.国产短视频

国产短视频

Department of English

TAMPA | ST. PETERSBURG | SARASOTA-MANATEE

News & Updates

Undergraduate Student Published in Professor Grewal鈥檚 Class

国产短视频undergraduate student Karen Gonzalez-Videla鈥檚 first publication, 鈥,鈥 appeared in Sidereal Magazine鈥檚 sixth issue. The piece was a midterm lyric essay, written and revised in Professor Gurleen Grewal鈥檚 course, LIT 3093 Contemporary Literature: Poetics of Loss, in spring 2020. 

Amidst the grim disruptions of COVID-19 came the good news from Gonzalez-Videla. 鈥淭his was my first acceptance from a magazine and I could not be happier,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 just wanted to thank [Professor Grewal] for inspiring me to write it, and for teaching the art of memoirs, personal essays, and nonfiction in general so well! If it weren鈥檛 for [Professor Grewal鈥檚] class, I would have never written nonfiction and fallen in love with it.鈥 

Assignments in the Contemporary Literature course allowed for both analytical papers and creative nonfiction writing. Gonzalez-Videla responded to an assignment where students were asked to write about losses experienced, using as a model Brian Arundel鈥檚 short prose piece 鈥淭he Things I鈥檝e Lost.鈥 

鈥淒r. Grewal鈥檚 teachings and passion for nonfiction opened my eyes to the possibilities of this art, one that I will continue to explore for years, and I could not be more grateful.鈥 Gonzalez-Videla said. 鈥淎s a fiction writer, I had the incorrect idea that to write nonfiction meant to replace the creative use of language that I was used to with something uninteresting and tedious. And yet, I鈥檝e been at the height of my creativity when writing my now-published nonfiction essay 鈥楢 Catalog of the Events After I Boarded a Plane in Buenos Aires, Argentina.鈥欌

Return to article listing

Category

About Department News

Department of English students, alumni, and faculty can submit news of accomplishments and events for our News section. We welcome announcements of publications, works presented, jobs procured, awards garnered, scholarships awarded, graduate school placements, and upcoming events.