Find out what's going on in the English Department

Christine Montgomery's Spring Preso

jdelacruz@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:28:00 PST

May 16, 2013 from 12pm to 1pm at Benson 21.
Free lunch will be served!

Congratulations to Cynthia Mahamdi and Tim Myers

jdelacruz@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:09:00 PST

On being promoted to Senior Lecturer.

The Future of Publishing

jdelacruz@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:33:00 PST

April 17th, 2013 at 3:30pm in the De Saisset Museum

Multimodal Writing Prize Contest 2013

jdelacruz@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:31:00 PST

ATTENTION ALL SCU STUDENTS! The English Department is having a Multimodal Writing Prize Contest!

ELIGIBILITY: Any SCU student.

PRIZE: $100 and publication on the English department website. The prize will be awarded at the Senior Dinner & Awards Ceremony at the end of May.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Entries that do not comply with the following procedures will be automatically disqualified.

1. Entries should be multimodal compositions (works that combine words and sounds and/or images) in digital form that were created for an SCU course or campus organization. Examples might include a video, podcast, website, blog, or interactive story.

2. Submit your work as a link or attachment to English@scu.edu. Use "Multimodal Writing Prize Contest" as the subject line and note your name, contact information, and SCU ID number within the body of the e-mail. Include the names of your collaborators, if any.

3. Deadline is Friday, April 12th, 2013

English students work recognized on the de Saisset exhibit

jdelacruz@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:56:00 PST

Congratulations to the following freshman whose reviews of current de Saisset Museum exhibits, written for CTW2: Art, Culture & Social Justice, have been selected for publication on the museum's website.

	"Dish Out Your (Metaphorical) Dough to See Some Clay" By Chris Iliff
	"Examining Shore: A Journey into a Rare Dimension" By Carlos Medina
	"Clay in the Bay: Breaking the Mold" By Allie Mitchell
	"Alien Objects" By Mirelle Raza

Congratulations to Professor Juliana Chang

jdelacruz@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:03:00 PST

Professor Chang's latest book has been published by the University of Minnesota Press: Read More »

New Members for 2012-13!

jdelacruz@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:37:00 PST

We are delighted to welcome the following new members of the Department in AY 2012-13!

Christine Montgomery is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Santa Clara University. Transnational in approach, her research and teaching explore discourses of race, gender, performativity, and freedom in nineteenth-and twentieth-century American and African-American literature along with contemporary Anglophone Caribbean literature. Christine earned the PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz and the BA in English at Santa Clara University. Courses taught include The Harlem Renaissance, Slavery and the Literary Imagination, and Contemporary Black Women Writers.

Her current book project Arna Bontemps and the Neo-Slave Narrative: Comparative Freedom, Temporality, and Slave Revolt, argues for a revisionist periodization of neo-slave literature as well as a reorientation away from a US-based literary history that has been dominated by the mode of realism and toward a more comparative view defined by the geography and history of the Caribbean.

Hanna Janiszewska is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Stanford University, where she has also taught writing and rhetoric courses for the past couple of years. She has an M.Phil in British Literature from Cambridge University and a B.A. in English from Yale. Her research focuses on the ways that thinking through and about literature both shapes and enables life. This year Hanna joins us to teach full-time, primarily teaching Critical Thinking and Writing courses.

Roxanne Rashedi has recently taught Composition and Writing courses at De Anza Community College. She has an M.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in English from the University of California Berkeley, where she was a graduate of the English Honors Program. At Georgetown University, Roxanne was appointed as the Graduate Writing Fellow at the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship and she was also a Lannan Literary Arts Fellow and a teaching assistant in the Department of American Studies. Recently, her work has appeared in the Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies Journal, UCLA's eScholarship Repository Project, and an excerpt of her M.A. thesis will be published in the next issue of MP: An Online Feminist Journal. Roxanne is currently working on a collection of short stories. This year she joins us to teach full-time Critical Thinking and Writing courses at Santa Clara University.

Loring Pfeiffer is a Quarterly Adjunct Lecturer who teaches Critical Thinking and Writing. She is a doctoral candidate in the English department at the University of Pittsburgh, from which she also holds an M.A. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Loring has taught Composition and Literature courses at the University of Pittsburgh and San Francisco State University. This year she joins us to teach Critical Thinking and Writing Class part-time.

John O. Espinoza is a Quarterly Adjunct Lecturer who will teach Critical Thinking and Writing 1 & 2. He has previously taught rhetoric & composition, American & world literature, and poetry workshops at Arizona State University in Tempe and at The National Hispanic University in San Jose, CA. John holds a B.A. in both creative writing and sociology from the University of California, Riverside and an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University, where he was a recipient of a 2002 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and a grant for emerging writers from The Elizabeth George Foundation. He has published three volumes of poetry including Gardeners of Eden (2000), Aluminum Times (2002), winner of the 2001 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest, and most recently, The Date Fruit Elegies (2008), a finalist for the 2009 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. His poetry has been published in literary journals such as The American Poetry Review, New Letters, Quarterly West, Rattle, and ZYZZYVA, as well as several anthologies such as Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (Foreword by Juan Velasco) and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California. Currently, John is the poetry editor of NewBorder: Criticism and Creation from the U.S./Mexico Border and the staff book reviewer for The Packinghouse Review. Originally from Southern California, he now resides in San Jose with his wife.

Senior Reception/Honors & Awards Ceremony Dinner

jdelacruz@gmail.com (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:35:24 PST

Date: Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Adobe Lodge

Googlemaps and Critical Research Skills

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:57:00 PST

Date: January 30th, 2012
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Place: Weigand Room at Santa Clara University

By Noel Radley and Gail Gradowski

Web 2.0 mapping tools currently provide user-friendly platforms with unique affordances, such as visualizing places in literary texts, aggregating history, and embedding rich media. This workshop will feature both the benefits and challenges of Googlemaps, with a focus on critical research skills. How does mapping supplement skills in traditional research? What are best practices for citation?

This workshop features recent Googlemaps projects in English studies, including a student map of California tuition protests, an assignment on mapping censorship histories, and a Googlemap of Joyce’s Dubliners.

Join notable Bay Area poets

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:53:00 PST

Date: Friday, January 27, 2012
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: 438 Coleman Ave, San Jose, CA 95110

Join notable Bay Area poets Gail Entrekin, Judy Halebsky, and Senior English major and current Canterbury Scholar Ainsley Kelly for a night of nature poetry hosted by Guadalupe River Park Conservancy.

Corridors: Exploring the Urban Woodland will focus on the precarious border between nature and development, and the interesting questions and realities that arise in such a place. Following the poets’ performances, there will be an open mic session for all attendees to participate. Please bring a friend and some poems to read! The event is free, and refreshments will be provided.

Pre-registration is required. Go online to www.grpg.org to sign-up. Contact Stephanie at 408-298-7657, or steph@grpg.org, for more information.

Speaker: Paula Huston

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:48:00 PST

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location: De Saisset Museum

Hosted by Ron Hansen

Faculty Publication

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:46:00 PST

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: University Library on the 3rd floor

Pizza and Pedagogy

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:18:00 PST

Thursday, November 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Round Table Pizza Parlor next to Safeway Pizza and Pedagogy (a time to get together to discuss challenges, questions, and successes related to CTW 1 this term)

Poetry Reading

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:17:00 PST

Wednesday, November 2 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Fall Poetry Reading: Kirk Glaser and Claudia Monpere McIsaac from our department and SCU Chancellor Bill Rewak will be reading their poetry for the campus and beyond’s enjoyment.

Location: Fess Parker Studio

Pizza and Pedagogy

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:16:00 PST

Thursday, October 27 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Round Table Pizza Parlor, next to Safeway. Pizza and Pedagogy with the Professors

Apara's Book Lunch

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:15:00 PST

Tuesday, October 25 @ 11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Nobili Dining Hall

Working Scholars Brown Bag

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:03:00 PST

Tuesday, October 11 from 12-1 pm
Michelle Burnham will be the first scholar presenting at the Working Scholars Brown Bag. Please bring your own lunch; drinks will be provided.

English Department Open House for Alumni Attending Reunion Weekend

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:02:00 PST

Friday, October 7, 2011 from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
The Department of English has invited alumni to visit its offices, chat with professors, and connect with fellow English alumni - so please plan to stay or come in on Friday 7 October to see which of your former students come so they won't be disappointed!
Refreshments will be provided.

CONGRATULATIONS to Canterbury Scholar Senior Ainsley Kelly

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:41:00 PST

CONGRATULATIONS to Canterbury Scholar Senior Ainsley Kelly for not just publication of her poem “Firestorm” in the Sigma Tau Delta creative writing journal but receipt of the first place prize in the category of poetry, for which she will receive a monetary award. She just learned this information at the end of August.

CONGRATULATIONS to Rebekah Bloyd

english@scu.edu (Jefferson Dela Cruz) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:40:00 PST

CONGRATULATIONS to Rebekah Bloyd, who just learned at the end of the day of our retreat that her poetry “Mother & Son” and “Her Brother,” submitted to Narrative, is one of the ten finalists in its Third Annual Poetry Contest. She too will receive a monetary award.

Visit Rebekah Bloyd bio