Sandra Cisneros headlines English Department spring literary lineup

February 28, 2024.Reading time 13 minutes.

Fresno State’s Department of English welcomes seven accomplished authors and scholars this spring for campus visits, including the pathbreaking artist Sandra Cisneros, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Professor Emeritus Stanley Poss passes away at 96

January 30, 2024.Reading time 10 minutes.

Dr. Stanley Poss in 2014. Photo credit: John Alden/JA Photography

Dr. Stanley Poss, a Fresno State professor emeritus of English, passed away on Dec. 14, 2023, in Fresno. He was 96.

Professor Emerita Judith Rosenthal passes away at 78

January 22, 2024.Reading time 15 minutes.

Dr. Judith A. Rosenthal, a feminist literary scholar and Fresno State professor emerita of English, passed away from pancreatic cancer on Dec. 25, 2023. She was 78.

English symposium navigates, reconstructs environment

November 28, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Author, translator, and Stanford University professor Roanne L. Kantor will deliver the keynote address for Fresno State’s seventh annual Students of English Studies Association symposium.

Creative Writing Program hosts trio of October author readings

September 25, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

Three headshots of Meg Day, with their head turned to the left; Lars Horn and Brian Turner in black and white..

Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing will host three author readings in the month of October — one featuring the program’s faculty authors, one a celebration of contemporary queer literature, and one welcoming back to campus an alumni author with three new poetry collections being published this fall.

New Faces: Juan Carlos Mantilla

September 8, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty Juan Carlos Mantilla to the Department of English. Dr. Mantilla is an Ecuadorian scholar of the art histories and comparative literatures of early modernity.

Once a Young Writers’ Conference attendee, creative writing major now part of editorial board

April 25, 2023.Reading time 9 minutes.

Isabella De La Torre, by Jefferson Beavers

For high school students like De La Torre, the English Department’s biggest annual event marks a series of firsts: the first time stepping onto a college campus, the first time attending a writing conference and for some, the first time seeing their writing published.

Alumni novelist headlines 2023 Young Writers’ Conference

April 18, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

Fresno State’s English Department will host its 43rd annual Young Writers’ Conference, welcoming alumni author Ethan Chatagnier back to campus for the keynote address.

Mialise Carney and Lucca Lorenzi named Arts and Humanities 2023 Dean’s Medalist

April 15, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

2023 Dean's Medalist Mialise Carney and Lucca Lorenzi

Mialise Carney and Lucca Lorenzi were named the 2023 Dean’s Medalist for the College of Arts and Humanities during the Arts in Motion ceremony on Saturday, April 15, in the Concert Hall.

Student of Distinction: Mia De La Cerda

April 14, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

“At Fresno State, I, for the first time in my life, felt accepted and found a sense of belonging. I was encouraged to write poetry about the experience of farm laborers, tell the story of my grandparents and delve into topics that have been underrepresented.”