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Spring 2014

English Department Newsletter

S A N TA C L A R A U N I V E R S I T Y Creative Writing by Diane Dreher

The Santa Clara Review published two issues of Volume 101 this year, celebrating each event with publication parties that featured internationally recognized poets, student and community readers, and artwork by contributors. Carolyn Forché read at the Issue 1 release on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 4 PM, held in the Fess Parker Studio Theater, and Martín Espada for Issue 2 on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 4 PM at the DeSaisset Museum. The Review has been upgrading its website, www. santaclarareview.com, with photos, blogs, and digital copies of the publications. Congratulations to English major Amy Thomas, Editor-in-Chief, for an outstanding two issues. The Creative Writing Program sponsored poetry readings by Tim Myers on October 10, 2013, in Lucas 208 and Carolyn Grassi and Jim Torrens, S.J., on April 11, 2014, in the Williman Room, Benson Center. English (Continued on page 8)

Digital Humanities at the Doorstep

If you are wondering what direction English departments are taking these days, you might take a look at a new

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volume of essays entitled Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era, edited by Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman. This book argues for a more media-savvy curriculum in which writing and literature play their parts, but in which other media are given their (increasingly) proper due. “Digital Humanities” are gaining broad acceptance as a compelling component in literary studies, in history, archeology, classics, art history, religious studies, and many other fields as newly minted PhD’s enter departments with a welcome set of skills that offer a

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refreshing tonic to what we can do in English, and how we define what it is that we are all about as a discipline. Of course, as with any evolution, there are ongoing debates about the benefits and liabilities of these new emphases: the arguments are well-summarized in Ryan Cordell’s May 8, 2014, blog, entitled “On Ignoring Encoding” (http://ryan.cordells. us/blog/2014/05/08/on-ignoring-encoding/). But there can be no doubt that this is where our department is headed. As with our newly streamlined requirements for our English major, we expect that this breath of fresh air will encourage students to take a new look at our protean discipline. Table of Contents Digital Humanities at the Doorstep................1 Creative Writing..........................................2, 8 First Year Reflection.......................................2 Chair’s Corner................................................3 SCU Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta...................3 The Writing Program.....................................4 In England.....................................................4 Suggested Readings.....................................4 Tricia Serviss joins the English Department....5 Writing Award Winners and Honorees...........5 Student, Alumni and Faculty Achievements...6 Stay Connected with the English Dept...........8

First Year Reflection by Julia Voss

Although my first year at Santa Clara has had its share of challenges (who could forget The Great Moving Fire?), as I reflect on my first year here I’m struck by two things: how quickly SCU has begun to feel like home and how the work and the colleagues I’ve encountered here have encouraged and inspired me.

to cultivate. The institutional mission and the research support I’ve found here have helped me realize a research agenda that I’d only begun to envision, and have offered me a way to integrate myself into the university community through my scholarship. My teaching has also developed in ways I couldn’t have foreseen before coming to Santa Clara. Using a CTW sequence, themed around the culture and future of American higher education, has enabled me to implement a multimedia ethnographic research

As lucky as I felt to join the department this fall, spending the school year working alongside my new colleagues in the department, getting to know SCU students, and finding my place at this institution has opened up new avenues for my teaching and research. I’ve found Santa Clara to be incredibly supportive of my research agenda as I build on previous work and move into new projects. Landing here during the early phases the Facilities Master Plan building project has provided opportunities to expand my ongoing interest in the relationship between physical classroom design and learning. Working with Media Services, the Office of Institutional Research, and the Faculty Teaching Collaborative, I’ve been able to set up a year-long study of Santa Clara’s remodeled pilot classrooms to examine how the design features in these rooms (white board walls, mobile desks, multiple screens, etc.) contribute to the active learning SCU’s Integrated Strategic Plan seeks

project that I’ve been planning for a long time. Students designed their own ethnographic studies of campus subcultures, collecting primary data using participant observation, interviews, surveys, and document analysis to answer the research questions they posed. They shared their findings at Residential Learning Community-sponsored events, inviting research participants, campus stakeholders, and members of the department to see their final multimedia projects. As I continue refining this course and project over the next year, I’m looking forward to learning more about Santa Clara myself as I work with students to thinking critically and deeply about the university community they’re joining.

First Year Reflection by Cruz Medina

At graduation, Juliana Chang asked me, “Is this only your first year? It feels like longer.” It has, indeed, been a momentous year. I began fall 2013 in the first year of what is normally a two year Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellowship, having received the generous offer and support from Eileen, John, and Simone. I loved teaching the two course CTW sequence for the LEAD scholars program, and collaborating with Jill Gould, Michael Lasley, and Rob Michalski on the second year of piloting the iPad program. One of the main benefits of the Inclusive Excellence Postdoc—in addition to the excellent faculty mentors of Diane, Juan and Pedro (in Education)—is the teaching responsibilities. Teaching only one course per quarter, I was able to attend two national conferences and one regional. In October, I presented for the first time at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference in

Vancouver, Washington. At the 2014 College Composition and Communication Conference (CCCC) in Indianapolis, Indiana, I was both surprised and honored to find my panel was a featured panel of the conference (the chair of my panel, Cindy Selfe, was also honored with the CCCC Exemplar Award.) And then in May, I presented at the Rhetoric Society of America conference in San Antonio, Texas, where Simone introduced me to rhetoric and writing faculty from other Jesuit institutions. The Postdoc also provided me with both time and mentoring for my scholarship. Juan and I worked together in fall on chapters we wrote for the same collection on teaching Latino/a literature. Juan also provided me with invaluable feedback on the monograph that I am submitting this summer. July 2014 also holds some significance in my household because the projected due date for my second son is July 2nd. Along those lines, the support of my partner Kathryn has been fundamental to my travels and writing. This coming 2013-14 school year will also be exciting as I transition from postdoc, joining Julia and Trish as an Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Composition. I want to end by thanking everyone who attended my job talk and interviews this past spring— this occasion was excellent for learning more about many of you as colleagues and, more importantly, as people.

Chair’s Corner by John Hawley and Simone Billings

This summer Simone Billings and I completed our three-year term as co-chairs of the department. Over that period we guided the department through a review of its program by two external observers, and then implemented potentially significant changes to our English major. We hired three tenure-track members in rhetoric and composition, and began a search for two more this Fall: one in rhetoric and composition and one in African American Studies. We had two post-doctoral fellows here, and we hosted, for the first time, a foreign Visiting Scholar: Professor Qian Wang from Beijing. One of our members (Andy Garavel, S.J.) achieved tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, and five of our lecturers (Kirk Glaser, Stephen Carroll, Tim Myers, Cynthia Mahamdi, and Aparajita Nanda) achieved advancement to Senior Lecturer. Jill Gould, Dolores LaGuardia, and Denise Krane began a tradition of a Fall English Major Faire. Departmental participation in national and international conferences is strong, and our publications are mentioned in a growing number of articles by other scholars. Jefferson Dela Cruz implemented snazzy improvements to our website, with the inclusion of testimonials from English alumni and the creation and maintenance of a Facebook page and a Twitter account. We

Departmental participation in national and international conferences is strong, and our publications are mentioned in a growing number of articles by other scholars. are very pleased that in the last three years we have heard from many English alumni and been able to share with you their impressive accomplishments. We forged connections regionally and nationally with other writing program administrators and facilitated the delivery of student papers at the annual convention of Sigma Tau Delta. We were saddened by the sudden death of Dolores LaGuardia, founder of the University writing center, and of Betty Moran. Professor Moran joined the department in 1963 as one of three women faculty at the University, and was the first woman to gain tenure in the College of Arts and Sciences. We are both pleased that we are leaving the department in strong shape for the new leadership team of Michelle Burnham (Chair), Juliana Chang (Associate Chair of Literature and Cultural Studies), and Terry Beers (Associate Chair of Writing).

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SCU Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta at the Portland Oregon convention – March 2014

At the end of February, two of our students represented Santa Clara at the annual Sigma Tau Delta International Convention in Savannah, Georgia. Zach Milkis presented a piece of fiction titled “Autocritique.” Jacob Wilbers presented an essay titled “Becoming Human: Character Growth in Rasselas.” Both Zach and Jacob gave excellent presentations, and both of their pieces generated several questions, which they did an outstanding job of addressing. Because the convention was held in a city with a great literary tradition, we were able to visit a couple of places with interesting histories. We ate at a restaurant called The Pirate’s House, which is (possibly) the oldest building in Georgia. In the restaurant are some rare pages from one of the earliest editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, and the owners claim that the pirate who inspired the character Captain Flint in Treasure Island died in the house. (I’m not sure anyone believes them, though.) We also visited the childhood home of Flannery O’Connor. As we were shown first editions of her books and different parts of the house, we listened to stories illustrating O’Connor’s truly unique personality: most memorable were that she taught a chicken to walk backwards, and, in an attempt to keep “friends” from coming over more than once, she hosted tea parties in the bathroom. Cosponsors Michael Lasley and Simone J. Billings

The Writing Program

In England

by Simone Billings

by Sabrina Barreto

In 2014-15, The Writing Program is looking forward to another new tenure-track faculty member In 2013-14, The Writing Program besides Dr. Medina: Dr. Tricia was pleased to see the influx of Serviss comes to us in the Fall new faculty whose primary respon- from Auburn University, and with sibility it is to teach writing. Dr. her interest in community service Julia Voss joined the tenure-track and first-generation students – and faculty, coming from The Ohio in the teaching of information literaUniversity to teach both first-year cy – she will also benefit not just writing and advanced writing class- the first-year writing students she es such as Introduction to Writing will teach but also English majors and Digital Publication. Dr. Cruz in courses such as Writing for Medina joined us as a Inclusive Teachers. Dr. Serviss and Dr. Excellence Post-Doctoral Fellow Simone Billings have received a and taught both first-year writing in Bannan grant for 2014-15 to host the LEAD Program (for first-gener- working groups of faculty, staff, ation students) and Literacy and and students on the topic Social Justice. Both will continue “Developing Jesuit Writing at Santa Clara next year – but Dr. Pedagogy at Santa Clara Medina will begin on the tenureUniversity.” track next year. Both bring excellent skills in teaching both tradition- In 2014-15, The Writing Program al literacies and digital and new will continue with new leadership: media literacies and will help our Dr. Terry Beers as the Associate majors to broaden their underChair of Writing, assisted by Dr. standing of writing beyond the tra- Simone Billings as Director of Core ditional essay and the usual under- Writing. standing of literacy.

Suggested Readings by English Faculty

Michelle Burnham: Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (this meditation on why art matters won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction) J.M Ledgard, Submergence (haunting novel about oceans, utopias, and love) Leslie Glaister, Little Egypt (a novel about twins, Egyptology, family history). John Hawley: Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle. Provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel of dazzling literary originality that is irresistibly readable. Edward St. Aubyn, Lost for Words, comic treatment of literary awards.

The green ground of this land, its boundaries made of chalk, and the grass of centuries past absorb me and drink my body in a slow but single gulp. Our bodies are mapped with stories to outlast the talc lines of the land. Timetables and platforms and polished steel converge with the rise of the conductor’s wave at King’s Cross; trains depart, smoke arrives. We die, we die— so how could I do other than love you?

Diane Dreher: Rebecca Rotert. Last Night at the Blue Angel. Vvisited campus in 2013 (and is Ron Hansen’s niece). Viktor Frankl. Man’s Search for Meaning. New York, NY: Washington Square. Classic work by the Holocaust survivor who found meaning in the direst of circumstances Howard Gardner.(2008). 5 Minds for the Future. Insights on the intellectual skills we need to succeed in today’s complex world. Elizabeth Warren. A Fighting Chance. Memoir by the Massachusetts senator who fights for people’s rights in today’s embattled economy. Robin Tremblay-McGaw: Charles Darwin’s On Natural Selection, a slender volume that not only explains Darwin’s theory in evocative prose, but also attests to the power of metaphor in all types of writing. Yedda Morrison’s Darkness. Did you read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in high school or college? See how one writer, using only white-out, has made Conrad’s novel her own hymn to the darkness of the natural world, fast-fading in an age of climate change. Fred Moten’s new book of poems, The Feel Trio.

Tricia Serviss joins the English Department by Tricia Serviss

I’m delighted to join the English department community this fall! I’ve spent the last four years in the professoriate at Auburn University in Alabama. I am deeply influenced by several ongoing conversations in writing studies about the role of public writing in undergraduate education, calls to writing assessment reform as our ideas of composing expand, and concerns about how students—at all levels— are actually conducting research and writing from sources. I pursued these conversations in several ways: in my work as associate director of composition at Auburn; in my founding of the Community Writing Center of Auburn as a place for students to engage in public writing; and in my continued research with the Citation Project, an ongoing national study of student source use. I’m bringing publications about these experiences to fruition. A new collection I’m editing called Researching Research, for example, brings together new research about student information literacy and source use from across different disciplines with contributions from university librarians, professional and technical writers, composition directors, and writing across the curriculum directors.

My hope is that I will continue such research and program development at Santa Clara, inviting faculty into important conversations about student source use and our pedagogical responses. My chapter reports on my study of new writing teachers who experimented with guided citation analysis of their own academic writing and, in doing so, developed new pedagogical strategies for their classrooms. My hope is that I will continue such research and program development at Santa Clara, inviting faculty into important conversations about student source use and our pedagogical responses, as well as teaching courses focused upon the role of emerging technologies and rhetorical traditions in producing credible, argumentative, research-based writing. The second major thread of my scholarship focuses upon social histories of literacies and rhetorics in the Americas; I aim to complicate notions of literacy educators about what it means to write, make meaning, and be persuasive. I’ve already completed articles and book chapters analyzing: writing assessment traditions obvious in early 20th century New York state literacy tests; literacy and rhetorical practices of activist women in 21st century Ciudad Juarez, Mexico; literacy of activist women in 20th century Argentina. I am now at work on a monograph project focused upon the rhetorical histories of disappearance, as a concept, trope, and political phenomenon for women in the Americas. As a result, I hope to teach courses that introduce students to rhetorical histories and theories of argumentation.

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Writing Award Winners and Honorees from 2013-2014 Kayla Unger Winner of the Katherine Woodall Prize for her essay: “Remains of the Day” Laura Sylvan Winner of the Christiaan Lievestro Prize for his essay “Foer”, “Darcy’s Music”, and “Ana Historic” Navjot Grewal Honorable Mention of the Christiaan Lievestro Prize for the essays: “Weaponizing God in Beowulf: The Discovery of Odin through Arms,” Words of the Wise” Kathryn McAuliffe Winner of the Shipsey Poetry Prize for her poem: “The Spoon Fit Perfectly in my Hand” Nicholas Anthony Winner of the McCann Short Story Contest for her short story: “Nani” Sabrina Barreto Winner of the Academy of American Poets Tamara Verga Prize for her poems “Deceptions”, “Breton Brother and Sister, 1871”, “In England”, and “February” Steven Oliveira and Gordon Chang Winner of the Multimodal Writing Prize for their Prezi: “Dormitories, Communities, and Students” Omar Martin Honorable Mention of the Multimodal Writing Prize for his podcast: “Cultural Context in Sampling” Zach Milkis Winner of a best Pathway essay for this year Jacob Wilbers, Sabine Hoskinson and Sabrina Barreto Canterbury Scholars 2014-2015 Amy Thomas (2013-2014) Jacob Lans (2014-2015) Editors of the Santa Clara Review

Student, Alumni and Faculty Achievements

Congratulations to Jeff Zorn for receiving the The Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence; to Michelle Burnham for receiving the award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship; to Aparajita Nanda for her promotion to Senior Lecturer; to Dolores LaGuardia, for receiving the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service, presented posthumously, and for having been promoted to Senior Lecturer; to Jefferson Dela Cruz for getting accepted into SCU’s graduate School of Education and Counseling Psychology; to John Hawley, for having received a Fulbright Fellowship for Humboldt University in Berlin; to Denise Krane, who was appointed as Director of the HUB Writing Center for a three-year term. In April, Denise Krane and Jill Goodman Gould accompanied two students who presented at the Northern California Writing Centers Association: Karlyse Bailey and Mary Robinson. Simone Billings was elected Vice-President of the Northern California- Nevada Affiliate of the Council of Writing Program

Administrators. She also became one of the volunteer Fulbright alumni to be a discipline-specific reviewer for grant proposals. She presented “Away with Words: Technology and First-Year Writing,” in San Antonio, TX, for writing instructors. With Michael Lasley, she brought Zach Milkis and Jacob Wilbers to present their original work at the Sigma Tau Delta convention in Savannah GA. In San Antonio she joined writing faculty from other Jesuit institutions around the country on a panel discussing the topic of “Jesuit Identity as Rhetoric, Jesuit Rhetoric as Identity: A Roundtable Discussion.” Rebekah Bloyd presented workshops at two universities in the Czech Republic where she’d been a Fulbright Scholar. For Masaryk University, she led an intensive, one week course in Creative Nonfiction culminating in a public reading by participants. At Palacký University, she facilitated a workshop titled “Ah, ah cries the crow”: Image and Perspective in a poem by Joy Harjo. Sponsored in part by a European Union grant, the workshop focused on innovative teaching methods for cultural

studies courses. Later this summer in Portland, Bloyd will be a faculty member for The Fir Acres Workshop in Writing and Thinking, teaching high school students from around the country strategies for a range of habits of mind, including narrative, poetic, analytic, reflective, and hybrid writing. Bloyd has poems forthcoming in Spolia and Sou’Wester. Michelle Burnham is currently editing volume 44 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, a scholarly journal. English major Ashley Barros worked as an assistant with her on this project. Michelle gave a paper on “Breadfruit, Plantain, and Sugarcane: Transplantation in Revolutionary Jamaica” at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence RI. Her analysis of disability and windigo in HBO’s Game of Thrones series recently appeared. Stephen Carroll gave a workshop on “Learning How to Learn: Critical Adaptation Skills for the 21st Century” at the WASC conference in LA. He gave a presentation at the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching (Newport Beach) on service learning. Four of his students also attended the conference and gave a workshop on Learning Facilitators. Stephen gave a presentation on the new SALG prototype to the National Science Foundation-sponsored Biology REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Board in Washington DC. His essay, “The Importance of Interface: A Tale of Two Sites,” appeared in Science Education and Civic Engagement: The Next Level. He gave a talk at the 25th Annual Lilly Conference

on College and University Teaching in Pomona on Building Brain-Based Learning Skills to Help Students Succeed. Juliana Chang presented “John Yau’s Poetic Parody: Mimicking Mimicry”at the Modern Language Association conference, and “Cross-racial Humor and Mimicry in Rush Hour” at the Association for Asian American Studies conference. Diane Dreher and Kitty Murphy of the Religious Studies Department hosted the statewide conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) on campus. Diane was just re-elected president of Santa Clara’s AAUP Chapter. She published a chapter, “Abnormal Psychology in the Renaissance,” in In T. G. Plante (Ed.). Abnormal psychology across the ages, Praeger. Diane gave a retreat on vocation based on her book, Your Personal Renaissance, at Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park. Her English 189 class, “Your Personal Renaissance,” was featured in a recent report in Liberal Education: “Renewing Liberal Education as Vocational Discernment.” Andy Garavel’s essay, “The Shoulder of Shasta: Bram Stoker’s California Romance,” has been published in Bram Stoker: Centenary Essays, Four Courts Press. His essay, “Beggars on Horseback: The Irish Cousins in Wales” has been published in Studies in Travel Writing as part of a special issue on Wales. Kirk Glaser’s poems, “Indian Cove” and “What’s Left on the Tongue,” will appear in Nimrod

International Journal of Prose and Poetry. His panel proposal was accepted for AWP 2014 in Seattle: Dwelling on the Edge: New California Writing. His story, “Anonymity of Faces,” has been chosen a finalist for the Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction. John Hawley’s essay, “Trans Autobiographies as Performative Utterances,” appears in Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility, Routledge. He published two encyclopedia entries: “Colonialism and Mandates,” and “Christianity” in Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, Sage. He was the invited respondent for an MLA panel on “The Sacred and the Sexual in South Asian Literature,” and a panelist on professionalism for graduate students at the South Asian Literature Association conference in Chicago. His essay, “Chattering Classes/Twittering Revolutionaries: Social Media, and the Arab Spring,” has been published by the online journal, Le Simplegadi. He presented a paper on queer theology at the Instituto Universitario ISEDET in Buenos Aires. His essay, “Distancing the Recent Past: New Forms of Discomfort with AIDS in the U.S.,” has been published in HIV in World Cultures: Three Decades of Representations, Ashgate. Ron Hansen’s commentary on The Gospel of Mark has been published, and his novels are considered in two new critical commentaries: The Fine Delight: Post-conciliar Catholic Literature and Truthful Fictions: Conversations with Biographical Novelists.

Hanna Janiszewska defended her dissertation, “Romantic Lives of the Mind,” for Stanford University. Julie Jigour (‘08) had productions of a ten-minute play in Aspen and New York City. Her short screenplay Paper Umbrellas is currently a finalist for the 2014 Steeltown Film Factory competition, and her TV pilot Antarctica is a finalist in the Sloan Foundation screenplay competition. Jacquelyn Hendricks filed her dissertation, ‘Written in the Langage of Scottish Natioun’: The Intersection of Language and National Identity in Fourteenth-to Sixteenth-Century Middle Scots Poetry, officially graduating with her Ph.D. from Northwestern. Maria Judnick celebrated her graduation from St. Mary’s College’s MFA program, finished a third term as the Project Coordinator for an NEH Institute for School Teachers — “John Steinbeck: The Voice of a Region, a Voice for America” and served as the Project Coordinator for a two week NEH Institute “The Immigrant Experience in California through Literature and Film.” Cynthia Mahamdi produced “Cease and Desist,” a documentary about the struggle of four family farms in Northern California following new government regulations and law enforcement crackdowns on old community-based agricultural practices. Cruz Medina’s “The Family Profession” appeared in College Composition and

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Communication, and “Nuestros Refranes: Culturally Relevant Writing in Tucson High Schools” was published in Reflections: Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing and Service Learning. Christine Montgomery presented a paper titled “Anachronistic Prophecies and the Slaves’ Archive” at the MLA. Tim Myers was interviewed for “The Many Paths to Publication,” and he had a flash fiction reading at the WORKS Gallery, San Jose, and spoke at the Santa Clara Public Library on “How to Make Them Readers: A Discussion for Parents of Kids of All Ages”. His article, “Women in Traditional Storytelling,” was published in Facts & Fiction Magazine. Christian Wiman, nationally recognized poet and former editor of Poetry Magazine, visited SCU recently and spoke about modern faith and its challenges. Tim Myers responded to the visit in an article for Explore magazine. Aparajita Nanda published the edited volume The Strangled Cry: The Communication and Experience of Trauma. Her article entitled “Power, Politics and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood” has been published in Callaloo. Julianne Parayo (’13) has won a Fulbright U.S. Student Award to teach English in Poland for 20142015. Loring Pfeiffer published “’Some for this Faction cry, others for that’: Royalist Politics, Courtesanship, and Bawdry in Aphra Behn’s The Rover, Part II” in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 16601700, and “‘A Most Obedient

Wife’: Passive Resistance and Tory Politics in Eliza Haywood’s A Wife to Be Lett” in Interpreting Sexual Violence, 1660-1800, Pickering & Chatto. Don Riccomini published three solicited critical reviews of books in Technical Communications. Niki Tolani-Brown (‘99) is moving to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. There she will be working as Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor for the Education Global Initiative with Save the Children. Robin Tremblay-McGaw taught a workshop for teachers entitled “Writing & Thinking” at the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Her experimental article in the form of a mock interview, “Questions, Read-Thrus, and Alterity in the Work of Joan Retallack” appeared in Aufgabe. Juan Velasco was invited to a dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Leavey Center on the potential for greater compassion and other-directedness in business and organizational life. Julia Voss defended her dissertation, went on a European honeymoon, finished putting together (with coauthors) an edited collection, The Best of the Independent Composition Journals 2011 (in production), and moved from Ohio to the Bay Area. Jeff Zorn is taking classes in writing and performing stage monologue. His most recent publications include: “A Non-Zionist Drash of Lech Lecha,” Explore; “”Keep the Door Open,” Santa Clara Magazine; and “English Compositionism as Fraud and Failure,” Academic Questions.

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and Creative Writing cosponsored a conversation with Ron Hansen on Tuesday, May 6 in the St. Clare Room of Orradre library. Santa Clara Magazine editor Steven Saum interviewed Ron on his

latest book, She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories, featured as the library’s Spring 2014 Book of the Quarter. English major and 2014-15 Canterbury Fellow, Sabrina Barreto, won third place in the Ina Coolbrith

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Poetry Competition for the second straight year, a multi-campus competition including all U.C. campuses, Stanford, St. Mary’s, and others. Sabrina also won the Academy of American Poets Tamara Verga Poetry Award. Kathryn McAuliffe is the winner of the Shipsey Poetry Prize and

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Nicholas Anthony is the winner of the McCann Short Story Prize. Amy Thomas completed a collection of short stories for her 2013-14 Canterbury Fellowship and all three Canterbury Fellows for 2014-15, Sabrina Barreto, Sabine Hoskinson, and Jacob Wilbers will be doing creative writing projects in poetry, creative non-fiction, and fiction.

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