Think inside the book
Faculty contact:
Alex Vernon
Student Contact:
Adam Iddings
Calendar
Jan 28: Word Garden reading series
Feb 2: ShopTalk poetry workshop with Sandy Longhorn
Feb 11: Word Garden reading series
Feb 11: English Department Discussion series (Murphy Foundation)
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Student News
Oct '09: Hanna Al-Jibouri attended the Nimrod Literary Awards Conference for Readers and Writers at the University of Tulsa. She will spend a month at a poetry workshop in Prague this summer.
Fall '09: Natalie Ramm '10 is an intern at the Oxford American magazine
Oct '09: Kim Herrington '10, Adam Iddings '10, Lauren Rosales '10, Matt Sharos '10, and Kara Stewart '10 conducted research at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Summer '09: Adam Iddings '10 and Taylor Adams '10 received Odyssey Funding to attend the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference.
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Faculty News
Fall '09: Kristi McKim gave an invited lecture, "Cinephilia as Sensual Film History in The Dreamers," at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (Department of Cinema and Photography), and presented a talk on ""Ephemeral Style: Intimate Scale and Subjectivity in Doris Dörrie’s Cherry Blossoms (2008)" at the 2009 World Picture Conference (University of Oklahoma).
Fall '09: Dorian Stuber became a contributing editor for the Bryn Mawr Journal of Comparative Literature as well as reviewer for Choice.
Summer 09: Carol West led a trip for teachers to The Gambia and Senegal funded by a Fulbright grant.
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Alumni News
Douglas A. Blackmon '86 received a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. He also received a 2009 Hendrix Odyssey Medal.
Ben Molini '09 began his Walker Fellowship to study the martial arts in Korea, Russia, and other countries (fall 2009).
Trent Lee Stewart '92 won the 2009 Worthen Prize for his novel set in Arkansas, Flood Summer. His The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma appears in October 2009.
Mark Barr '92 has been awarded a writing residency at the Blue Mountain Center in upstate New York (spring 2009) and has work appearing in the forthcoming Austin Anthology: Emerging Authors of Central Texas (2010).
James Szenher '06 and Marquita Little '05 graduated from the Clinton School of Public Service in May 2009.
Amy Elkins '08 has an essay on Virginia Woolf forthcoming in the Tulsa Journal of Women's Studies.
Bryce “Missy” Williams Reveley ’66 won a 2009 Hendrix Odyssey Medal.
Other News
Coming to campus this academic year: Jorie Graham, Francine Prose, and Art Spiegelman!
Hendrix is 24th in the nation in the percentage of graduates who earn a Ph.D. in English!