Ever so many congratulations to two new Creative Writing PhDs, Victoria Kornick and James Ciano, whom I had the privilege of hooding today. I worked quite closely with Victoria, which is a self-aggrandizing way of saying how much I enjoy reading everything she writes, whether it's personal memoir-essays, poems, or the lit crit part of her CW PhD, which was on cultivated plants in C19th British fiction - and from which I learned a lot. And James, her husband, is a terrific poet, and is off on a post-doc to Emory next year. Look out for them if you're in or around Decatur ...
And from Art History, the newly-minted Danielle Charlap with our very own Amy Ogata: Danielle is shortly off to a Job, which is wonderful to hear.
Then here's our outgoing Interim Dean, Moh El Naggar, who gave an excellent and spirited very short speech: I so wish he wanted to stay on as Dean of the College, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
We weren't meant to be having any departmental celebrations this year - part of USC's general austerity - but the Art History department has never been one to flee the possibility of a good party, and somehow a very decadent cake and some fizzy water found its way into THH 309, and we toasted.
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