Calendar

January 28: Word Garden, 8PM (Lindsay Lloyd, Laura Pond, Alli Dillard, and Sarah Wilson (UCA))

February 2: “The Art of True Crime Writing: A Panel Discussion with Gene Lyons and Mara Leveritt,” 7:30PM, Reves Recital Hall (Murphy)

April 3: “An Evening with Murphy Visiting Poet Michael Ondaatje,”  7:30PM, Staples Auditorium (Murphy)

April 12: “Running the Books: A Campus Visit by Avi Steinberg,” 7:30PM, Reves Recital Hall (Murphy and Crain-Maling)

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Student News

Senior Hanna Al-Jibouri will be a Teach for America Corps Member next year. Congratulations, Hanna!

Seven students attended the 2011 Nebraska Summer Writer’s Conference: Sydnee Abernathy, Hanna Al-Jibouri, Lauren Bowden, Sarah Ghadina, Beth Pond, Tess Stewart, and Krystal Suit.

Five students attended the 2011 Nimrod Conference for Writers and Readers: Matthew Tillett, Joanna Jonson, Trevor Trietsch , Johnny English, and William Repass.  

Amanda Blackmon won a scholarship to The Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers. The scholarship was one of five available to college students in Arkansas.  

William Repass completed a Murphy Summer Internship with the Toad Suck Review.

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Faculty News

Dorian Stuber has new and forthcoming work on voluntarism in Lanzmann, Godard, and Sontag (Screen Machine, August 2011) and on witnessing in Holocaust literatures (Critical Insights: War (2012), edited by Alex Vernon). Two reviews of recent modernist scholarship also appear in Choice. He will present two papers at the January 2012 meeting of the Modern Language Association. 

Toni Wall Jaudon presented papers this semeester at the inaugural meeting of the Early Caribbean Literary History Society and the American Studies Association. She will also present a paper at the January 2012 meeting of the Modern Language Association.

Tyrone Jaeger recently published stories in Southern Humanities Review, Eclipse, and West Branch Wired. His story “So Many True Believers” will appear in The Oxford American in 2012. He also held residencies and fellowships at Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow. Eureka Springs, AR (March 2011) and the Hambidge Center for the Arts in Rabun Gap, GA and gave readings around Central Arkansas.

Hope Coulter has poems forthcoming in Rattle, Tipton Poetry Journal, and vox poetica. She was interviewed and read a poem in The Porter Prize: Encouragement For a Young Writer, a documentary film directed by Gabe Gentry and released in spring 2011, and read a short memoir in the Tales from the South series (Starving Artist Cafe, North Little Rock, AR, Aug. 16, 2011)--posted on the Public Radio Exchange at http://www.prx.org/pieces/68251#description . She also received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing (fiction and poetry) from Queens University of Charlotte in May 2011.

The department welcomed two new members, Amanda Hagood (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Environmental Studies) and Toni Wall Jaudon (Assistant Professor in English, specializing in American literatures before 1900).

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Alumni News

Kelsey White completed an internship with The Oxford American.

Matthew Sharos is attending Columbia College Chicago's Poetry MFA program.

Tym Wojcik is an intern at the Levine Greenberg Literary Agency.

Mason Boling is attending law school at the University of Arkansas.

Adam Iddings is living in Fortaleza, Brazil, where he is employed teaching English.

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Other News

Hendrix is 24th in the nation in the percentage of graduates who earn a Ph.D. in English!

Faculty contact: Toni Wall Jaudon      Student Contact:Caufield Schnug