Professor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Hoa Nguyen ’91 Receive Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists
They’re among four poets internationally to receive the award.
This interdisciplinary collection of original essays by many hands traces the development of postmodern performance. Its many topics include the differences between ritual and theater, psychoanalytic theory of film and music, and performative writing. It was the inaugural volume in the series, “Theories of Contemporary Culture,” subsequently published for over thirty years.
Funeral black. Chrome bumpers and trim. Blood red velour pillow seats and paneling. The first thing she bought herself after college. An investment in her future. And Ritch stole it.
The sun slept under morning clouds, giving off a bluish light through the dark buildings of the city.
He hated that he didn't have hands like his father, my grandfather, which were, according to my father, hammer hands. But, unfortunately, he, my father, had flame-shaped hands and would often wear gloves to hide them away.
Horse and his fishermen sip water and smoke cigarettes, faces salt stained and cracked raw. Their fishy eyes fall on girls.
“Whispering Sexuality: Queerness and the Limits of Black Satire” in Greater Atlanta: African American Satire since Obama. Ed. Derek Maus and Kim Donahue (U of Mississippi P, forthcoming Fall 2023)
This scholarship award is one of only two and represents all the universities covered in the region across several neighboring states. Shalom is humbled and honored to be recognized in this way for his work these past three years in the English Undergraduate Advising Office and wishes to thank Karen Lewis and Scott Trudell for their nominations and support.