work on behalf of Chicana/o studies scholarship and community activism by the 2007 NACCS Tejas Foco conference.
Dr. Cantú was awarded the Scholar of the Year Award from the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) in addition to Catedra Laboris, from the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM).
Bridget Drinka is honored as a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, which includes a 2-week lecture tour at four universities in Japan.
Sue Hum co-edited the anthology, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking, which has just been published (Parlor, 2007).
Joycelyn Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature accepted award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) an award for Best Special Issue in 2007--African American Review for "The Curse of Caste"; guest editor Veta Smith Tucker.
Catherine Kasper is the winner of the 2008 Noemi Press Fiction Contest for her novella, Notes from the Committee, slated to be published in 2009.
Steven G. Kellman is the winner of the 2006 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle, the highest recognition for a literary critic. In addition, Dr. Kellman has received the Gemini Ink Award for Literary Excellence, 2008.
Debbie López has been awarded a Fulbright Lectureship to Greece for Fall, 2008.
Ben V. Olguin was named a Finalist in the James Hearst Poetry Prize for his poem, “Chin,” which was published in The North American Review (March/April 2008). Ben V. Olguín and Omar Vasquez Barboza, translators, received the 2008 International Latino Book Prize for Poetry Translation for Cantos de Adolescencia/Songs of Youth, by Américo Paredes (Houston: Arte Público Press, 2007).
David Ray Vance is 2005 winner of the Del Sol Press Poetry Prize for Vitreous, which debuts at # 19 on the Poetry Best Seller List put out by the Poetry Foundation.
Dr. Patricia Trujillo successfully defended her dissertation.
Student Achievements
Congratulations to the 2009 winners of COLFA's 9th Spring Research Conference, many of whom are English students. More...
Congratulations to Ph.D. students Grisel Acosta, Roberta Barki and Larissa Mercado on their recent receipt of prestigious awards. More...
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Patricia Trujillo, who accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of English at Colorado State University. More...
Congratulations to doctoral student Marco Cervantes, awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. More...
Congratulations to Robert Valdez, Masters student and benefactor of the UTSA Creative Writing Program. Valdez has won the Texas Monthly "SuperLawyer" award for 2008. This annual award is given based on peer recommendations.
