Congratulations are in order for Professor of Art, Wendy Salmond and Associate Professor of English, Kevin O’Brien . They been awarded a 2013-2014 Co-Teaching Competition Award for their course The Russian Avant-Garde: Art, Film and Literature by the Chancellor and the Faculty Research and Development Council members. Professors Salmond and O’Brien are
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, February 25, 2013 with author Miguel Syjuco. Miguel Syjuco is a Filipino writer from Iloilo, and is the son of Augusto Syjuco Jr., the current representative of the second district of Iloilo. His first novel, Ilustrado, won the 2008 Palanca Awards Grand Prize
Former MFA/MA English student, Peggy Hesketh, has published her Chapman thesis novel, ” Telling the Bees ,” with Putnam Press. Hesketh will be reading and signing books at the Book Carnival in Orange on March 7, 2013 at 7 p.m., on the novel’s release date, and again on March 13, 2013 at Vroman’s in
The Chapman University chapter of the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta has been honored with one of the organization’s top awards. Chapman’s Alpha Zeta Iota chapter has been named an Outstanding Chapter by Sigma Tau Delta, just one of four student chapters from among a national membership of 700 to receive the honor
All Wilkinson Faculty and staff are invited to a sneak peak at Wilkinson’s current and upcoming initiatives on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 3 p.m. in the Marvin Meyer Athenaeum, Argyros Forum. In addition to the upcoming initiatives, Dean Patrick Fuery will talk about his first hundred days as Dean, give a CRASsH and
Acknowledged master of the short story, Professor Richard Bausch in the Department of English , has been selected to receive the 2013 John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence from Centenary College of Louisiana. “One of the things that has so impressed this department about his stories, besides the quality of the telling, is
Chapman’s theatre department will be presenting Shakespeare’s *Twelfth Night* in the Waltmar Theater on February 14-16 and 21-22 at 7:30 p.m. and again February 23 at 2 p.m. There will be a symposium on the play from 6 pm. – 7 p.m on February 21 developed primarily for students, that will include the perspectives
Steampunk legend (and Chapman English Professor) James P. Blaylock just recently had his new book published, The Aylesford Skull (Titan Books). This is the first new steampunk novel in over twenty years from the genre’s founding father, Professor Blaylock. The book takes place in the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives
A short story written by Chapman University faculty member and Argentine author Alicia Kozameh has been adapted for the stage and debuted this fall at the City Theater in Leon, France. The play “30” was based on Kozameh’s story, “Heights,” and dramatizes a string of episodes in the lives of 30 female political prisoners
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum is excited to announce the 2013 writer series line-up. Below is a list of the authors and the dates they will be here on campus. For more information about each of the writers, please go to the John Fowles Center website. All readings will begin at