The British Library in London currently has an exhibit featuring two early steampunk novels: Homunculus (winner of the Philip K. Dick award for best paperback science fiction novel in 1985) and Lord Kelvin’s Machine, published in 1992 by Professor of English James Blaylock. Also on display is a copy of Dr. Blaylock’s steampunk short story, “The
Kent Lehnhof, associate professor of English, has published a personal essay about commencement in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Check out the essay here: http://chronicle.com/article/Why-a-Comfortable-Commencement/127518/
On March 26, 2011, Andrew Mauzey (’11) presented his paper titled, “The Economics of Black Masculinity in For Colored Girls and Topdog/Underdog,” at the Claremont Graduate University Student Research Conference (pictured below). The conference theme was The Balancing Act: Theory and Practice and Mauzey was on a panel with Chapman alumns Jenny Lau (’09) and Danielle Medina (’11). Danielle Walters (’11), Andrew Mauzey (’11) and Jenny Lau (’09).
Journalism minor and history major Laura Hannam (‘11) has been accepted into the MA degree program at Bournemouth University in multimedia journalism, recognized as the only Centre for Excellence in Media Practice in the UK. Congratulations, Laura! Chapman Journalism Facebook
The Istituto Italiano Di Cultura in Los Angeles presents Giuseppe Conte, in a conversation with Chapman Professor Robert Buranello, on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. Giuseppe Conte contributes to several Italian newspapers and magazines and lectures at universities around the world. One of the best regarded Italian poets since the Seventies, Conte’s collections of poetry include
The Orange County Italian Cultural Association (http://www.ocica.org/) invites you to the VICOLO DEI POETI, an afternoon of Italian Poetry on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 4 p.m. in the Francoli Gourmet Restaurant in the city of Orange. Eight students from Chapman Associate Professor Dr. Robert Buranello’s ITAL343 course have submitted their poetry and will find
As part of Poetry and University Pride Week for 2011, at the The Rub-A-Dub-Dub of Agitation Poetry Slam all students are welcome to come up to the mic to perform and share their poetry. Plus feminist slam poet Susy Sobel will be performing. This event is hosted by Women’s Studies, Chapman Feminist and QSA. Refreshments will be
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. For fourteen years the center has invited international writers to Chapman as: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston among others. This year’s 2011 literary series is devoted to
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. For fourteen years the center has invited international writers to Chapman as: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston among others. This year’s 2011 literary series is devoted to
Scott Martelle, adjunct faculty for the English Department, was featured in the Sunday, March 27, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Times Opinion Section. His article titled, “The collapse of Detroit” De-industrialization, racism, stagnation — is the Motor City our future?” is about vacant homes, businesses and factories in Detroit. According to the 2010 U.S. Census Data there has