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November 2024
Professor Ange Mlinko read from her new monograph, Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets (Oxford) at Gainesville community bookstore, The Lynx Books. As mentioned on the Oxford UP website, Difficult Ornaments is about the works that six twentieth-century American poets created in and about the state of Florida–or, in one case, refused to create–that contribute to a psychogeography: a Florida that one can access from anywhere in the world through the pages of their books. The word “ornament” is used by both biologists and literary critics to describe the extras of beauty; but whether it is the encumbrance of a peacock’s tail or the profusion of metaphor, ornaments are also seen as “difficult.” Mlinko’s book explores what it is about “difficult ornaments” that make poems surprising, distinctive, and enduring, as well as whether a proximity to the tropics–nature’s own laboratory–compels poets to reach for invention and experiment.
September 2023
Professor Barbara Mennel, graduate student Alison Walsh, and UF alum Loren Pilcher (University at Buffalo) presented on the panel ‘Labor’s Process: Theory and Documentary in Changing Media Ecologies’ at the Visible Evidence XXIX in Udine, Italy in September 2023. The panel also included Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (University of Chicago). The presentations emerged in part from Dr. Mennel’s fall 2021 graduate seminar Studies in Film: 21st Century Film and Media Theory, in which graduate students read award-winning scholarship in film studies and interviewed scholars on zoom, including Dr. Aguilera Skvirsky, whose book The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Labor won the 2021 Best First Book Prize from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
November 2022
Dr. Rae X. Yan has published an open-source lesson plan on “Victorian Realism, China, and the Politics of Form” as a member of the Undisciplining the Victorian Classrooms digital humanities project working on “Transimperial Networks and East Asia.”
September 2022
Dr. Delia Steverson was invited as a keynote speaker for the 2022 “Race & the Body: The Legacy of Slavery” symposium held at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The symposium brings together scholars from around the world specializing in African American history and literature for fruitful discussions about the legacies of slavery. Her lecture, “‘I would leave my skin a legacy’: Histories of Slave Narratives in African American Literature,” traces the complicated histories of slave narratives — from some of their earliest forms in the 18th century to antebellum and postbellum narratives to 20th century Oral Histories — to examine the legacies of slave testimonies in American historical memory. What then, she asks, is the role of slave narratives in our active remembrance of slavery and how can/do we look beyond book-length narratives to enrich our understanding of slavery’s legacies?
July 2022
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February 2020
David Koehn, ENG/CW, MFA – Poetry 1992
2nd Full Length Book of Poetry: Scatterplot by David Koehn (Omnidawn 2020)
1. Reviewed in Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781632430779
2. University of Chicago Press distribution listing: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo50382549.html
3. Omnidawn Publishing: https://www.omnidawn.com/product/scatterplot-david-koehn/
4. And you can find me teaching with Brenda Hillman, Hoa Nguyen, Craig Santos Perez, and Carl Philips at the Omnidawn 2020 Poetry Conference: http://www.omnidawn.com/conference/
January 2020
Michael Hammerle, in the capacity of EiC, produced Issue Two of Middle House Review released early January, 2020. To close out 2019, he had a memoir “Congratulations” published by Split Lip Magazine. He also had a short story “One Bird In-Hand is Worth Ten in the Bush” published by Bull: Men’s Fiction. Split Lip Magazine followed up his memoir with a feature and a short interview.
Kevin Cooley has been named the 2020 Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award winner by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library at Ohio State University. This $2500 award will fund work on his forthcoming projects “Queer Beyond Here: Animated Sex and How To Get Used to It,” and his biography of the forgotten cartoonist, George O. Frink.
December 2019
Karina A. Vado‘s essay, “We Bleed in Mestizaje: Corporeal Utopias and Mestiza Futurities in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro” appears in Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society.
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