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S A N TA C L A R A U N I V E R S I T Y Creative Writing and Santa Clara Review News This year the English Department and Creative Writing Program sponsored poetry readings by SCU alumni Peter Verbica and Janice Dabney and SCU faculty members Tim Myers and Philip Kobylarz, a fiction and nonfiction reading by SCU alumnus and faculty member Mike Malone, and a storytelling event with SCU faculty members Tim Myers and Andy Garavel. The Santa Clara Review, the Creative Writing Program, and the Department of English inaugurated an ambitious reading series this past year: Writing Forward featured Pulitzer-Prizewinning poet Gerald Stern, Lenore Marshall Prize winner and NEA/Guggenheim poet Rigoberto Gonzalez, and New York Times columnist and nonfiction author Katie Hafner. (A student interview with Gerald Stern may be heard at Santaclarareview.com—Mr. Stern said the questions made it one of the best interviews he had ever given).

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Remembering Fr. Theodore Rynes, SJ, 1921 – 2015 By Christine (Long) Brunkhorst, English, ’83

When I took my first job as an English teacher years after I’d graduated from Santa Clara, I called the best teacher I knew: Fr. Ted Rynes, S.J. “How do you do that daily paragraph thing?” I asked. “How does that work?” I took notes at my kitchen table, trying to get his system down. Fr. Rynes was a good man and a dedicated teacher, and for many of us, he was a mentor and friend. Fr. Rynes taught English at Santa Clara for 45 years. He taught 18th and 19th century British Lit, The Bible as Literature, Literature and Religion, and English 20 among others. I used to joke that he’d given the University two careers instead of one, that he deserved two retirement packages—not that the man would ever retire. He would say, “I will keep teaching for as long as I’m effective.” And judging by student evaluations, the number of former students who went on to become teachers, and all the friends and former students bewildered by his passing, he was indeed effective.

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“He ruled the classroom,” recalls Chris Bruno, ’84. “He was like a casuallyattired Abe Lincoln who’d escaped an assassination attempt and thereafter threw his life into religion. In a knit tie and a suit, he skirted the edge of conformity just enough to be intimidating. He read every poem with the gravity of the Gettysburg Address.” There are teachers dedicated to their craft and knowledgeable about their subjects, but Fr. Rynes was more. With him you had an advocate, a man of high expectations, and an example. What many of us learned from Ted Rynes was that you don’t have to conquer the world, or make a lot of money, or be important—you just have to love literature, think deeply, and serve others. He will be deeply missed. Table of Contents Remembering Father Theodore Rynes, SJ....1 Creative Writing and Santa Clara Review..2, 8 Canterbury Program.......................................2 Chair’s Corner................................................3 SCU Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta...................3 LEAD Students and Faculty Conference.........4 The English Club............................................4 Introducing New Faculty...............................5 Writing Award Winners and Honorees...........5 Student, Alumni and Faculty Achievements...6 Stay Connected with the English Dept...........8

Canterbury Program by Jill Goodman

Each year, one to three Canterbury Fellows are chosen to develop and complete indepth projects of their own design. The fellowship gives students an opportunity to work closely with faculty members on year-long projects in literary analysis, pedagogy, or business or creative writing. Students use Canterbury funds for books and supplies as well as for travel to workshops, conferences, and archives. The Canterbury is a prestigious and competitive award that interested juniors apply for through a formal proposal – usually about 20 pages long – that a committee of faculty members judges on the following criteria: quality of the proposal; significance, originality, and breadth of the project; and faculty recommendations of students’ intellectual promise and motivation. At the Senior Dinner on May 26th, we celebrated the 2014-15 Canterbury Fellows -- Sabrina Barretto, Sabine Hoskinson, and Jacob Wilber. All three of these students wrote creative writing projects: Sabrina worked with Professors Kirk Glaser and Ted

Rynes on her collection of poems: “Fields of Splendor,” Sabine worked with Professors

the faculty as well as students and family members were there to hear the fellows read excerpts from their work. And, finally, this is our first group of fellows to submit their completed projects to the library’s Scholar Commons site. Soon their projects will be available through the Commons, providing wider access to their work and giving the Canterbury Program more visibility. https:// scholarcommons.scu.edu/

projects that are very ambitious, and both projects grow out of work they have been doing since their first year at Santa Clara. Natalie is working with Professor Cynthia Mahamdi on a collection of linked historical short stories. Helena is working with Professor Stephen Carroll (and Julie Hughes in the art department) to create an art installation piece that brings to life (and comments on) a fantasy short story.

Jill Goodman and Diane Dreher on her collection of personal essays entitled “Ojai, Ohio, Italy, Home,” and Jacob worked with Professors Simone Billings and Cruz Medina on creative

Members of this year’s Canterbury Council – Professors Simone Billings, Diane Dreher, Judith Dunbar, Kirk Glaser, Jill Goodman, Cruz Medina, Aparajita Nanda, and Ted Rynes

From its beginning in 1997 with a generous endowment from alumna Katherine Woodall, the program, one of the highlights of the English Department, has now funded 41 students to do advanced, independent study. The Canterbury Program is also able to aid majors with travel funds for research and conferences from the Reverend Theodore Rynes, S.J., Canterbury Fellowship. All alumni who wish to enable future English majors to continue having such opportunities are invited to donate to either the Canterbury Program general fund or to the Father Theodore Rynes travel fund specifically (Please see the article elsewhere in The Quill that celebrates Fr. Rynes’s life of dedication to his students and the University).

For the first time in the department’s history, the fellows organized their own small writing group: they met monthly throughout the academic year to share their work, workshop their papers, and support each other in their writing. nonfiction essays entitled “Children of the False Garden, a Collection.” Particularly hard working and energetic, these 3 students were responsible for a number of “firsts.” For the first time in the department’s history, the fellows organized their own small writing group: they met monthly throughout the academic year to share their work, workshop their papers, and support each other in their writing. The three fellows also planned and promoted the first Canterbury spring reading, which was held on May 13th in the St. Clare Room at the Learning Commons. Many of

– were delighted to receive a large number of original and thought-provoking proposals for next year’s program. The Council is happy to announce the 2015-16 Canterbury Scholars: Natalie Grazian and Helena Alfajora. Both of these students have developed

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Chair’s Corner: On Relatability and Difficulty by Michelle Burnham

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By now, everyone has probably heard about the scientific study published in Science which finds that reading literary fiction enhances our capacity for empathy, making us better able to identify with the feelings and perspectives of others. Here’s how David Comer Kidd, one of the psychologists who conducted the study, explains it: “What great writers do is to turn you into the writer. In literary fiction, the incompleteness of the characters turns your mind to trying to understand the minds of others.” The study also concludes that these effects do not bear out for readers of popular or pulp fiction, or for non-fiction. Not long after this news story started circulating, an article in Slate by Rebecca Onion reported that students were suddenly using the word “relatable” to judge the value of books they’re assigned to read in high school and college—expressing appreciation for stories whose characters and content they feel able to “relate” to while dismissing those they find “unrelatable.” The problem, as Onion and others point out, is that such a criteria leaves us reading more and more about what we already know and feel, and keeps us from the challenge of engaging with the unfamiliar—whether the unfamiliar is a distant historical era, a different culture or worldview, or a use of language or form that takes patience and work to begin to understand. After all, who wouldn’t find it easier to settle down with Gone Girl, A Fault in Our Stars, or some comic books, than with Sea of Poppies, an Elizabethan drama, or Emily Dickinson’s poems? This Spring, the English Department hosted a roundtable discussion titled “Remix*Reboot*Remake: Recycling Pop Culture,” where pairs of faculty and students opened debate by considering the creative value and meaning of fan fiction, music sampling, detective fiction, and comic books. The lively and fascinating discussion which followed suggested that there is something to be gained by reading both literary and popular fiction, difficult and easier texts, relatable and unrelatable books. In fact, it may be crucial to read both kinds of texts together; after all, a careful reading of Gone Girl reveals that Gillian Flynn may be remaking the plot of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, just as John Green is remixing some Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Frederick Douglass, and Anne Frank into A Fault in our Stars. If the project of social justice entails an ability to experience empathy for those whose lives or experiences do not resemble our own, then the future of the world just might depend, among other things, on our willingness to read challenging literary texts. But it might also depend on our ability to translate difficult texts into more relatable ones. Are there any “difficult” books that have changed the way you see yourself or the world? Have any “relatable” books been crucial to your development as a reader or writer? Should students be required to read difficult or unfamiliar literary texts? Should they also be invited to read pulp or popular fiction? Which texts have made you a better reader and writer and thinker? What’s on your recommended reading list? Go to our English Department blog to share your responses to these questions and your comments on this issue of the Quill. We look forward to hearing from you!

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In 2015, the SCU chapter of Sigma Tau Delta welcomed 19 new members to its group; they range from high sophomores to seniors. The chapter celebrates the three members -- junior Natalie Grazian and seniors Sabine Hoskinson and Jacob Wilbers -- who represented SCU at the annual convention, held in Albuquerque NM March 18-22, 2015. Sabine read a piece of creative nonfiction: “Floating in the Mediterranean”; Jacob read “Colored Vision: Identity in DeLillo’s White Noise”; and Natalie read “The Upside to Nightmares.” They also enjoyed attending talks by convention speakers Gary Soto and Leslie Marmon Silko. Next year’s officers – Natalie Grazian, President; Helena Isabella Alfajora, Vice-President; and Joseph Sanfilippo, Teasurer – are looking forward to next year’s convention March 2-5, 2016, in Minneapolis MN with its theme “Finding Home.” Cosponsors Michael Lasley and Simone J. Billings

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loved being around the professors from SCU who expressed feelings of FOMO (fear of missing out) when deciding which session to attend. I This Spring, faculty members Tricia Serviss and Cruz Medina, along with six LEAD students, attended the Computers and Writing conference at the University of Wisconsin, Stout, where they presented their research on the use of iPads in firstyear writing courses. The students’ conference travel was supported by undergraduate travel grants from the Office of the Provost. Faculty member Julia Voss also attended the conference.

Being a first generation college student from a low income family, I was exhilarated to be given the opportunity to share my experiences with technology in the classroom to a scholarly audience. Growing up, I was never exposed to academic programs held outside of college, so I never dreamed of attending a national conference, let alone presenting at one. I was honored when my English LEAD professor invited me to speak at my first national conference. Overall, not only was it an educational experience, listening in on many great talks to

even found myself in the same position multiple times because I did not know that there could be so many interesting subjects covered under one field. After attending the conference, I felt as if it was my duty to share my experiences with others, especially with the younger generations. I want to enlighten others about the academic parlors existing around the world and encourage them to join the conversation. Not only can they learn something new by looking at a topic from a different perspective, they can also have fun by meeting new people who share common interests. I always share my stories with my younger cousins in the hopes of motivating them to take the

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The English Club by Michael Lasley

The English Club was rebooted for the 2014-15 school year. The club wanted to find new ways for students and faculty to engage with each other (and with ideas) outside of the classroom. Three students – Addison Beck, Avery Unterreiner, and Frankie Bastone – helped organize and host four events over the course of the year. During the Fall Quarter, the club hosted a screening of The Fault in Our Stars, an adaptation of the novel by John Green. During the Spring Quarter, Michelle Burnham organized an alumni panel, an event that gave students a chance to hear from six of our alumni about the ways their English studies inform their careers. The club also sponsored two traditional storytelling nights. The first night featured Tim Myers, and the second night featured Tim Myers and Andrew Garavel. We are looking forward to hosting more events next school year.

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Introducing New Faculty The English Department welcomes two new faculty members in 2015-16: Assistant Professor Amy Lueck and Academic Year Adjunct Lecturer David Keaton. Read the full interviews (including the speed round) with Amy and David on our website. Amy Lueck: I completed my undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing at Loyola University Chicago, and am excited to be part of a Jesuit community once again. I completed my Master’s at University of Pittsburgh and recently received my PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from University of Louisville, where I conducted research on the formation of public high schools in the nineteenthcentury US. An article drawn from this project, “’A Maturity of Thought Very Rare in Young Girls’: Women’s Public Engagement in Nineteenth-Century Commencement Essays,” was recently published in Rhetoric Review, and I am pursuing other articles as well as a book-length project from this research as well. Why SCU? I’m excited to join SCU because of their strong liberal arts tradition, close faculty and student community, research and teaching support, and beautiful campus. I can’t wait to learn even more reasons to love SCU over the years. What do you do in your spare time? I am very project-oriented, so I usually like to spend my spare time pursuing some kind of art or craft project. For instance, this summer I muddled my way through the reupholstering of a wing-back chair and an ottoman. I also enjoy yoga, cross-stitching and taking very long walks. Oh, and Hulu. I spend a lot of time with Hulu.

David Keaton: I received my BFA in Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University and my MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, where I worked closely with Chuck Kinder on finishing my first massive, unpublishable novel. But now that this is out of my system, I’ve since placed fifty or so pieces of fiction and nonfiction in various publications, as well as published two novels and two collections of short stories. My first collection, Fish Bites Cop! Stories to Bash Authorities, was named the 2013 Short Story Collection of the Year by This Is Horror and was a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award, and my first novel, The Last Projector (Broken River Books) was recently released in a more portable paperback edition. I’m currently working on a fiction project that deals with the current police abuses in our country and the attempts to rectify this with new technology such as body cameras. Why SCU? I have been very impressed with the information I continue to discover regarding SCU’s incredible faculty and campus. I’m also fascinated by SCU’s long history (the longest in California, right?), as well as their wonderful stable of writers. What do you do in your spare time? Lately, I’ve relegated most of my spare time to some last-minute writing projects. There have been a couple short-story invites for upcoming anthologies that I hope to finish up this week before I put this computer in a box and chase it to California. I’m also an avid movie watcher, and for no good reason, I collect games for the long-defunct Atari Lynx “handheld” (I put that in scare quotes because it’s notoriously unwieldy). Useless trivia Tobey Maguire was the little kid in the original Atari Lynx television commercial. His is the only success story I could find regarding this game system.

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Writing Award Winners and Honorees from 2014-2015 Jacob Wilbers Winner of the Christiaan Lievestro Prize for his portfolio “The Proper Use of Colorblindness in America’s Educational System,” “Becoming Human: Character Growth in Rasselas,” “Women and World Order: The Peculiar Place and Power of Females in Hamlet” Patrick McDonell Winner of the Katherine Woodall Prize for his essay “Creating the Elevator: The Creation of Place in Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio” Forrest Nguyen Winner of the Tamara Verga Prize for his poem [untitled: Ghazal] Kalyn Josephson Winner of the McCann Short Story Contest for her short story “A Bit Scruffy” Sabrina Barreto Winner of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for her poem “Summer Glimpses” Marissa Martinez, Max Nguyen, Erin Root and Max Silva Winners of the Multimodal Writing Prize for their anti-privilege campaign: “Beyond Guilt: Solidarity Through Action” Natalie Grazian and Helena Isabella Alfajora Canterbury Scholars 2015-2016 Addison Beck, Frankie Bastone and Avery Unterreiner English Club Officers 2015-2016 Jacob Lans and TJ Brown Editors of the Santa Clara Review 2015-2016

Student, Alumni, and Faculty Achievements

Mary Robinson, (’15) LEAD Scholar, and HUB tutor has been accepted in Stanford’s STEP program for secondary English. She has already begun her studies for the Master’s in Teaching and a secondary credential. Eddie Solis, (’15) English and Communication major (and LEAD Scholar), was recently selected as the student recipient of the Broncos Read Award for 201516! Eddie was recognized for his love of reading, his work with the Santa Clara student newspaper The Santa Clara, and the way he embodies the values of the university. Julianne Payaro, (’12) (double major in English and Music, both magna cum laude) has received an extension of her Fulbright from the Fulbright Commission for 2015-16. Julianne will be teaching at the University of Warsaw and will be mentoring the new cohort of ETAs as part of the Fulbright Commission team. Simone Billings has worked on the 6th edition of The WellCrafted Argument with Fred White – and is excited that two of her CTW students from FallWinter 2014-15 will have their final papers from Winter 2015

published in the 6th edition, which will be out in January 2016. In Fall 2014,Billings served as a reviewer of student submissions for the annual convention of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English Honor Society for undergraduate and graduate English majors and minors. In Winter 2015, Billings completed a 5-week MOOC called “Shaping the Way We Teach English: The Landscape of English Language Teaching,” a course in teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. Also in Winter, Billings chaired a session at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, “Exploring Identifies: Embodied and Disembodied,” as well as attending breakfast meetings of the Writing Program Administrators and the Jesuit Programs Writing Program Administrators (besides going to various sessions). In Spring 2015, Billings piloted a hybrid Advanced Writing course, attended the Spring meeting of the Northern California-Nevada affiliate of Writing Program Administrators since she was president this year of that affiliate, was a stage 1 reviewer for submissions to the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication, and interviewed

applicants for Phi Beta Kappa. In Summer 2015, she was a moderator of one and a respondent to another session at The Young Rhetoricians Conference. In August she also will serve again as a Discipline-Specific Reviewer for US applicants in English for Fulbright Scholar grants. Phyllis Brown and Kevin Visconti (Leavey School of Business) represented Santa Clara University at the 4th convening of the Aspen Undergraduate Business Education Consortium, hosted this year at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business June 7-9. Phyllis and Kevin were invited to report on a study of ePortfolios and Pathway reflection essays in the open plenary session and then to lead discussion of the project in the following session. Their work involves collaboration with Christine Bachen (Communication Department and Director of Assessment), Susan Parker (Accounting Department), and Andrea Brewster (Curriculum Manager for ELSJ) in conjunction with their multi-year study of ePortfolios as a tool to deepen learning related to Core Pathways. Phyllis has served on the Advisory Board for the Consortium for the last two years. Michelle Burnham published a review essay, “Literary Recovery in an Age of Austerity,” in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 32.1 (2015): 122-32. She edited volume 44 of the scholarly journal Studies in EighteenthCentury Culture, which was published in March 2015. Michelle will also be serving as a reviewer for the ACLS Fellowship Program in 2015-16.

Diane Dreher received her Master’s degree in Counseling with a Health Psychology emphasis this June. In Fall 2014, she published an empirical article with David Feldman and Robert Numan, “Controlling parents survey: Measuring the influence of parental control on personal development in college students,” in the College Student Affairs Journal. Her vocation identity questionnaire (Dreher, Holloway, & Schoenfelder, 2007) was used in the University of Chicago Medical School’s national study of vocation in medical students, published this year in Teaching and Learning in Medicine. She published a chapter, “Leading with compassion: A moral compass for our time,”in The psychology of compassion and cruelty: Understanding the emotional, spiritual, and religious influences, edited by Thomas G. Plante, and presented her findings in an “Ethics at Noon” panel on leadership in April. Her article, “’To tell my story’”: Grief and selfdisclosure in Hamlet,” was accepted for publication this spring by the interdisciplinary journal, Illness, Crisis, and Loss. This year Diane served as president of our campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Faculty Senate representative for the English Department, and a member of the Faculty Senate Task Force on Salaries and University Budget Priorities. She was elected president-elect of the Faculty Senate for 2015-16, and will be on sabbatical, working on her next book, in Fall 2015. Andy Garavel’s article, “A Dublin Rape of the Lock: John Wilson Croker’s Amazoniad” has been published in Eighteenth Century

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Ireland. He has been serving as peer reviewer for The Irish University Review. On May 28, he and Tim Myers performed “An Evening of Storytelling” in the St. Clare Room, sponsored by the English Department and the University Library. Andy has been named to the Leadership Board of the College of Arts and Sciences. Kirk Glaser had two poems appear this year in Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry, eight poems in The Sand Hill Review, one poem in The T.J. Eckleberg Review, and one poem in De La Mancha.

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Jill Goodman was the faculty recipient of the Broncos Read Award for 2014-15. This University Library Award is given to faculty, student, staff and alumni for their contributions to the university, for their love of reading, and because they embody the values of the university. Jill Goodman received the College of Arts and Sciences Dr. John B. Drahmann Advising Award, 2013-14. This was awarded in September, 2014, for “extraordinary dedication to student welfare through wise, informed, effective, and caring counsel” and for demonstrating “the ability to motivate other teachers and learners.” In late summer 2014, Jill Goodman and Gail Gradowski published an article in the Oral History Review entitled “Using Online Video Oral Histories to Engage Students in Authentic Research.” Oral History Review. 41.2 (2014): 341-50.

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Novel conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and gave an invited public lecture, “From Tom of Finland to Vera Wang: Stonewalling Stonewall,” in Humboldt University’s W.E.B. DuBois’s lecture series. Ron Hansen’s novel A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion was the subject of the keynote address (“A Plea in Favour of Guilt”) by French critic Adrian Grafe at the University of Bucharest on June 5th. Jackie Hendricks presented a paper entitled “Criseyde Becomes Cresseid Becomes Criseyde: Chaucer’s, Henryson’s, and 16th-century Printers’ Negotiation of shared Literary Space” at the annual Medieval Association of the Pacific conference held in Reno, NV in April. She has since developed it into an article that she is submitting to be considered for publication. Miah Jeffra was awarded the Lambda Literary Fellowship in Nonfiction, and was a Writer’s Grotto LitCamp attendee in fiction. Jeffra is also a featured reader at the BeastCrawl Literary Festival, through Pandemonium Press, in July. Maria Judnick will be presenting “Learning to Vary Sentence Structures” at her fourth AANAPISI (Asian American Native American Pacific Islander) Pedagogy Workshop at SJSU in June 2015. She continues to blog for KQED Pop and recently celebrated publishing her thirtieth post for the website. Nick Leither published Cook and Tell: Recipes and Their Stories at Santa Clara University. The book, edited in collaboration with Maura Tarnoff and Stefanie

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Silva, collects twenty-three recipes and their accompanying narratives, written by SCU first-year students in Critical Thinking and Writing. The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review at John Hopkins University published his story, “Indications,” in June. He continues to publish and edit collaborative writing on a blog he created for student work called Tense Present. Michael S. Malone’s book The Intel Trinity, published last summer, was named the Best Business Book of 2014 by 800-CEO-READ, beating out the likes of Walter Isaacson’s latest book. His new book, Team Genius (HarperCollins), coauthored with Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard, comes out in July. Cost of Goods Sold, the second novel in his ‘Silicon Valley Quartet’ will be published later this month. The second edition of his award-winning history, 4 Percent, was published last month. Besides teaching English 71 for the first time, Malone has also filled his days writing editorials for the Wall Street Journal, averaging one per month so far in 2015. He is currently writing under contract the pilot to a new television series. Cruz Medina’s book Reclaiming Poch@ Pop: Examining the Rhetoric of Cultural Deficiency was published by Palgrave MacMillan at the beginning of 2015. At the 2015 College Composition and Communication Conference, Cruz presented on his book as a part of a panel on self-identification with senior scholars in rhetoric and composition. Cruz’s coverage of the conference was featured prominently on NCTE’s website. In March, Cruz co-authored an article in Present Tense: A Journal of

Rhetoric in Society that advocated for the ethical consideration of the experiences of people living in Arizona when discussing recent legislation. Cruz was also invited to present to community college faculty on culturally relevant rhetorical analysis as a part of the Puente program housed on UC Berkeley’s campus. As a part of Trish Serviss & Simone Billings’ Bannan Grant on writing, Cruz presented on multimodal writing and the Jesuit tradition on the Santa Clara University campus. In May, Cruz presented at the 2015 national conference for Computers and Writing at University of Wisconsin, Stout along with Trish Serviss and six undergraduate Santa Clara students in the LEAD program on the use of iPads in CTW courses. In June, Cruz has a short chapter in a collection called Teaching Latino/a Literature in the 21st Century along with Juan Velasco. Tim Myers’ new book of poetry, Nectar of Story, is out June 17th from BlazeVOX Press. Tim’s published three short stories, with PIF Magazine, Storytelling, and Exterminating Angel Magazine respectively, has an article on the Orpheus myth with Los Angeles Review of Books, an article with the Colorado College Bulletin, and three poems in an anthology about siblings. Loring Pfeiffer successfully defended her dissertation, “The Politics of Desire: English Women Playwrights, Partisanship, and the Staging of Female Sexuality, 16601737,” on May 1. The English Department will soon be updating its website! Please help us determine how it can best serve alumni by completing our upcoming alumni survey, which will arrive via email this Fall. Send updates of your email address in advance to our website.

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Writing Forward builds on the reading series previously tied to Review publication parties that brought to SCU notable poets and fiction writers such as Robert Hass, Juan Felipe Herrera, Carolyn Forché, Dana Gioia, and Jim Shepard. Writers for the coming year include poet Alexandra Teague (California Book Award winner) on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5-6 PM, St. Clare Room (Learning Commons) and distinguished non-fiction writer Norma Elia Cantú, on Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 4-5 PM, St. Clare Room. All are welcome. The Review and Creative Writing are also working with the College of Arts and Sciences and other campus organizations to bring U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to SCU in Spring 2016 (n.b.: the Review brought him first two years ago). The son of migrant farm workers, Herrera was educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and he earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In addition to publishing more than a dozen collections of poetry, Herrera has written short stories, young adult novels, and children’s literature. We wish to congratulate the following students for their success in the increasingly competitive admissions to MFA in Creative Writing programs: Martin Saunders, ‘12, English major with creative writing emphasis, accepted full scholarship and teaching stipend to attend the MFA program in poetry at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Kelly McMeekin, ‘13, English major with creative writing emphasis, will attend the MFA program in fiction at University of Washington, Bothell. Ellen Paolini, ‘14, English major with creative writing emphasis, accepted full scholarship to attend the MFA program in fiction at Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia. Go green and receive The Quill by email. Send us (english@scu.edu) your email address and we’ll make sure you receive every issue.

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