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Ancient Greek studies return to UTSA. For more
information please contact
Dr. Joel Christensen. To view a PowerPoint
with more information click
here.
The Department of Philosophy and Classics has a
new web page. Visit the new page
here.
The Richard
and Joyce Harris Sapience Foundation Graduate
Fellowship is now being offered to graduate
students in the Master of Arts program in English.
More..
Congratulations to Dr. June Pedraza, who
successfully defended her dissertation, titled
"Third Space Mestizaje as a Critical Approach to
Literature" and directed by Dr. Norma Cantú.
June will be graduating in August. Congrats Dr.
Pedraza!
Congratulations to Dr. Lori Rodriguez, the
first Ph.D. student from the Department of
English and the College of Liberal and Fine
Arts to successfully complete her dissertation
defense. Her dissertation, titled "Speaking
Tejana: Mapping Contemporary Reconstructions of
Tejana Identity in Literature, Film, and Popular
Culture" was directed by Dr. Sonia Saldívar-Hull.
Lori graduated in May Congrats Dr. Rodriguez!
Congratulations to
Patricia Trujillo, a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of Texas-San Antonio
in the department of English, who will join
the Department of English at
Texas State University-San Marcos as a predoctoral
fellow. Patricia is one of six fellows
selected from ninety students who applied for the
university's predoctoral fellowship program, which
is sponsored by the Graduate College at Texas
State. Funding and support from the fellowship
will allow her to spend uninterrupted time this
summer working on her dissertation, with guidance
from her mentor, Dr. Jaime Mejia. Congrats on this
impressive accomplishment!
Kudos to all the students
who participated in the Spring 2008 COLFA
Conference. Congratulations to
Amber Duncan (1st
place),
Christina Garza (2nd
place), and
Elaine Wong
(3rd place), who won awards in the Graduate
Creative Writing portion of the conference.
Congratulations to
David Martinez (1st
place),
Brian Slaughter (2nd
place), and
Jodi Ierien (3rd place),
who won awards in the Undergraduate Creative
Writing portion of the conference. Also,
congratulations to Debra Peńa (1st place),
Naomi Craven (3rd
place), and Michael Lee Gardin (5th place),
who won awards in the Graduate Research portion of
the conference.
Kudos to graduate students, Jody Briones, Laura
Ellis, Kristina Gutierrez, Isaac Hinojosa, Nicole
Provencher, Erin Ranft, Lawrence Schwegler, and
Megan Sibbett, who attended the Fifty-Ninth
Annual Convention, Conference on College
Composition and Communication in New Orleans.
Briones, Gutierrez, Hinojosa, and Sibbett
presented in a panel entitled Shifting
Realities: Third Space Ecocomposition and
Sustainability Pedagogy. Ellis, Provencher,
and Schwegler participated in The Research Network
Forum.
Ku dos
to
Michael J. Almeida,
who has published
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings
(London:
Routledge, 2008).
Kudos to David Ray Vance,
whose book of poetry,
Vitreous, appears in the Poetry
Foundation's Contemporary Best Seller's List for a
second time (Del
Sol Press, 2007).
Kudos to Bernadette Andrea, who has
published
Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature
(Cambridge, 2007).
The Department of English, Classics, and
Philosophy hosted an awards ceremony honoring 2008
graduates and scholarship recipients.
Dr. Sonia
Saldívar-Hull and the English Department's
first PhD graduate, Dr. Lori Rodriguez
2008 English
Masters Graduates
The 2008 Kenneth Alan
Hovey Memorial Scholarship
recipient, Robyn Glasscock, and Helen Eisaman, a
founder of the scholarship
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Alumni
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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.
In the classroom
Village school
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/.
More Faculty
Achievements
More Alumni
Achievements
Creative Writing at UTSA
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The Department of
English, Classics, and Philosophy is
interdisciplinary in nature and offers a comprehensive
range of courses in the fields of Classical Studies,
English language and literature, Humanities, and
Philosophy. Part of UTSA's
College of
Liberal and Fine Arts, the Department
acknowledges its mission to provide students with both
basic and advanced tools of written, oral, and
electronic communication, and with an understanding of
the culture and literature of the past and the present. The Department's goal
is to produce well-educated scholars, teachers, and
professionals. Reflecting UTSA's location in
South Texas, the Department welcomes the
cultural diversity of its student body and provides
opportunities to study and celebrate that diversity.
Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
Phone: (210) 458-4374
Fax: (210) 458-5366
Office: Main Bldg 2.314 |
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