Highlights
English M.F.A. Students to Present at USF's First Creative Writing Symposium
February 2012
English M.F.A. students, Kirsten Holt and Leslie Salas, have been invited to present at Blank Pages, USF's first creative writing symposium, on Friday, February 10. The symposium, a celebration of the written word, will take place over two days on February 9-10.
English M.A. Student Presents Paper at Georgia Conference
February 2012
Current English LCT graduate student, Lindsay Anderson, presented her paper, “Bodily Confinement in Margaret Atwood’s Novels”, at the 12th Annual New Voices Conference: Bodies of Influence at Georgia State University.
English Undergraduates Honored at National Jane Austen Conference
December 2011
In October 2011, two UCF English undergraduates, Faith Dickens and Hillary Casavant, were honored at the 2011 Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) conference in Fort Worth, Texas, for their award-winning essays in the undergraduate division of the JASNA annual essay contest.
Creative Writing MFA Students Create Monthly Reading Series
November 2011
Parcels: MFAs in Progress is a new, monthly reading series organized by current University of Central Florida graduate students pursuing Masters of Fine Arts degrees in Creative Writing. The series aims to share the talents of the current UCF MFA students with the Orlando community.
English M.A. students active at national conferences
October 2011
Students in the Master of Arts in English, Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program have been active at conferences around the country this calendar year. In addition, Lindsay Anderson and April Urban had an article published in Southern Discourse.
Conference Presentations:
Jessica Holland, “Chasing Posthuman Reality: Simulacra, Advertising, and Philip K. Dick’s Ubik .” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2011.
UCF English Lit Majors Take Top Prizes in (Inter)National Jane Austen Essay Contest
August 2011
Two UCF English majors—Faith Dickens and Hillary Casavant—have taken top prizes in the annual Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) essay contest. Faith Dickens won first prize in the undergraduate division for her essay entitled "Whims of the Wealthy: Marriage and Desire for Sense and Sensibility's Miss Grey." Hillary Casavant took second prize for the "Romance and Riches: The Necessity of Wealth in Sense and Sensibility."
Atkins Foundation gives to technical communication scholarship
July 2011
The Atkins Foundation, Inc., has awarded a grant of $3,000 to the UCF Foundation, Inc. in support of the STC-UCF Melissa Pellegrin Memorial Scholarship, an endowment established by the Orlando Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. The STC endowment is managed by the philanthropic arm of the University of Central Florida, the UCF Foundation, Inc., in coordination with Orlando STC leadership.
Kelle Groom's memoir gaining national attention
July 2011
UCF alum Kelle Groom is garnering critical acclaim with her newest book. I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl: A Memoir, from Free Press/Simon & Schuster, was recently selected by Oprah Winfrey for O Magazine’s 2011 summer reading list.
UCF Hosts Creative Writing Classes for Adults and Teens
June 2011
Creative writing workshops for teens and adults this summer aim to build UCF’s literary community.
English Student Presents Paper at PCA Conference
June 2011
On April 20-23, 2010, Amanda Ewoldt, a student in the English M.A. in Literary, Cultural, and Textual studies program, attended the Popular Culture Association conference in San Antonio and presented her paper, "'The twenty-first century is when everything changes': Torchwood and Resistance to Posthumanism."
Peter Telep co-authors Tom Clancy novel
May 2011
By day, Peter Telep teaches screenwriting, creative writing and fiction writing at UCF. By night, he’s a New York Times best-selling author and the most recent collaborator of Tom Clancy, the renowned author of international thrillers.
Masters student Jessica Workman at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Conference
April 2011
Jessica Workman, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, presented her paper , "Chasing Posthuman Reality: Simulacra, Advertising, and Philip K. Dick's Ubik." at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference in San Antonio, TX, on April 20-23, 2011.
The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs
April 2011
UCF is featured in The Huffington Post's "Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs." The article notes that UCF's Creative Writing MFA Program "fully funds nearly all its incoming students" and deserves more attention from applicants.
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Masters student Blake Vives at the American Studies Symposium
April 2011
Blake Vives, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, presented her paper “Uncovering Deborah Sampson’s Apparently Silenced Voice: Gallantress of Early American Female Masculinity” at the American Studies Symposium, “Interrogating Silence(s): A Critical Examination of Memories, Voices, and Identities in American Studies,” at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN on April 14-15, 2011.
Masters student Jay Jay Stroup at the American Studies Symposium
April 2011
Jay Jay Stroup, a student in the Master of Arts in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies program, presented her paper "Rediscovering Bonds of Intimacy: The Female Homosocial and Lesbian Continuum in Milcah Martha Moore’s Book." at the American Studies Symposium, “Interrogating Silence(s): A Critical Examination of Memories, Voices, and Identities in American Studies,” at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN on April 14-15, 2011.
Award-winning poems by Milanés set to music
April 2011
Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés’s Everyday Chica has now been set to music. Winner of the 2010 Longleaf Press Poetry Award, Everyday Chica offers readers an evocative poetic rendering of the Cuban-American experience in language so personal and deeply felt that it becomes for readers the universal language of all natives and exiles, of dislocations and homecomings. Hear her reading of "Back When I was an Exile" with musical accompaniment by Kevin Meehan and Jorge Milanés..
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