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Join us for this two-day conference featuring 100 undergraduate student scholars presenting posters, creative projects, and papers on humanities-related topics. 

The full schedule and program will be posted in January. This conference is free to attend and open to the public. Faculty, staff, alumni, friends, family, and community members are welcome to attend the poster sessions and panel discussions. Come show our USF undergraduate students support and learn about the humanities research and projects they've been working on. 

Alison C. Rollins will read and perform from her groundbreaking collection Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). Inspired by the nineteenth-century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, these poems explore the intersections between individual experience and collective memory. Rollins was named a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and book signing to follow the event.

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This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and book signing to follow the event.

Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker and Christina Sharpe.

He has fellowships from CantoMundo and the Poets House. He has been featured on the Poetry Magazine Podcast and Seattle’s The Stranger. He is the Poetry Editor of the Seattle Met and practices echocardiography.

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This one-day graduate research symposium will take place in the Marshall Student Center on the USF Tampa campus. Free breakfast and lunch is provided for presenters as well as a swag bag.

Faculty interested in serving as a panel moderator can contact Liz Kicak. The symposium is also free to attend for audience members. Come support our graduate students!

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Dana Levin is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Now Do You Know Where You Are (2022), a New York Times Notable Book and NPR “Book We Love.” Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Glück for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Banana Palace, published in 2016, was a finalist for the Rilke Prize.

Levin’s poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Poetry. Her fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as the Lannan, Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. With Adele Elise Williams, she co-edited Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master (2023) for the Unsung Masters Series.

Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she lives.

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