Faculty Accomplishments

An interview with Anna Maria Hong, “A Little Bit Blown Apart: On Dispellations,” was published in Shenandoah on October 1, 2021. https://shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/a-little-bit-blown-apart-on-dispellations/

Was interviewed by Mass Poetry for “Getting to Know Anna Maria Hong & Her New Book, Fablesque,” published on April 26, 2021.

Was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Fablesque was also featured in “10 Feminist Retellings of Mythology” by Christine Hume in Electric Literature on January, 5, 2021 and in Strange Horizons’ “2020 in Review”.

Read from her second poetry collection, Fablesque, at Baltimore’s HOT L Poets Series with Lesley Wheeler on December 13, 2020. She also read in The Brooklyn Rail’s Radical Poetry Reading series with Rosa Alcalá, Susan Briante, giovanni singleton, and Carmen Giménez Smith on December 16, 2020.

Read from her recently published poetry collection, Fablesque, and conversed with Andrea Lawlor at the Odyssey Bookshop on October 29, 2020. She read from Fablesque and new work with Elizabeth A. I. Powell at the Sundog Poetry Center on November 11, 2020.

Presented her paper “Playset: The Sonnet as Enabling Constraint” at the Sonnets from the American Symposium on October 2, 2020. She read from her recently published poetry collection, Fablesque, at Johns Hopkins University’s Film and Media Studies program on September 24, 2020.

Gave a public lecture titled "Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Pioneer in Psychiatry"  to mark the awarding of National Historic Landmark status to "Frieda's Cottage," Fromm-Reichmann's home and office at Chestnut Lodge Hospital (Rockville, MD) for more than 20 years and an iconic place in the history of psychiatry. Recording at:  www.peerlessrockville.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/middleeditcomp-online-video-cutter.com_.mp4

Serin D. Houston's book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, was honored at the American Association of Geographers conference in April 2021 at a book celebration event and an "Author Meets her Readers" session. 

Serin D. Houston gave a talk on March 25, 2021 for the Zube Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Her talk was titled, 'Unsettling Whiteness in Neighborhood Planning: Social Justice Efforts in Seattle, WA."