New Faces: English welcomes Dr. Lisa Weston as Interim Chair

September 12, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Interim Chair of English - Dr. Lisa Weston

Dr. Lisa Weston has taught a variety of Medieval Literature courses at Fresno State. She was born in England and raised there and in Canada before immigrating to the United States. She received her Ph.D. in 1982 from UCLA, where she studied Old and Middle English, Medieval Latin, Norse and Celtic literatures.

Acclaimed Author Lacy M. Johnson to speak at Fresno State

September 11, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Lacy M. Johnson is author of “The Reckonings” (Scribner, 2018), which was named a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in criticism and one of the best books of 2018 by the Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Autostraddle, Book Riot, and Refinery29.

‘Normal’ magazine moves to online-only publication

August 6, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Fresno State’s locally grown, nationally known literary magazine, The Normal School, will become an online-only publication starting this fall, ending an 11-year run as a printed periodical. The Spring/Summer 2019 issue of the magazine, due to hit bookstores by late August, will be its last physical issue.

Kudos to Fresno Writers: June July 2019

August 2, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a monthly series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.

The inaugural Sherley Anne Williams and Lawson Fusao Inada Writing Contest

July 31, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

In these writings, the authors often achieved that highest accomplishment of art: they worked with the raw material of pain–their own or the world’s–and transmuted it into a thing of beauty.

Kudos to Fresno Writers: May 2019

June 6, 2019.Reading time 10 minutes.

Life After Grad School: Leo Rowland

May 31, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

“I strongly believe in the value of not turning away from science or business or social sciences if you are grounded in the arts, and vice-versa.” – Leo Rowland

Provost Awards honor CAH faculty

May 9, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Dr. Melanie Hernandez, Faith Sidlow and Steven Church

The Provost’s Awards were established in 1993 to recognize the outstanding teaching, research and service that is central to the mission of Fresno State. Honorees provide students with a stimulating environment that fosters learning and affirms the University as an intellectual and cultural leader in the Central Valley.

Fresno State CAH alumna Marisol Baca named Fresno Poet Laureate

May 2, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Fresno State alumna Marisol Baca is the City of Fresno’s fourth Poet Laureate. She will be the first woman to serve as the city’s literary ambassador.

English alumni gather for multiethnic literature conference anniversary

April 25, 2019.Reading time 24 minutes.

Fresno State alumni Erin Álvarez, Zoyer Zyndel, Lena Mahmoud, Neama Alamri, Leila Alamri-Kassim, Carrie Ayala, and Jeremiah Henry returned to campus to lead an alumni roundtable discussion on how the English Department’s annual UCMLA conference has impacted their lives.

For the 10th annual conference, the English Department reunited with alumni who were part of the UCMLA journey, as either presenters or organizers or both, by inviting them back to campus for an anniversary reception, and an alumni roundtable and discussion.