{"id":4141,"date":"2026-03-31T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:27:07","slug":"ma-student-presents-at-swpaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/ma-student-presents-at-swpaca\/","title":{"rendered":"MA Student Presents at SWPACA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rudy Carrillo, who is an MA student in the American Literary Studies Program, presented an essay about\u00a0<em>Illness as Metaphor<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/145313656\/Sontag_Yesterday_and_Today_A_Concatenation?sm=b&amp;rhid=38510937252\">Sontag,Yesterday and Today: A Concatenation<\/a>&#8221; at the Southwest Popular\/American Culture Association conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read his essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/145313656\/Sontag_Yesterday_and_Today_A_Concatenation?sm=b&amp;rhid=38510937252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <br><br>Carrillo&#8217;s current work on Albuquerque will also be featured in this year&#8217;s issue of\u00a0<em>Conceptions Soutwest<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Carrillo, who is an MA student in the American Literary Studies Program, presented an essay about\u00a0Illness as Metaphor, &#8220;Sontag,Yesterday and Today: A Concatenation&#8221; at the Southwest Popular\/American Culture Association conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Read his essay here. Carrillo&#8217;s current work on Albuquerque will also be featured in this year&#8217;s issue of\u00a0Conceptions Soutwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}