Journal Article Receives Award
November 2009: The article "Erotica and women in early modern France: Madeleine de l'Aubespine's Queer Poems" in Journal of the History Sexuality 17:2 received the 2009 Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Congratulations to the article author, Anna Klosowska, on this award!
In Memoriam: John Tveten
November 2009: We were greatly saddened to learn of the recent death of our author John Tveten. Mr. Tveten was a noted Texas naturalist; along with his wife Gloria, he wrote several books, including two UT Press titles. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the Tveten family.
Obituary on the Texas Master Naturalist Heartwood Chapter website
Book in New York Times
November 2009: The forthcoming book Where Heaven and Earth Meet was featured in a New York Times article on November 15.
Read the article (registration required).
Book on U.S./Mexico Border Receives Anthropology Award
Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts by Alejandro Lugo is a winner of the 2009 Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award. Congratulations to Professor Lugo!
Author Receives Native Plant Society Award
Matt Warnock Turner has received the Carroll Abbott Memorial Award from the Native Plant Society of Texas for his book Remarkable Texas Plants. Congratulations to the author on this honor!
Mexican Novel Featured on NPR's "You Must Read This"
October 2009: Juan Rulfo's novel, The Burning Plain, was recommended by writer Oscar Casares on NPR's "You Must Read This". The segment aired on All Things Considered on October 15. Casares also mentions Rulfo's Pedro Páramo.
Listen to the segment on NPR.
Book Receives Gloria Anzaldua Award
October 2009: Native Speakers, by María Eugenia Cotera, received the National Women's Studies Association' Gloria Anzaldua book prize for 2009. Congratulations to Professor Cotera!
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