{"id":1639,"date":"2019-03-04T12:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2019-03-08T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T19:34:51","slug":"alumnus-dan-darling-headlines-english-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/alumnus-dan-darling-headlines-english-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Dan Darling Headlines English Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The English Department\u2019s 2018 Commencement was headlined by alumnus Dan Darling who addressed the graduates in his commencement speech. A New Mexico native, Dan Darling graduated from UNM\u2019s MFA Program in 2010 and serves as Assistant Professor of English at Normandale College in Minneapolis, MN, where he had just been named teacher of the year.\u00a0Dan\u00a0Darling is also the author of\u00a0<em>Archeopteryx<\/em>, which\u00a0<em>Muskeg Magazine\u00a0<\/em>calls\u00a0\u201can ambitious book . . . on the cities, towns, dead-ends, mountains, deserts, plants, and animals of New Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department celebrated the academic achievements of its 100+ graduating undergraduates and graduates by highlighting scholarship and honors thesis recipients as well as recognizing the portfolios and dissertations of our MA, MFA, and PhD graduates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, the Department of English bestowed its \u201cDistinguished Alumnus\/a and Friend of English Award\u201d on Dan Darling for his academic achievement, Dale and Ivan Melada for the very generous scholarship they endowed for our students, and long-term and now retiring lecturer and creative writer Jack Trujillo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The official program was followed by a reception enjoyed by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department\u2019s 2018 Commencement was headlined by alumnus Dan Darling who addressed the graduates in his commencement speech. A New Mexico native, Dan Darling graduated from UNM\u2019s MFA Program in 2010 and serves as Assistant Professor of English at Normandale College in Minneapolis, MN, where he had just been named teacher of the year.\u00a0Dan\u00a0Darling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}