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New York Times Article Features Professor David Peña-Guzman
SFSU professor David Peña-Guzman was featured in the New York Times article, "Why Universities Should Be More Like Monasteries." Read the article here.
SFSU Lecturer Jolie Goorjian Contributes to New Book
SFSU lecturer Jolie Goorjian contributed to a new book, Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition.
"This collection of activities for the composition classroom includes dozens of practical, useful, successful, and accessible exercises that have been developed and implemented by writing instructors from all over the country. Editors Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad have assembled a collection of tried-and-proven teaching activities to help both novice and experienced teachers plan, prepare, and implement writing instruction in college. As two educators who have been teaching writing in the field for more than a decade, they have created the resource they wished they had."
The book is available for pre-order here.
Association of American Publishers Announce Finalists and Category Winners for 2023 Prose Awards
Associate Professor David M. Peña-Guzmán awarded PROSE Award for his book “When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness.”
SFSU Professor David M. Peña-Guzmán Wins Prestigious Prose Award
Professor David M. Peña-Guzmán's book, When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness, was named the Philosophy Category Winner by The Association of American Publishers' in the 47th Annual PROSE Awards.
Dr. Rob Thomas Completes their MA in Instructional Technologies at SFSU
Dr. Rob Thomas completed their MA in Instructional Technologies at SFSU in December of 2022. Their final project was the creation of their course, “Thinking with Video Games” (CWL 380), which is being taught for the very first time this semester as part of the Video Game Studies (VGS) minor.
For more information, see the Video game Studies website and Dr. Thomas's teaching portfolio.
University of Chicago Press Publishes Review by SFSU Professor George Leonard
The University of Chicago Press’s Journal of Philosophy and Literary Criticism, Modern Philology, published Prof. George Leonard's review of the new book from Oxford UP by the philosopher, Nancy Yousef. The book is titled, The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein and the Language of Every Day. You can read Prof. Leonard's review here.
SFSU Professor Dr. Shirin Khanmohamadi Awarded Grant for Second Book
Dr. Shirin Khanmohamadi was awarded a NEH grant to work on her second book, tentatively titled Splendorous Saracens: translating Islamicate imperial authority in medieval European literature. Dr. Khanmohamadi also serves as an Editor of Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory.
Upcoming book from SFSU Lecturer Dr. Peter Richardson
SFSU lecturer Dr. Peter Richardson was recently received a contract offer from the University of California Press for his current book project titled, Brand New Beat: Rolling Stone Magazine and the San Francisco Counterculture, 1967-77. Dr. Richardson expects to publish the book in 2025. The announcement appeared in the Publishers Marketplace Deal Report.
Armenians of Colorado Host Society for Armenian Studies Dinner and Panel in Denver
Professor Emerita Carel Bertram participates in panel discussion for the Society for Armenian Studies in Denver