Category: Creative Writing

This year’s Sherry Clarkson Prize for the best graduate student paper delivered at the 2021 RAW Conference goes to Shivika Mathur for her paper “Practical in the Extreme”: Hyperbole and (Dis)enchantment in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Shivika is a literature Ph.D. student and TA, teaching Rhetoric 1302. Her presentation, ‘“Practical in the Extreme:” […]

UT Dallas alumna, Dr. LaToya Watkins BA’06, MA’11, PhD’15, has received a two-book deal from New York publisher Viking-Penguin. The first book, a novel called Perish, will be published by Tiny Reparations, an imprint at Plume/Dutton, subsidiary of Viking-Penguin, and will be on the market in the Fall of 2022; Holler, Child will follow in […]

Kevin Zander Johnson, currently pursuing his PhD in the School of Arts and Humanities, is the recipient of the 2021 Glasstire North Texas Art Writing Prize. In his winning essay, titled Do the Right Thing: Mookie, Sal, and the Stories We Tell, Johnson writes about Spike Lee’s landmark film, and how such powerful storytelling helps […]

Kevin Zander Johnson is the recipient of the 2021 Glasstire North Texas Art Writing Prize. In his winning essay, titled Do the Right Thing: Mookie, Sal, and the Stories We Tell, Johnson writes about Spike Lee’s landmark film, and how such powerful storytelling helps us see each other more clearly. The $2,500 prize includes the winning essay […]

In conversations recorded for the Athenaeum Review podcast, Frederick Turner and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth offer reflections on diverse aspects of their work and careers, as well as read selections from their poetry. Listen online: Poetry, Nature and Science: A Conversation with Frederick Turner Modernity and History in Hungarian Poetry: A Conversation with Zsuzsanna Ozsváth

Dr. Nomi Stone, assistant professor of literature, also was featured in a top national news site. Her poem, “For My Wife, Who Is Writing a Collection of Stories Called ‘Homescar’,” appeared in The Nation.

The School of Arts and Humanities would like to honor and thank three long-time faculty members who are retiring. Milton Cohen retired May 31 and Fred Turner and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth will retire Aug. 31. Fred Turner Dr. Fred Turner is a poet, a cultural critic, a playwright, a philosopher of science, an interdisciplinary scholar, an […]

Ji-Won Kim “Ji-Won Kim (Spring 2020) has been adapting Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese into a play. I’ve been helping her craft the script and consider the distinctions between the two mediums. Originally, we were supposed to do a public reading of her script but that will turn into a virtual reading.” […]

The School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas has three new tenured and tenure-track faculty members who bring a wide range of expertise — in gender, race and law enforcement studies, poetry and creative writing, and art history. “I am excited about our new hires, who already are very accomplished. […]

The following is an excerpt from the story “From Working 9-to-5 to Hollywood Scribes” in the latest edition of UT Dallas Magazine. Growing up in Richardson, VJ Boyd BA’02 dreamed of being a screenwriter, crafting his first screenplay at age 16. “I did make many short films as a teenager and in college, but none of them […]