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Table of Contents
100-plus English and Film Studies majors named to Fall 2022 Deans’ List
Faculty in the News Department of English Announcements and Events- Book Launch: Joy Castro’s ONE BRILLIANT FLAME
- Book Launch & Discussion: Joy Castro’s ONE BRILLIANT FLAME
- Bill Clegg, author and agent
- It’s Mint To Be
- BroadCAST Webinar w/ T.J. McDowell, Senior Advisor to the Mayor
- Jazzmeia Horn
- Glow Big Red: Hunt for Bucket Hats
- Love Gala
- Open REACH Training for Students
- REZA: Edge of Illusion
- Lavender Closet Pop-Up
- CAS Inquire: “In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands”
- Condoms, Cookies & Consent
- Resume Lab
- Law School Essay Workshop
- Procrastinators Unite…Tomorrow
- Gaining Experience as a Pre-Law Student
- Legally Blonde - The Musical
- UNL community responds to Nebraska anti-drag legislation
- Nebraska anti-trans bills follow a controversial start to the year
- Why I’m Still on Strike: Portraits from the HarperCollins Picket Line
- How Can Literary Spaces Support Neurodivergent Readers and Writers?
- Fairy Tale as MFA Antidote
- The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in February
- Laura Warrell on Publishing While Black
- Pedro Pascal has pretty good taste in books.
- Viola Davis attains EGOT status with her audiobook win at last night’s Grammys.
- As a Writer, I Let Astrology Guide Me (Up to a Point)
- Films at the Ross
- “Eo” allows audience to empathize with a donkey
- Grammys: Harry Styles Wins Album of the Year, Beyoncé Becomes Most Awarded Artist in Show’s History
- Literary Dispatches from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival
- Matthew McConaughey to Voice Elvis in Netflix Animated Series
- The Most Pirated Film Titles of 2022
100-plus English and Film Studies majors named to Fall 2022 Deans’ List
February 3, 2023
More than 6,900 University of Nebraska–Lincoln students have been named to the Deans’ List for the fall semester of the 2022-23 academic year. The Deans’ List for the College of Arts and Sciences includes over 110 English and film studies majors, many with double majors inside and outside the college.
Faculty in the News
Kwame Dawes on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dawes, the great poet and critic, reflects on the legacy of the rhetorician and abolitionist Douglass, in the introduction to a new edition of his monumental autobiography
By Kwame Dawes | February 6, 2023
https://lithub.com/kwame-dawes-narrative-life-frederick-douglass/
Department of English Announcements and Events
Book Launch: Joy Castro’s ONE BRILLIANT FLAME
Date: Feb. 10, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Francie & Finch Bookshop
130 S 13th St
Lincoln NE 68508
Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it’s also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams.
They all brim with secrets: Zenaida, the daughter of an assassinated Havana journalist; power-hungry Sofia, who plots a fast track to success; Chaveta, Zenaida’s loyal comrade in arms who fearlessly flouts tradition; Feliciano, a charismatic Galician anarchist; Líbano, the cafetero, silent and watchful; and Maceo, a daring guerrilla soldier who fights a brutal undertow. As lives intertwine, revolution smolders, and passions ignite, the bustling coral island is set to explode.
Against the backdrop of the Great Fire of Key West, One Brilliant Flame explores the luminous fates of consuming passion and encroaching peril in the face of insurrection, sacrifice, and inextinguishable hope.
“Suspenseful and steeped in history, Joy Castro’s One Brilliant Flame transports readers to a vibrant nineteenth-century Key West, one stoked by revolution in Cuba and inflamed by the passions of striking young characters. Castro’s novel beautifully illuminates a largely forgotten history in a memorable and compelling light. I learned so much, but more importantly, I couldn’t put it down.” —Chantel Acevedo, author of The Distant Marvels
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joy Castro is the award-winning author of Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home, which have been published in France by Gallimard’s historic Série Noire; the story collection How Winter Began; the memoir The Truth Book; and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also editor of the craft anthology Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family and the founding series editor of Machete, a series in innovative literary nonfiction at The Ohio State University Press. She served as the guest judge of CRAFT‘s first Creative Nonfiction Award, and her work has appeared in venues including Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, Senses of Cinema, Salon, Gulf Coast, Brevity, Afro-Hispanic Review, Seneca Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine. A former Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, she is currently the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies (Latinx Studies) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Book Launch & Discussion: Joy Castro’s ONE BRILLIANT FLAME
Date: Feb. 11, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Indigo Bridge Books
701 P Street, Suite 102
Lincoln NE 68508
ABOUT THE BOOK
Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it’s also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams.
They all brim with secrets: Zenaida, the daughter of an assassinated Havana journalist; power-hungry Sofia, who plots a fast track to success; Chaveta, Zenaida’s loyal comrade in arms who fearlessly flouts tradition; Feliciano, a charismatic Galician anarchist; Líbano, the cafetero, silent and watchful; and Maceo, a daring guerrilla soldier who fights a brutal undertow. As lives intertwine, revolution smolders, and passions ignite, the bustling coral island is set to explode.
Against the backdrop of the Great Fire of Key West, One Brilliant Flame explores the luminous fates of consuming passion and encroaching peril in the face of insurrection, sacrifice, and inextinguishable hope.
“Suspenseful and steeped in history, Joy Castro’s One Brilliant Flame transports readers to a vibrant nineteenth-century Key West, one stoked by revolution in Cuba and inflamed by the passions of striking young characters. Castro’s novel beautifully illuminates a largely forgotten history in a memorable and compelling light. I learned so much, but more importantly, I couldn’t put it down.” —Chantel Acevedo, author of The Distant Marvels
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joy Castro is the award-winning author of Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home, which have been published in France by Gallimard’s historic Série Noire; the story collection How Winter Began; the memoir The Truth Book; and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also editor of the craft anthology Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family and the founding series editor of Machete, a series in innovative literary nonfiction at The Ohio State University Press. She served as the guest judge of CRAFT‘s first Creative Nonfiction Award, and her work has appeared in venues including Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, Senses of Cinema, Salon, Gulf Coast, Brevity, Afro-Hispanic Review, Seneca Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine. A former Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, she is currently the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies (Latinx Studies) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Bill Clegg, author and agent
Date: Feb. 23, 2023
Time: 5:30 pm
Nebraska Union: Platte River Room North
Clegg is also a literary agent, called “the most famous agent in book publishing” by Vanity Fair. His agency represents the acclaimed authors Lauren Groff, Ottessa Moshfegh, Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, and UNL’s own Chigozie Obioma, Rachel Cochran, and Scott Guild.
Photo credit: Van Scott-Clegg
University Announcements and Events
It’s Mint To Be
Date: Feb. 14, 2023
Time: 10:00 am–4:00 pm
Nebraska Union: 3rd Floor Hallway
At this casual grab-and-go event, UNL students can pick up:
• a DIY planting kit* with a small pot and seeds to grow your own fresh mint.
• a Safer Sex Kit with condoms and lube. Mint-flavored condoms and dental dams are available, too.
• How-to materials for building safe and healthy relationships, as well as safer-sex resources.
• Chocolate and mint-flavored candies.
*Limited number of kits are available while supplies last.
BroadCAST Webinar w/ T.J. McDowell, Senior Advisor to the Mayor
Date: Feb. 14, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
Online
BroadCAST, the webinar interview series of the UNL Center for Academic Success & Transition, features conversations about life, education and the value of the liberal arts between CAST Senior Program Coordinator Dan Hutt and highly successful guests from diverse backgrounds.
https://success.unl.edu/resources/broadCAST
Jazzmeia Horn
Date: Feb. 14, 2023
Time: 7:30 pm–9:00 pm
Lied Center for Performing Arts
“Without a doubt among the jazz world’s most exciting young vocalists”
- Billboard
https://www.liedcenter.org/event/jazzmeia-horn
Glow Big Red: Hunt for Bucket Hats
Date: Feb. 15, 2023
City and East Campuses
How to play:
1. On Wednesday morning, the 10 bucket hats (shown in photo) will be hidden around City and East campuses.
2. Find a bucket hat, take a photo wearing it, post it to Instagram or Twitter with the message, “I found a Husker bucket hat! #GlowBigRed”. Bonus points if you take a selfie in front of a donor-named space.
3. A representative will contact you to select the cause you want to receive the challenge funds.
4. You get to keep the bucket hat!
Scavenger hunt for students
Love Gala
Date: Feb. 16, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm–11:00 pm
Union Ballroom
Open REACH Training for Students
Date: Feb. 17, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm–2:30 pm
University Health Center, Room 126
REACH is an interactive 90-minute training designed to help the university community prevent suicide by teaching faculty, staff and students how to:
Recognize warning signs
Engage with empathy
Ask directly about suicide
Communicate hope
Help suicidal individuals to access care and treatment
Participants who attend the full 90-minute training will receive a certificate and a REACH lapel pin.
Register at https://forms.office.com/r/rqJvJiaXGv
https://preventsuicide.unl.edu/reach-training
REZA: Edge of Illusion
Date: Feb. 18, 2023
Time: 7:30 am
Lied Center for Performing Arts
“World’s top touring illusionist!”
- The Denver Post
“Incredible! Loved it!”
- Penn & Teller, Fool Us