Thanks to all who attended last week’s meeting. As a gentle reminder, please encourage students who wrote outstanding essays in your classes to submit them to Iris (iquiroga@sdsu.edu) by the end of the week. The winning essays will be recognized at the department’s pre-commencement celebration at Scripps Cottage on Friday 12 May at 10 am. I hope you will be able to attend this event where we celebrate the achievements of our students (and enjoy a variety of cookies and brownies from Caked).
There’s a new policy from the Research Foundation that might be of interest to those who work with individual service providers. Before we can request any payments for services, an Independent Contractor Pre-Selection Checklist needs to be completed and returned to Bart Chafe in the Dean’s Office. If a service is performed prior to the checklist being reviewed by the Research Foundation, payment for the service with Foundation funds may not be approved.
Dates
4/12 at 12 noon in AL 266: Graduate Committee meeting
4/12 at 7 pm, via Zoom: The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading featuring Poet and Editor, Naoko Fujimoto! Her poetry collections are "We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan", winner of C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award by C&R Press (2022), "Where I Was Born", winner of the editor's choice by Willow Books (2019), "Glyph: Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory" by Tupelo Press (2021), and four chapbooks. She is a RHINO associate & translation editor and Tupelo Quarterly translation editor. Register in advance for this event:
https://SDSU.zoom.us/meeting/
4/14: Due date for Outstanding Essay Award submissions.
4/15, 9 - 2: Clare Colquitt and I will be meeting prospective students at Explore SDSU. Anyone interested in helping staff our booth is welcome.
4/17: Due date for IRA applications.
4/18: Due date for Humanities in Action finding requests. A fillable pdf is available on the department’s sharepoint page, under ‘Funding Request Forms’ > ‘Spring 2023 forms’.
4/26 at 7 pm in LL 430: Rick Barot will read from his most recent publications, including The Galleons, which has been described as “…significant, the work of a poet at the height of his powers.”
5/5 at 7 pm: MFA reading at Scripps Cottage.
5/12 at 10 am: Departmental pre-commencement celebration at Scripps Cottage.
Congratulations:
Lashon Daley was the keynote speaker at last weekend's 16th Annual Armistead Colloquium at UC Davis. She presented a chapter draft from her book project, Coming of (R)age: Charting Black Girl Lit Studies.
The second edition of Corinne Goria’s book, Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy was released by Haymarket Books last week. Kirkus Reviews calls it “a compelling message about the plight of labor workers worldwide.” Click here for some further info about the book.
Imelda Hernandez-Villa, who is graduating this spring with her English major and children's literature certificate, is featured in a recent PSFA publication about her and her daughter’s time at SDSU:
https://psfa.sdsu.edu/news/
As always, please let me know details of good news or upcoming events.
All best,
Quentin
No comments:
Post a Comment