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University of Denver English Graduate Studies

Record of Graduate Students’ Professional Engagement during 2014-15 Academic Year

Contributors

1. Alber, Catherine. Third year PhD Literary Studies Program 2015

2. Barya, Mildred. Second year PhD Fiction Program 2015

3. Benke, Lauren. Second year PhD Literary Studies Program 2015

4. Buck, Angela. Third Year PhD Fiction Program 2015

5. Carmody, Teresa. Second year PhD Fiction Program 2015

6. Case, Mairead. First year PhD Fiction Program 2015

7. Drager, Lindsey. Third Year PhD Fiction Program 2015

8. Dunleavy, Rachel. (Completed 2014)

9. Ebeid, Carolina. First Year PhD in Poetry Program 2015

10. Fagin, Adam. Second Year PhD in Poetry Program 2015

11. Foerster, Jennifer. First Year PhD in Poetry Program 2015

12. Homan, Brandi. Second year PhD Fiction Program 2015

13. Lennon, Joe. Fourth Year PhD Fiction 2015

14. Machado, Aditi. Second Year PhD in Poetry Program 2015

15. Missaghi, Poupeh. Fourth Year PhD Fiction 2015

16. Morse, Jesse. Fourth Year PhD in Poetry Program 2015

17. Moser, Jeffery. Ph.D./A.B.D., Literary Studies (Dissertation defend &

Graduation expected Spring 2015)

18. Nesbit, TaraShea (Completed 2015)

19. Olivier, Sarah. Ph.D. candidate, literary studies

20. Pride, Jacob. Second Year PhD Literary Studies 2015

21. Rosales, Christopher. First Year PhD Fiction Program 2015

22. Schwilling, Taryn. First year PhD poetry Program 2015

23. Walsh, Joseph Michael. Second year PhD poetry Program 2015

24. Weizenbeck, Nichol 5th year PhD Literary Studies Program 2015

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Professional Editorial Positions, Teaching & Community Development,

Professional Tutoring in Language and Writing, Mentoring, Other Literary Positions

Barya, Mildred. Editor, Kampala Poetry Anthology, 2015

Judge, Babishai Niwe Poetry Anthology, 2015

Carmody, Teresa. Tutoring/mentoring The Gathering Place, community writing

Group Executive Director / Publisher, Les Figues Press Launching Kathy Acker Fellowship at Les Figues Press. Will be working with Fellow to curate to programs at the MAK Schindler House in West Hollywood, CA.

Case, Mairead. Freelance proofreader @ Les Figues

Editorial assistant (incoming) @ Denver Quarterly Online editor @ MAKE magazine Editor @ co-prosperity sphere Tutoring at St. Francis Center, through the Writing Center

Drager, Lindsey. Juror, Vermont Studio Center Writing Fellowship Committee

Judge, NCTE Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines

Assistant Fiction Editor, Green Mountains Review

Editor, Starcherone Books

Reviews, Interviews, Translations Editor, Denver Quarterly

Writing Consultant, St. Francis Center: a refuge for Denver homeless

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Dunleavy, Rachel. Director of the Writing Center and Instructor of English at the University of Great Falls in Montana, starting August 2014

Ebeid, Carolina. Preliminary judge for Colorado Prize in Poetry 2015

Poetry editor at Better: Culture & Lit

Editorial assistant at Denver Quarterly

Fagin, Adam. Writing Consultant at The Community Writing Center at the Saint

Francis Center in Denver.

Foerster, Jennifer. Writing Consultant in the University of Denver Writing

Center September 2014 - present Homan, Brandi. Taught composition at Johnson & Wales University (2014) Lennon, Joe. Teaching poetry to 1st-3rd graders at Community Montessori with

the Writers in the Schools program through Colorado Humanities.

Machado, Aditi. Poetry Editor at Asymptote Journal

Editorial Assistant at the Denver Quarterly

Missaghi, Poupeh. Writing Program. Adjunct Professor, Rhetoric and Academic Writing. One Class. Focus: Freedom of Speech and Censorship. Spring 2015. Writing Program. Adjunct Professor, Rhetoric and Academic Writing. Two Classes. Focus: The Rhetoric of Other(s). Winter 2015. Writing Center Consultant. Fall 2014. English Department. Intro to Creative Writing. Course: Literature of Iran. Spring 2014. English Department. Intro to Creative Writing. Course: Cities in Literature.

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Winter 2014. Writing Center Consultant. Fall 2013. Creative Writing Seminar, “Introducing Creative Writing Major in the US,” “Writings of the Other: Ecriture Feminine and Native American Writing,” & “Documentary Poetics, Form and Content.” In Persian. Tehran: Book City Institute. Dec. 2013. Editor, Writer, and Founding Member. Sorkhosiah Online Magazine. Editor. Mina’s Revolution, a Novel Manuscript by Mehrnoosh Mazarei Contributing Editor. Kore Press Publishing House, Tucson, AZ. Spring and Summer 2014. Morse, Jesse. Writing Center Associate at Johnson and Wales University

Managing Editor of the journal, Law & Policy Program Events Associate at Naropa University for Summer Writing Program (2014)

Nesbit, TaraShea. Assistant Professor in fiction and nonfiction at Miami

University, beginning Fall 2015.

Editor, Better: Culture & Lit, online multi-modal literature and arts journal Nonfiction 2012—Present

Pride, Jacob. Writing Consultant, University of Denver Writing Center, 2013-

2015 Rosales, Christopher Regular contributor at LitReactor.com

Fiction Editor at SpringGun Press Walsh, Joseph Michael. Editor, APARTMENT Poetry

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Editorial Assistant, Denver Quarterly

Weizenbeck, Nichol. Program's Director for the Graduate Women's Council

Newsletter Editor for the Aphra Behn Society

PUBLICATIONS: Journal Articles/Critical Essays, Cultural & Literary Essays, Other Critical Pieces, Non-dramatic Works, Creative Works,

Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Book Reviews, and Other Publications

Alber, Catherine. "Monster Bodies, Monster Space: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood

Meridian and the Demythologization of the American West” in the Southwestern American Literature journal.

Barya, Mildred “Three poems: October, Going Home, and The Sink” in Moving

Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, ed. Jane Plastow, Vol 14, (2014) School of English, University of Leeds, p90-91. “Stormy Heart” in A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, ed. Beverley N Nsengiyunva, Gilgal Media Arts, Kampala, (2014) p13-14 “Bless the Broken Path,” Northeast Review, 2014. http://northeastreview.com/2014/01/25/bless-the-broken-path/

Buck, Angela. “Angela Buck on Leonard Schwartz with Paul Vangelisti,” The Conversant, May 2014 http://theconversant.org

“Angela Buck on Leonard Schwartz with Ceclia Vicuña,” The Conversant, April 2014

“Angela Buck on Leonard Schwartz with Kamau Brathwaite,” The Conversant, March 2014

“Angela Buck on Leonard Schwartz with Rodrigo Toscano,” The Conversant, February 2014

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“Angela Buck on Leonard Schwartz with Fanny Howe,” The Conversant, January 2014

Carmody, Teresa. "Basement," excerpt from Maison Femme, in Entropy.

http://entropymag.org/new-fiction-basement-by-teresa-carmody/

"from Maison Femme," Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters. forthcoming

Maison Femme, novella, Bon Aire Projects: Buffalo, 2015. forthcoming http://www.bonaireprojects.com/

"For What Reason Is This Writing: Publisher's Preface." TrenchArt Monographs: hurry up please its time. Vanessa Place and Teresa Carmody, eds. Les Figues Press: Los Angeles, 2015. forthcoming

Case, Mairead. At Bookslut: the irrational season:

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2014_08_020859.php

how to burn potatoes at high altitude: http://www.bookslut.com/features/2014_10_020918.php

citizen: listening to ferguson: http://www.bookslut.com/features/2014_12_021027.php

always forever: reading widow basquiat: http://www.bookslut.com/features/2015_01_021067.php

reading yellow: http://www.bookslut.com/features/2015_02_021127.php

birdland: http://www.bookslut.com/features/2015_03_021156.php

at the new inquiry: dicks mixtape: http://thenewinquiry.com/features/dicks-mixtape/ at gesture: twenty first sentences from a failed obituary: http://gestureliteraryjournal.com/?p=961 in MAKE/SHIFT: review of sine queryas's MxT (offline) at midnight breakfast: see you in the morning: http://midnightbreakfast.com/see-you-in-the-morning/

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at everyday genius:[untitled]: http://www.everyday-genius.com/2014/09/mairead-case.html

Drager, Lindsey. The Sorrow Proper (novel), Dzanc Books, forthcoming April

2015

CHAPTER: "Marvelous Never Lands: Time in/and the Adolescent Transgender Narrative" forthcoming in I Am Not What I Once Was: Unbecoming Queer Narratives, edited by Dr. Paul Walker and Dr. Josh Adair

“Perennial Departure” LIT (forthcoming)

“In Defense of Anachronism: W.G. Sebald Interviews Me" Passages North (forthcoming)

“The Archive of Alternative Endings” Hayden’s Ferry Review (forthcoming)

“The Touch Wars” Modern Language Studies (forthcoming)

“Catalog on What a Daughter is Not” Modern Language Studies (forthcoming)

“Foul Mouth” Quarter After Eight (forthcoming)

“Reasons for Elevators” The Chattahoochee Review (Winter 2014)

“The Artificial Condition” The Chattahoochee Review (Winter 2014)

“Her Exhibit is Curated” Black Warrior Review (Fall 2014)

Review of Julia Cohen’s I Was Not Born in Tarpaulin Sky (forthcoming)

Review of Katie Jean Shinkle’s Our Prayers After the Fire in Tarpaulin Sky (October 2014)

Review of Thomas Bernhard’s Wittgenstein’s Nephew in Prairie Schooner’s Briefly Noted (October 2014)

“The Absence of the Book and the Future of the Work: Blanchot, Barthelme, and Creative Reading Practice” in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (September 2014)

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Essay on Fra Keeler by Azreen Van Der Vliet Oloomi Diagram (September 2014)

Ebeid, Carolina. Poetry: “You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior” and “White”

Colorado Review

Poetry: “M. Marina” Sixth Finch

Full-length book accepted at Noemi Press: YOU ASK ME TO TALK ABOUT THE INTERIOR

Fagin, Adam. "Transparent Protests" Noo Journal, 2014

"Bold Taxonomies" Fact-Simile Editions, 2014

"2061" VOLT (#20) (Forthcoming) "After the Bride," "The Whole (Surrounded on All Sides)" Dusie (Forthcoming)

A chapbook, THE SKY IS A HOWLING WILDERNESS BUT IT CAN'T HOWL WITH HEAVEN, forthcoming from Called Back Books.

Foerster, Jennifer. “Richer Than Anyone in Heaven” Reprinted in Please

Excuse This Poem, 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, Viking, 2015.

“Refrain.” TriQuarterly. Winter 2015. Issue 147.

“The Sounding.” Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics. Number 7. March 2015.

"Old Woman and the Sea." Yellow Medicine Review. Spring 2015

Book review for Melissa Kwasny's "Pictograph" for Orion, July 2015

Reviews of my book, Leaving Tulsa: “Intrigue of the Heart.” Kweli Journal. December 2014

http://www.kwelijournal.org/interviews/2014/12/26/intrigue-of-the-heart-tafisha-edwards-interviews-jennifer-elise-foerster

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“Poems that Contain (and Critique) History: Three First Books.” Huffington Post. October 2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-rader/poems-that-contain-histor_b_5830112.html

“Atlas on the Underside of a Dream.” Terrain.org. September 2014 http://terrain.org/2014/reviews-reads/review-atlas-underside-dream/

Homan, Brandi. “Green Green Corn” in Bodega Magazine Issue 23 and Ping-

Pong (2014) Lennon, Joe. Poem "BLVD" published on the Denver Poetry Map website

(http://www.denverpoetrymap.net)

A portfolio of poems in the Denver Quarterly (V 48, No. 4)

Machado, Aditi. “Letters, Minor” poem in DIAGRAM 14.6 (December 2014)

Three poems “If Thought Is Life” “Blessed Is” and “The God Word” in The Offending Adam 178.1 (January 2015)

“Green Fingers” poem in February: An Anthology (Spring 2015, forthcoming) Reading: 4x4 Reading at CSU, Fort Collins on Nov 4, 2014

Missaghi, Poupeh. A Review of Goli Taraghi’s Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons,

in English. World Literature Today, Vol. 89: Issue 2: Mar-Apr 2015. Print. “Transmutations of/by Language,” an Essay. In English. World Literature Today. Vol. 89: Issue 2: Mar-Apr 2015. Online. A Review of Tehran Noir, ed. by Salar Abdoh. In English. World Literature Today. Vol. 89: Issue 2: Marc-Apr 2015. Print. a Look at Bolaño, a ,[”Memories of a Sponge“] ” خاططرااتی اازز یک ااسفنج“ Biography. In Persian. Aftab Magazine. Dec. 20th, 2014. Online. “On Tehran Noir, a New Anthology of Iranian Noir Fiction.” Rev. of Tehran

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Noir, Salar Abdoh, ed. In English and Persian. Published under the Pen Name Homa Naraghi. British Council Underline Magazine. Winter 2015. Online. “Colonel’s World.” Analysis of The Colonel, a Novel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi. In English. Published under the pen name Raha Namy. Conversation Quarterly: Issue 38: Winter 2015. Online. “A Translator’s Note: on Translating Guantanamo.” In Persian. Tehran: Sorkhosiah: Dec. 4th, 2014. Online. “Visiting Dowlatabadi’s Colonel.” Rev. of The Colonel, a Novel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi. In English and Persian. Published under the Pen Name Homa Naraghi. British Council’s Underline Magazine. Fall 2014. Online. “A Translator’s Note: Hedayat Translated / Hedayat the Translator.” In English. The Parsagon Review: July 28th, 2014. Online. “From Corpses, Artworks and Dreams of,” an Excerpt from a Novel. In English. Published under the Pen Name Raha Namy. The Feminist Wire: July 9th, 2014. Online. co-written with ,[”Tangier’s Sheltering Sky“] ” آآسمانن سرپناهه ططنجه “ Nafisseh Sadat. In Persian. Tehran: Sorkshosiah: February 26th, 2014. Online. Scars of the Atacama Desert, Representations of“] ” ززخم صحراایی آآتاکاما “ Pinochet’s Era in Chile’s Art and Literature”]. In Persian. Tehran: Sorkhosiah: January 13th, 2014. Online. “Whack.” In English. Published under the pen name Raha Namy. the dic.tion.ar.y pro.ject: Nov. 26th, 2013. Online.

Publications, Research: “Writing Suggestions for Writing in a Second, Third or Fourth Language, From Poupeh Missaghi, A Multi-Lingual Consultant.” University Writing Center, University of Denver. Fall 2014. Print.

Publications, Interview: “تالشش براایی خلق اابرررمانن ” [“Trying to Write the Uber-Novel”], about Roberto Bolaño’s Life and Works. Interviewed by Danial Haghighi. Tehran: 51 Novel Association: Dec. 26th, 2015. Online.

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Publications, Translations (Books and Other Long Works): Dystopia, A Play. An English Translation of ااناکج , a Play (in Persian). Playwright: Mohammad Rezaee Raad. Director: Mohammad Aghebati. November 2014. Upcoming on Stage, 2015, New York A Persian Translation of Time was Soft There, by Jeremy . شکسپيیر وو شرکا Mercer. Tehran: Markaz Publications. Upcoming, Spring 2015. Print. A Persian Translation of Regarding the Pain of . نگاهه به ددرردد وو ررنج ددیگراانن Others, by Susan Sontag. Tehran: Herfe-Honarmand Publications. Upcoming, Summer 2015. Print. Publications, Translations (Excerpts and Other Short Works): “ گواانتانامو ”A Persian Translation of an excerpt of and the introduction to the book: Guantanamo, by Frank Smith (in French), Vanessa Place, trans. (into English). Tehran: Sorkhosiah: Dec. 4th, 2014. Online. “ اایی براایی یک شهھھر شاعراانه ” A Persian Translation of an excerpt of the book Poetics of Trespass, by Erik Enderson; and an interview with the author. Tehran: Sorkhosiah: August 15th, 2014. Online. “Bombay Rain.” An English Translation of “بارراانن بمبئی ” a short story (in Persian) by Payam Yazdanjoo. First published in Denver Quarterly. Republished with Permission in The Parsagon Review: July 28th, 2014. Online. “Bombay Rain.” An English Translation of “بارراانن بمبئی ” a short story (in Persian) by Payam Yazdanjoo. Denver Quarterly: Spring Issue, 2014. Print. تواانم آآوواازز بخواانم هھھھایی ززیاددیی بلدمم ااما نمی آآهھھھنگ “ ” A Persian Translation of an excerpt of and personal notes for I Know Many Songs but I cannot Sing, by Brian Kiteley. Sorkhosiah: March 26th, 2014. Online. “Totally Harmless, Reading Coffee Cups on Freud’s Couch in Tehran.” An English Translation of a selection of newspaper columns (in Persian) by Pouria Alami. World Literature Today: Spring Issue, 2014. Print. هھھھا گل “ ” A Persian Translation of an excerpt of “Flowers” (in English) by Raul Zurita. Sorkhosiah: January 13th, 2014. Online. Analysis Translator with the Persian team for Whitman ” آآوواازز خویشتن “ Web. A fifty-two week project translating Whitman's “Song of Myself,” along with its analyses into nine languages. Run by Iowa University

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International Writing Program and Walt Whitman Archive. Oct. 2012 - Oct 2013. Online. http://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/about http://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/fa/about Morse, Jesse. Book review of Wave Press' re-release of Lorine Niedecker's Lake

Superior in the upcoming issue of Denver Quarterly Spring 2015. Moser, Jeffery. Chapter 1: “‘Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss’ so

the ‘readiness is all’ – Alan Isler’s Postmodern Appraisal of Modern Ill Accounts and Illusory Aesthetics.” Shakespeare: A Reappraisal. Vol. 2. Eds. Sunita Sinha and Carole Rozzonelli. New Delhi: Atlantic Books, 2015. 1-26. Print.

Book judged Best Book of the Year from India on Shakespeare. 39th International Kolkata Book Fair, Jan. 2015. Selected by Shakespeare Society to be promoted through 2015.

Essay: “A Comely Dame with a Man’s Courage: Skelton, Chaucer, and the Poetics of Self, Gender, and Class Mobility.” Forthcoming in Atlantic Literary Review, Special Feminist Series, Winter 2015. Print. (The Atlantic Literary Review is an International Refereed Journal of English Studies from the House of Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, India) Essay: “A Court-worthy Head for Self-Discovery: Of the Search-Quest Phenomenon in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Forthcoming in Atlantic Literary Review, an International Refereed Journal of English Studies, Spring 2015. Print.

Poetry “Cool.” Forthcoming in Who’s Who in American Poetry, 2015. “Ode to Love and Loss.” On the Wings of Pegasus: Special Poems by Special Poets. Ed. Betty Cummins Starr- Joyal. Ashland, OR: Poetryfest Press, 2014. 54. Print.

Book Review: Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media by Andrea Wood and Brandy Schillace, 2014. Forthcoming in the Spring 2015 (69.1) issue of The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed journal of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association) Book Review: Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde by Peter Quartermain, 2013. Forthcoming in the Spring 2015 (69.1) issue of

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The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed journal of the Rocky Mountain MLA) Reviews of Plays: The Rising Sun and Boma by Kenneth Usongo. Yaoundé: Langaa Research and Publishing, Cameroon/U of Johannesburg, 2014. 126 pages. (Quotes from reviews printed on Back Cover of book)

Book Review: Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen H. Grant, 2014. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 68.2 (Fall 2014): 220-25. Print. (Peer-reviewed journal of the Rocky Mountain MLA) Book Review: Ingrid Jonker: Poet under Apartheid by Louise Viljoen, 2013. Forthcoming in the Fall, 2014 (68.2) issue of The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 68.2 (Fall 2014): 246-51. Print. (Peer-reviewed journal of the Rocky Mountain MLA)

Community Journalism, Letter: “No faith in the new Congress.” “DP Opinions.” blogs.denverpost.com/eletters 8 Jan. 2015. Web. “The Open Forum.” The Denver Post 8 Jan. 2015: 15A. Print. Literary Criticism: Blog response to “Every Dog Has Its Day,” by Ron McMillan. The Rogue Reader: Fiction from the Bleeding Edge. Web. 22 Mar. 2014. PressBooks.com. Web. 5 May 2014. Letter: “A good year for Republicans in Colorado? I doubt it.” “DP Opinions.” blogs.denverpost.com/eletters

12 Jan. 2014. Web. “The Open Forum.” The Denver Post 12 Jan. 2014: 2D. Print.

Reading Middle English: “Reading Chaucer Aloud” with Prof. Paul R.

Thomas from The Chaucer Studio. Metro State U, Denver, CO, 14 June 2014.

Nesbit, TaraShea. The novel, The Wives of Los Alamos released in paperback,

January 2015. Novel, The Wives of Los Alamos, Bloomsbury USA February 2014 http://tarasheanesbit.com/about-the-book/

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Olivier, Sarah. “The Year in Conferences.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 61.1 (2015).

Rosales, Christopher. First novel, Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper,

available for pre-order April 11, 2015 and will be released in the summer 2015 by Mixer Publishing.

Short story "Building the Case" is forthcoming from UNBUILD Walls.

Second novel, Gods on the Lam, is forthcoming summer 2016 from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. www.christopherrosales.com.

Schwilling, Taryn. Poetry Book: “The Anatomist” (YesYes Books, spring 2015)

Poem: "Travel Fragment" (The Volta, Issue #35) Walsh, Joseph Michael. Poem, “Yes, Please,” Country Music Journal, 2014.

Poem, “Glossolalia,” Word For/Word Journal, 2014.

Review “Melody is None: On Joe Wenderoth’s ‘If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep?’ Denver Quarterly, forthcoming 2015.

Symposiums, Workshops and/or Conference Papers, Conference Readings, Presentations, Conference Panels Proposed and

Organized, Papers Delivered, Critical or Creative Readings, Visiting Writer and Other Performances

Alber, Catherine. "Monster Bodies, Monster Space: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood

Meridian and the Demythologization of the American West” at the Western Literature Association conference in Victoria, BC, in Nov. 2014.

Barya, Mildred. Chair for Presentations on: “Successful Literary Initiatives in

Africa,” at the Uganda International Writers Conference organized by African Writers Trust, 2015 Guest Speaker & poetry facilitator at BN Poetry Foundation workshop, African Rural University, Uganda, 2014

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“Defining Possibilities, Realizing Opportunities: Cultural Exchange and Engagement in Africa-China Relationships,” Guest speaker & poetry workshop facilitator, at Shantou University, Digital Humanities Platform, Guangdong, China 2014

“Thinking its Presence: Race and Creative Writing,” panel presenter at University of Montana, Missoula, 2014.

Benke, Lauren. “The Dancing Body in Irish Drama since 1900," Louisville

Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 2015

“Physiological Rhythm and the Dancing Body in Ulysses,” XXIV

International James Joyce Symposium, Utrecht University, June 2014 “Woolf’s Peripheral Ireland in The Years,” 24th Annual International

Conference on Virginia Woolf: Writing the World, Loyola University Chicago, June 2014

“Dance as Cyclical History in the Choreographic Community of James

Joyce and T. S. Eliot,” Modernist Communities: Inaugural International Conference of the Société d’Etudes Modernistes, Paris, April 2014

Buck, Angela Reading: Bad Shadow Affair, Denver, CO, January 2014. Carmody, Teresa. "Notes on Gifts and Fiction." Literary Production and the Gift

Economy. AWP Conference. Minneapolis, MN. April 9, 2015.

"Pine Trees, Puritans, The Scarlet Letter: Fiction and Fear." Occult Geographies. Collaborative Panel Presentation (with Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, and Andrea Quaid) & Now Conference. California Institute of the Arts. Valencia, March 27, 2015.

“New Questions and Terms for Writing Centers." Collaborative Panel Presentation (with Lauren Benke, Rachel Duleavey, Juli Parrish, and Eliana Schonberg). IWCA Conference. Orlando, FL. October 31, 2014.

Reading: Bowery Poetry Club, Fantasy Reading Series, New York, NY. March 1, 2015.

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Case, Mairead. Panel at AWP: Women editors of independent publishing: https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/4062

Reading at the Leon Affair and the Dikeou collection in Denver The Hideout, Sector 2337, and the Co-prosperity sphere in Chicago

Drager, Lindsey. “50 Years of Denver Quarterly: A Conversation” panel

moderator at Association of Writers and Writing Programs Convention, Minneapolis, MN, April 8-11, 2015

“The Artist in the Institution,” Fiction Workshop with Prof. Jensen Beach, Johnson State College, October 3, 2014

“The Publishing Machine,” Pamplemousse literary journal staff address, Johnson State College, October 16, 2014

Introduction for reading by Assaf Gavron, University of Denver, October 30th, 2014

4x4 Literary Reading, University of Denver, January 28th, 2015

"Marvelous Never Lands" critical-creative presentation at the Graduate Performance and Research Summit, University of Denver, January 30th, 2015

Dunleavy, Rachel. Panel presentation titled "Data Big and Small: New Questions and Terms for Writing Centers" at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in October 2014, with colleagues from the DU writing center.

April 2015 participated in a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, circulating a paper entitled, "Chatter and Chant: The Reputation in John Bale's King Johan and the Litany of Saints."

Ebeid, Carolina. Reading: Dikeou Gallery Reading Series;

UCCS Art Gallery Reading Series; Syntax Reading Series; Every Eye Reading Series

Fagin, Adam Reading: At CU Boulder 4X4 in March 2015 Foerster, Jennifer. Helped to coordinate the Native Writers/ Denver Quarterly

Special Issue Event in November 2014 at DU with Dr. Billy Stratton

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Participated in the University of Denver Writers in the Schools Program - Winter/Spring 2015

Visiting Writer (gave reading, craft talk, workshop) Institute of American Indian Arts MFA Program – Santa Fe, NM – January 2015 (http://www.iaia.edu/academics/mfa-in-creative-writing/)

Participated in the Academy of American Poets/ 826 Valencia "Read This Poem" project for National Poetry Month: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/read-poem-826-valencia

Reading Tour to Venezuela with the University of Iowa International Writing Program and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State - May 2015

Homan, Brandi. Reading at Dikeou Gallery reading series (2015)

Leon Presents reading series (2014) Lennon, Joe. Attended Summer 2014 attended Simon Critchley's seminar at the

Cornell School of Criticism and Theory. Missaghi, Poupeh. Reading from Corpses, Artworks and Dreams of,” a Novel- in-Progress, at Counterpath Bookstore. As part of a reading by third-year students in DU’s Creative Writing PhD program, including Kanika Agrawal, Kameron Bashi, Patrick Kelling, Joe Lennon, Poupeh Missaghi, and Jesse Morse. Denver: May 16th, 2015. A Reading from Contemplations on a Private Affair, A Novel-in-Progress, at A Literary Salon. With Aisha Sloan, Hannah Ensor, Lisa O’Neill, Tc Tolbert, Meg Wade, and others. Tucson, AZ: Oct. 26th, 2013. Research Presentations: “Helping ESL Students beyond the Writing Center Session.” The Colorado-Wyoming Writing Tutor Conference. Denver: April 12th, 2014. “Foreignizing in Translation” with Lisa Katz, Aron Aji, Mira Rosenthal, Andrea Lingenfelter. AWP Conference. Seattle: Feb 27th, 2014. Morse, Jesse Visiting Writer, Lighthouse Writers Workshop Moser, Jeffery. “The Audacity of Home: Shakespeare’s Use of Time, Romance,

and Intimate Stage Action to Bind Audience with Plot in The Winter’s Tale”. 12th National Theater Symposium in Academe. Washington & Lee U, Lexington, VA, 26-28 Mar. 2015.

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“Angry Birds, Foul Deeds, Lunacy, Heroic Flyways and Other Cocky Impediments – Reflections of Hamlet for Assessing Plot and Dramatic Technique of The Birds.” 68th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Boise, ID, 9-11 Oct. 2014.

“Skelton and Chaucer and the Poetics of Self, Gender and Class Mobility.” 46th Annual Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association (RMMRA) Conference, Metro State U, Denver, CO, 12-14 June 2014.

“Fashioning Authorship, Editing Futures – Shakespeare’s Poems as Inspired Accommodations to Diverse Readers and Assertions of the Poet’s Legacy in Print.” Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) 42nd Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 10 Apr. 2014.

“Fashioning Authorship, Editing Futures – Shakespeare’s Poems and the Phenomenon of Print.” Graduate Research and Performance Summit: Breaking Down the Silos, U of Denver, 7 Feb. 2014.

Nesbit, TaraShea. Visiting Writer, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, April 27-

28, 2015 Visiting Writer, Front Range Community College, Longmont, CO, October 27, 2014 Presenter, “Unsettling American History,” [Dis]embodied Poetics Conference, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, October 10, 2014 Visiting Writer, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, October 2-3, 2014 Visiting Writer, High Point University, High Point, NC, October 1, 2014 Featured Author, Chautauqua Author Series, Boulder, CO, September 23, 2014

Olivier, Sarah. “The Founding of an Author Society: The Case of Lydia Maria

Child.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA 2015 “‘Stars and Stripes’: Lydia Maria Child and American Slavery Melodramas.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA 2015 “Unspoken Meanings: Hawthorne’s Use of the Melodramatic and the Moral Occult.” The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Biennial Meeting, North Adams,

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MA 2014 Chair & Organizer “Lydia Maria Child’s Visions for Future Social Justice: A Distinguished Scholar Roundtable" American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA 2015

Organizer “Lydia Maria Child and Her Contemporaries on Slavery and Race Relations” (Panel) American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA 2015

Pride, Jacob. Presented on Flannery O’Connor - “Graduate Research and

Performance Summit: Building Bridges Across Disciplines” University of Denver, January 2015

Presented on Flannery O’Connor - “Graduate Student Roundtable” University of Denver, May 2014

Walsh, Joseph Michael. "Poesis as Possession: Dickinson, Keats, and the

Undead Poem.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA. May 21-14, 2015.

‘“The God That Dies:’ Poetic Sacrifice in Eliot, Adorno, and Bataille.” International Symposium “Time and Place in T. S. Eliot and His Contemporaries.” Florence, Italy. January 18-21, 2015.

Weizenbeck, Nichol. Presentation, "She Asked for It: The Power of Self-

Advocacy for Women Academics." DU's 20th Annual Women's Conference: March 27, 2015.

Also as a lecture at Colorado School of Mines: "She Asked for It: The Power of Self-Advocacy for Women" 2015.

Service to the English Department, Service to the University and Other

Community Enrichment Service, Leadership and Participation Barya, Mildred English Graduate Students Association (EGSA) vice-president,

2014-15 Benke, Lauren Graduate Students of the Four Faculties (GSFF) Rep. under

English Graduate Students Association (EGSA) DU 2014-15

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Carmody, Teresa. Creating Writing Representative, EGSA Homan, Brandi. Secretary, EGSA

Writing Workshop Facilitator for Hoist Point Writing (writing in a correctional facility) (2014-2015)

Missaghi, Poupeh. Volunteer Translator. International Acquisitions, Vafa

Animal Shelter, an Iranian Animal Rescue Organization. Fall 2014 – Present

Moser, Jeffery. Invited by English Dept. to give campus tours to Candidates for the

Medievalist and Romanticist Faculty Positions, DU, Winter Term, 2014 Intern Lay Advisory Committee, DU Iliff School of Theology and Wellshire Presbyterian Church, 2014-15 (Committee meets monthly

Olivier, Sarah. Founder Lydia Maria Child Society, 2014/2015

Chair Graduate Women’s Council University of Denver, Denver, CO 2014- current

Pride, Jacob. Literary Studies & Faculty Speakers Representative, University of

Denver 2014-2015 Walsh, Joseph Michael. EGSA President 2014/2015

Professional Memberships and Societies

Barya, Mildred. African Writers Trust (AWT) Board member

Phi Beta Delta for International Scholars Case, Mairead. The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

Drager, Lindsey. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

Society for Disability Studies (SDS)

International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)

Missaghi, Poupeh. American Literary Translators Association

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Morse, Jesse. Member, Lighthouse Writers Workshop Moser, Jeffery. MLA

Phi Beta Kappa Renaissance Society of America Shakespeare Association of America

Pride, Jacob. Member of the Flannery O'Connor Society, 2015

Awards, Honors, Prizes, Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships Barya, Mildred. Six-week summer seminars fellowship at Cornell University

School of Criticism and Theory, Ithaca, NY, 2015 Buck, Angela. The Evan Frankel Dissertation Fellowship offered by the Denver

University English Department for the dissertation project, The Catastrophic Molt.

Drager, Lindsey. Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship (fully funded)

Pushcart Prize Nominee by Cream City Review for “Unsoiled,” 2014

Zone 3 Fiction Award Winner for “Disclosure,” 2014

Graduate Studies Doctoral Fellowship for Inclusive Engagement, DU, 2014–2015

Dunleavy, Rachel "Burkean Parlor Grant" from the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing.

Ebeid, Carolina. NEA Fellowship in Poetry Homan, Brandi. Manuscript: Strange Fish Something Fierce named Finalist for

Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Book Competition (2014) Manuscript (Strange Fish Something Fierce) named Semi-Finalist for Subito Books Lyric Essay / Creative Nonfiction Competition (2014)

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Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2015

Moser, Jeffery. Reader at the Folger Library, Washington, DC, 2014-15 Academic Year Selected by Trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) to Present Paper in “Re-imagining Topicality” Seminar and Recipient of Travel Scholarship, SAA 42nd Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 10-12 Apr. 2014 Graduate Studies Professional Development Grant for Conference/Dissertation Research (Two Awards) Provided by DU AHSS, Winter 2014

Nesbit, TaraShea. Finalist, 2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, PEN Literary

Awards sponsored by PEN American Center

Winner, Best Overall Book New Mexico and Best Historical Fiction, 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, sponsored by The New Mexico Book Co-op

Olivier, Sarah. Evan Frankel Dissertation Fellowship, University of Denver,

2014-2015

Robin Morgan Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, University of Denver 2015

Rosales, Christopher. The novel Silence the Bird, Silence the Keeper won the McNamara Creative Arts Grant and was a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Award.