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Job Placement
Our graduates from the past ten years currently hold a variety of positions in both academic and...
Winter Poetry Contest: Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize
The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize is an annual poetry contest for undergraduates of any major...

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Faculty Bookshelf

What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the authors early childhood...
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
Blurton, Heather

From Beowulf through the literature of the crusades...
Red Leather Gloves
Olguín, Ben

2015 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Award for Poetry
IBPA 2015 Benjamin Franklin Poetry Award...
One World of Literature
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

One World of Literature addresses students' concerns about social relevance in their reading, and their...
A Forward Glance: New Essays on Edith Wharton
Waid, Candace

This collection focuses on questions of biography, autobiography and aesthetics in...
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Norton Critical Edition
Waid, Candace

The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry
Huang, Yunte

This book is not an attempt to grasp the "essence" of Chinese poetry, nor is it an endeavor to produce...
Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
Moraga, Cherríe

Cherríe Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel...
Cribs
Huang, Yunte

Cribs is a discrete sequence of poems probing into the manifolds of the book's title word: "crib" as a small child's bed, as literal...
At the Risk of Seeming Ridiculous: Poems from Cuba Libre
Olguín, Ben

In the tradition of testimonial poets raúlrsalinas, Carolyn Forché, Luís...
The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
Liu, Alan

“Knowledge work” is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even...
Tactical Media
Raley, Rita

Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to...

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