Dear all,
We are fast approaching the middle of the Spring 2025 semester! Please be sure to let me know if you have any achievements or accomplishments that you would like to share.
Reminders
Submitting syllabi and office hours: If you haven’t already, please send your syllabi and office hours to Vanessa Mendoza.
English Department Canvas Majors and Minors Page: Please encourage your students to join the English Department’s Canvas English Majors and Minors Page, in which they can self-enroll by following this link. Please also consider joining yourself to receive the updates and information that our students receive.
Announcements
Our beloved colleague George Uba will be joining us on campus on Monday, March 10 from 1-2:15 to discuss his extraordinary memoir, Water Thicker than Blood: A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood, with Danielle Spratt’s Blank Spaces in the Archives seminar. In particular, they will be discussing George’s deeply interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to both personal and public archives, and how he brings historiographic, literary, and creative approaches to these histories.
If you think you’d like to attend, either in person or virtually, please email Danielle Spratt by Monday, March 3.
Achievements
Professor Stephanie Lim presented the paper,”(Re)Imagining the Past, Looking Towards the Future: Exploring the Music of Netflix’s Bridgerton” at the conference, “Love Conquers All”: Exploring the Pop Culture Phenomenon of Bridgerton.
Professor Stephanie Lim will also be at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s conference, continuing their work on the Executive Team as Communications Coordinator.
Professor Emeritus of English George Uba was named a finalist for the 2024 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Three of his poems comprising part of his contest entry, “Aokigahara, the Suicide Forest in Winter,” “The Phone of the Wind Encounters a Butterfly,” and “Basement Threnody,” have been published in Nimrod International Journal, Vol. 68, No 1 (Winter 2025), 94-98. Congratulations, Dr. Uba!