Special Projects

 

SMU Symposium on Poetic Form

Southern Methodist University will host the SMU Symposium on Poetic Form on March 18 and 19, 2024. Jericho Brown will deliver the keynote reading; Jonathan Culler will deliver the keynote lecture. Plenary panels will feature Stephanie Burt, Virginia Jackson, Maureen McLane, Jahan Ramazani, Anthony Reed, and Evie Shockley. Other panels will consider topics such as Renaissance, eighteenth-century, and nineteenth-century poetics, historical poetics, the sonnet, “uncreative writing,” and prosody. More information can be found on the symposium website: https://blog.smu.edu/smu-symposium-on-poetic-form/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2024 MELUS Conference: Roots/Routes of Resistance and Resilience

Date: April 11 - 14, 2024

Southern Methodist University’s Department of English is hosting this year’s MELUS conference on April 11-14. Keynote speakers will include Chang-rae Lee, Claudia Rankine, and David Roediger. Panels will be on topics related to multiethnic literatures of the United States, and will focus particularly on means of resisting and surviving oppression and adversity. More information can be found at the conference website: https://blog.smu.edu/2024melus/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Southwest Review Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Southwest Review Festival

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Southwest Review Festival