Announcements
2021; Penn State University Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5325/steinbeckreview.18.2.0214
ISSN1754-6087
Autores Tópico(s)American and British Literature Analysis
ResumoDaniel Lanza Rivers (they/them) has assumed the role of Director of the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San José State University. Daniel is replacing Nick Taylor, who has moved on to become Resident Director of California State University's International Programs in Aix-en-Provence and Paris, France. Daniel is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Literature at SJSU, where they teach courses in U.S. literature, cultural studies, animal studies, and the environmental humanities. Daniel's current manuscript project, Life Outside, explores the ways that U.S. settlers' perceptions of California's natural state have shaped the management of its environments and people, as well as the shape of its literature. Their writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Apogee, Joyland, and Women's Studies, in which they edited the special issue “Futures of Feminist Science Studies.” Daniel's writing has most recently been published in Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals (Springer 2021) and Becoming-Feral: A Bestiary (Object-a 2021), and their creative nonfiction is forthcoming in Terrain.org and Boom: a journal of California. As Director of the MHC Center for Steinbeck Studies, Daniel looks forward to stewarding the Center's ongoing programs while exploring new programming related to Steinbeck's love of ecology, citizen science, and California environments.The Martha Heasley Cox Center is also pleased to announce that novelist, essayist, and short story writer Keenan Norris has joined the Center as Director of the Steinbeck Fellows program. Keenan is the author of Brother and the Dancer (Heyday 2013), By the Lemon Tree (Nomad Press 2018), and, most recently, The Confession of Copeland Cane (Unnamed Press, 2021). Keenan was a 2017 Marin Headlands Artist-in-Residence and has garnered a Public Voices fellowship (2020), a Callaloo fellowship (2016), and two Yerba Buena Center for the Arts fellowships (2015, 2017). He is a guest editor for the Oxford African American Studies Center and editor of the seminal Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. Keenan's short work has appeared in numerous forums, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, LitHub, Alta, Electric Literature, Remezcla, PopMatters.com, and several anthologies of California literature. He is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at San José State University.The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San José State University is pleased to welcome walk-in visitors on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Center staff and archives are available by appointment Tuesday through Friday.To schedule an appointment, please contact Archivist Peter Van Coutren at peter.vancoutren@sjsu.edu.The Center would also like to call attention to the following tools and updates for researchers.The Center is coordinating in the Steinbeck Letters Project, which will create a searchable database listing of John Steinbeck's letters starting with the letters in the Center's possession.Anyone interested in more information or contributing to this project, please contact us at steinbeck@sjsu.edu.The Steinbeck Center has acquired a copy of “Murder at Full Moon,” Steinbeck's unpublished “werewolf” novel. This item can only be viewed in the Center and may not be copied or circulated.To make an appointment or for more information contact us at steinbeck@sjsu.edu.This online database, available at https://steinbeckbibliosite.sjsu.edu, is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of the works by and about John Steinbeck, the largest project of its kind dedicated to a single American author. Compiled by SJSU since the Cox Center's founding in 1974, the database now has over twelve thousand entries. A new web interface introduced in 2020 allows researchers to perform keyword searches and to sort results by author, year, journal, and many other criteria.This searchable archive of 2,300 photos related to Steinbeck is housed in the new Digital Collections repository of SJSU's Martin Luther King Jr. Library. The new system allows researchers to search on fields including date, description, photographer, and Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH).For assistance searching any of the Center's digital resources, please contact us at steinbeck@sjsu.edu.Because of ongoing concerns about the variability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the ongoing travel restrictions produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the MHC Center for Steinbeck Studies has postponed the next International Steinbeck Conference until the Spring/Summer 2023 season. We look forward to hosting the International Steinbeck community at San José State University's campus in 2023, when we can reconvene, swap stories, and share our work.In memory of Louis Owens, the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies established this award to honor undergraduate and graduate student work on Steinbeck and related subjects. Undergraduate and graduate students may submit, or faculty may submit on their behalf.Send as attachment to steinbeck@sjsu.edu, or by regular mail to: Louis Owens Essay PrizeMartha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck StudiesSan José State UniversitySan José, CA 95192-0202The Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San José State University has named six Steinbeck Fellows for the 2021–22 academic year: Ariel Chu, Rose Himber Howse, Tammy Heejae Lee, Uche Okonkwo, Timea Sipos, and Brian Trapp.The Steinbeck Fellowship program offers emerging writers of any age and background a $15,000 fellowship to finish a significant writing project. Named in honor of author John Steinbeck, the program is guided by his lifetime of work in literature, the media, and environmental activism. The Steinbeck Fellows program was endowed through the generosity of SJSU Professor Emerita Martha Heasley Cox.The next deadline for applications is January 3, 2022. For eligibility and application instructions, visit https://www.sjsu.edu/steinbeck/fellows/steinbeck fellows_apply/.Ariel Chu is a Taiwanese American writer from Eastvale, California, and an incoming first-year student in USC's Creative Writing and Literature PhD program. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Syracuse University, where she received the Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction. A former editor-in-chief of Salt Hill Journal, a 2019 P. D. Soros Fellow, and a 2020 Luce Scholar in Taipei, Ariel has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best Small Fictions Anthology, and the Best of the Net Award. Her writing can be found in The Common, Masters Review, and Sonora Review, among others. Ariel is currently working on a short story collection and novel.Rose Himber Howse is a queer writer from North Carolina and a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as fiction editor of the Greensboro Review. Rose's fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Joyland, Carolina Quarterly, Hobart, YES! Magazine, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Monson Arts.Tammy Heejae Lee is a Korean American writer from Davis, CA. She holds a BA from UC Davis and an MFA in fiction from the University of San Francisco, where she received a postgraduate teaching fellowship. A Tin House Summer Workshop and VONA/Voices alum, her writing has appeared in The Offing, PANK, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Split Lip Magazine. She is currently at work on her first novel about expat and hagwon culture in Seoul.Uche Okonkwo has an MFA in fiction from Virginia Tech and a master's in creative writing from University of Manchester. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in One Story, Ploughshares, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, A Public Space, Lagos Noir, Per Contra, and Ellipsis. She was a 2019 Bernard O'Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf and a 2017 resident at Writers Omi. She is the recipient of the 2020–21 George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy—a fellowship established to provide time and freedom from material considerations to a selected writer each year. She is working on her first short story collection.Timea Sipos is a Hungarian American writer, poet, and translator with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her writing and translations appear in Prairie Schooner, Passages North, Juked, The Offing, Denver Quarterly, The Bisexual Poetry Anthology, and elsewhere. She is a proud 2021 Pushcart Prize nominee, a PEN / Robert J. Dau Prize nominee, a Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Fellowship Honorable Mention, and a Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award finalist. Her work has received support from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, the American Literary Translators Association, the Hungarian Translators' House, the Black Mountain Institute, and the Nevada Arts Council, among others. During her fellowship year, she will be finishing her short story collection and making headway on her novel.Brian Trapp is a fiction and creative nonfiction writer from Cleveland. He has published work in the Kenyon Review, Longreads, Gettysburg Review, Narrative, Brevity, and Ninth Letter, among other places. He won an Oregon Arts Fellowship and had an essay selected as the #1 Longread of the Week by LongReads.com. He received his PhD in comparative literature and disability studies from the University of Cincinnati, where he was an associate editor of the Cincinnati Review. He now teaches at the University of Oregon. He will be at work on a memoir about his twin brother, Danny, who had cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities and was also very funny.
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