{"id":1596,"date":"2018-12-14T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2018-12-13T09:45:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:45:33","slug":"announcing-faculty-scholarship-in-american-literary-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/announcing-faculty-scholarship-in-american-literary-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Faculty Scholarship in American Literary Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is with great pleasure that I write my first blog post as newly-appointed Director of American Literary Studies. I\u2019d like to announce new scholarship in our group, including several published and forthcoming articles, books, and co-edited journals and anthologies. Congratulations to my colleagues on their most recent scholarly achievements.<\/h6>\n
-MVA<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Jesse Alem\u00e1n, currently a research fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, co-edited the Fall 2018 issue of English Language Notes with Dr. Mar\u00eda Windell (CU-Boulder). The special issue on Latinx Lives in Hemispheric Context includes an introduction by Alem\u00e1n and Windell, nine position papers on the \u201cX,\u201d and seven essays on topics like immigration, language, race, class, and sexuality. Alem\u00e1n\u2019s chapter \u201cThe Age of US Latinidad\u201d is set to appear in the forthcoming collection, Timelines of American Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press). He is also the next Associate Dean in the Office of Graduate Studies. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Dr. Finnie Coleman is finishing the second edition of Sutton E. Griggs and the Struggle Against White Supremacy (University of Tennessee Press). He is also working on Rolling Thunder: The History of Race and Racial Violence in Pensacola, Florida, a study beginning with Black conquistadors and concluding with Black activism against White Supremacy during the Civil Rights Movement. Coleman is also UNM Faculty Senate President Elect.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jes\u00fas Costantino is completing his manuscript, Fighting Form: Boxing, Race, and Media in American Modernism. He has also started on his follow-up book project, Under the Sign of Disaster Triumphant: The Legacies of Colonialism in Late-Capitalist Ruins in the Americas; an article based on this second project is under review with ASAP\/Journal, \u201cCities of Air: Urban Archaeology, Forensic Media, and the Literature of Forced Disappearance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Bernadine Hern\u00e1ndez is completing her manuscript, (In) Visible Bodies of a New Nation: Civility and Sexual Economies on the Nineteenth Century Borderlands; co-editing New Transnational Latinx Perspectives on Ana Castillo with Dr. Karen Roybal (Colorado College); and has two forthcoming articles for Spring 2019, \u201cLiving on All Fours: Latinx Performance and the Trans Human Turn in En Cuatro Patas\u201d in the Las Americas Issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly, and an Oxford Bibliography entry on \u201cLatina Sexualities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Scarlett Higgins\u2019s Collage and Literature: The Persistence of Vision was published in 2018 in the Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature series, a book that considers the \u201cradical juxtapositions\u201d of collage image-making in the past and in our own time. Higgins also published three entries in 20th and 21st Centuries in American Literature: \u201cShaping New Poetics: The New American Poetry Anthology,\u201d \u201cLyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Language Poetry,\u201d and \u201cNathaniel Mackey and the New Musical Poetry.\u201d Her chapter on poet Harryette Mullen is forthcoming in Evaluation: U.S. Poetry since 1950, Ed. Robert Faggen and Robert von Hallberg. Higgins is now Director of the Women\u2019s Studies program. Congratulations again!<\/p>\n

Dr. Matthew Hofer\u2019s \u201cFrom Imagism to Vorticism: Understanding the Early Work of Ezra Pound\u201d appeared in the June 2018 issue of The Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 64 (171\u201385). He is also co-editor of The Language Letters with Dr. Michael Golston (Columbia U), forthcoming in Spring 2019 out of UNM Press. Hofer and Golston are also co-editing LEGEND, Expanded Edition, collaborative texts by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman; and a facsimile reprint of the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, vols. 1\u20133; these latter two are forthcoming in spring 2020.<\/p>\n

Dr. Melina Vizca\u00edno-Alem\u00e1n just completed the review essay \u201cSpanish Contributions\u201d for American Literary Scholarship 2017, edited by Dr. Gary Scharnhorst and forthcoming in Summer 2019 (Duke University Press). Her article, \u201cGender, Regionalism, and Chicana\/o Art: Denver Artist Carlota d.R. EspinoZa,\u201d has been accepted for publication in the Fall 2019 issue of Aztl\u00e1n: A Journal of Chicano Studies.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kathryn Wichelns\u2019s Henry James\u2019s Feminist Afterlives: Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras was just published by Palgrave in 2018. The book draws upon James\u2019s correspondence with Fields, and with Dickinson\u2019s and Duras\u2019s revisions of his fiction, to offer a new understanding of gender-transgressive elements of his project. Her article, \u201cColonial Order and Disorder in Annie Fields\u2019s 1896 Diary of a West Indian Tour,\u201d is currently under review with the journal Legacies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is with great pleasure that I write my first blog post as newly-appointed Director of American Literary Studies. I\u2019d like to announce new scholarship in our group, including several published and forthcoming articles, books, and co-edited journals and anthologies. Congratulations to my colleagues on their most recent scholarly achievements. -MVA Dr. Jesse Alem\u00e1n, currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}