Maile Chapman shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award
Posted 3.Nov.2010.
On October 29, The Guardian announced its shortlist of candidates for its coveted First Book Award. UNLV English Department alumna Maile Chapman has been selected for the shortlist in honor of her first novel, Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto (2010, Graywolf Press). The Guardian writes:
The Guardian's literary editor, Claire Armitstead, who chairs the judging panel, said: This brilliant shortlist reflects one of the year's big literary themes – how to tell stories in our new era. Each of these books provides its own very different answer, and it is thrilling that our judges and the Waterstone's reading groups have chosen five such rich and challenging works.
[...] Maile Chapman's Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto, challenges convention with its seemingly obscure subject: a group of elderly female patients in a Finnish hospital in the 1920s. The story tells how the arrival of a new patient, a former ballroom-dance instructor with a bad temper, upsets the complex dynamics on the ward.
The winner of the prize will be announced on December 1. Congratulations and best of luck to Maile!
Maile Chapman recently completed a Ph.D. with the UNLV English Department, and currently holds a New York Public Library Fellowship in New York City.
Rebel Yell covers English Department Majors Mixer
Posted 2.Nov.2009.
The Rebel Yell editorial staff writes, Wednesday’s English department mixer was a perfect example of how campus leaders are working to make connections between UNLV’s academic strengths and its social and cultural traditions ... Not only was the event a huge success in terms of numbers, with dozens of undergraduate English majors and graduate students appearing throughout the afternoon to mix, mingle and learn, it made an important step toward building the public community of mutual learning and benefit that UNLV and the department strive for.
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Vu Tran wins coveted Whiting Writers’ Award
Posted 29.Oct.2009.
On October 28, the Giles Whiting Foundation announced that UNLV English Department alumnus and instructor Vu Tran would receive the prestigious 2009 Whiting Writers’ Award, a national prize for writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career
. Vu Tran was awarded a Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship by the UNLV English Department in 2003, and graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 2006. He is currently an instructor for the UNLV English Department, teaching creative writing, world literature, and composition. He is the author of multiple short stories and a forthcoming literary crime novel, titled This Or Any Other Desert. [Read more...]
2007-2008
The Distinguished Scholars Series
In Spring 2008, this series included Dr. Peter Brooks.
As a Yale University Comparative Literature professor and Mellon Award winner, Brooks is praised as “one of the leading literary critics of his generation.” His extensive bibliography includes “Henry James Goes to Paris” (2007), “Realist Vision” (2005), “Psychoanalysis and Storytelling” (1994), “Body Work (1993), “Reading for the Plot” (1984), “The Melodramatic Imagination” (1976), “The Novel of Worldliness” (1969), “Law’s Stories” (1996), edited with Paul Gewirtz—and “Whose Freud? (2000), co-authored with Alex Woloch. He is also the author of a number of books on law and literature, including “Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature” (2000).
In Fall 2007, this series included bell hooks, winner of multiple writing awards and distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in her home state of Kentucky.
In 2006-2007, this series included Benedict Nightengale, theater critic for the London Times, and Stephen Greenblatt,
John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and author of ten books, including most recently Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. (April 2007)
The New West Writers Series
In 2007-2008, the New West Writers Series hosted:
Janet Holmes & Kate Greenstreet, and William Stobb
Deadlines and Links
Book orders for Fall 2008 are due. Submit your orders online.
Grades for Spring 2008 will be due May 20, through web grading.