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SDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature SDSU's English & Comparative Literature page: a virtual gathering place for folks interest in writing, reading, and culture! Read, Aztecs, read!

http://literature.sdsu.edu/ We represent the proud English and Comp Lit tradition at California State University's flagship campus.

E-Lit Competition Winner ShowcaseJoin us for the student showcase for the winners of the recent annual Electronic Litera...
10/08/2026

E-Lit Competition Winner Showcase
Join us for the student showcase for the winners of the recent annual Electronic Literature competition!

Monday, November 2, 2026
12 - 1:45 p.m.
Digital Humanities Center, LA-61

Featuring SDSU Creative Writing MFA Students Jon Tobias, Em Teaze, Vide Sale-Reed!

Coming up next week! The next Living Writers Series event will feature award-winning Poet, D.S. Waldman! Join us at 7 p....
10/07/2026

Coming up next week! The next Living Writers Series event will feature award-winning Poet, D.S. Waldman! Join us at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430 on Wednesday, October 14!

D.S. Waldman will read from his celebrated poetry collection, "Atria." Of the work, Aracelis Girmay raves, “An understated, exquisite work of intellect and lucid attention, a minor geography made of language, suggestion, and absence.” This event is co-sponsored by the Instructionally Related Activities Fund.

D.S. Waldman is the author of the poetry collection "Atria" (Liveright/WW Norton, 2026). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, ZYZZYVA, and many other publications. His honors include a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Waldman lives and teaches creative writing in New York City. He’s currently at work on a novel.

Midterms are coming up! Need help with your essays or creative writing projects? Come to the drop-in office hours for wr...
10/06/2026

Midterms are coming up! Need help with your essays or creative writing projects? Come to the drop-in office hours for writing tutoring!

Drop-In Tutoring Hours:
Now - December 9, 2026
Tuesdays: 11 AM - 1 PM
Wednesdays: 1 - 3 PM

Location: Arts & Letters Writing Center, AL 232

Please bring a copy of the assignment information, instructor's criteria, and your typed paper, and keep in mind the following:
-This is a learning experience, not an editing service.
-Tutoring is walk-in only and on a first-come-first-served basis.
-Your time with the tutor will be limited to 20 minutes if other students are waiting.
-If the tutor is assisting another student, please wait in the hallway.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

10/02/2026

Mark your calendars! A book talk with Professor Marc C. Marino is coming up on Thursday, October 8 from 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. in the Digital Humanities Center (LA-61).

"Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI" Join as they discuss how the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them. As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, "Inventing ELIZA" offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies.

10/02/2026

Save the date! Professor Jessica Pressman will be giving a talk at the Mingei Museum in Balboa Park on Friday, October 9 at 10:30 a.m. as part of the Mingei's "To Catch a Fish" exhibit.

This talk will consider what we can learn by taking seriously the contemporary mermaid renaissance, catching a fish or two, and carefully examining these examples as a means of understanding the larger current. What might mermaids—from contemporary culture AND Mingei's exhibition—tell us about culture’s most pressing anxieties and concerns, past and present?

Register here: https://mingei.org/events/lecture/art-break-24-2

10/02/2026

E-Lit Workshops, 9/28, 10/5, & 10/19

Join us in the Digital Humanities Center’s E-Lit Studio for a series of workshops on Electronic Literature! Digital Humanities Center: LA 61, Bottom of the Library Dome

If you are interested in attending any of the E-Lit workshops this fall, please fill out this RSVP form at the link below. This form will help determine what types of literature and tools attendees may be interested in exploring during these workshops.

-Intro to E-Lit (Hybrid - on Zoom and in person) 9/28, 1-2 PM: Attendees will learn about the history of Electronic Literature, peruse existing projects, and explore different tools for creating their own E-Lit projects.

-E-Lit Playdates! 10/5 and 10/19, 1-2 PM: Depending on feedback from this form, these playdates may include a brief tutorial in one or more E-Lit creative tool(s). This will also serve as co-working time for Twine and other E-Lit projects. Attendees will be able to work on their own creative projects, ask questions, and show off their projects to peers.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLQLu81ujPSZvuXnrkYhvGoKzCJ0VOOwE1PI4ZkgwSXbQCPQ/viewform

The Living Writers Series is back on Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430! The Laurie Okuma Me...
09/23/2026

The Living Writers Series is back on Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430! The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading will feature acclaimed author, Alicia Upano!

Each semester, thanks to an endowment created by her family and friends, the Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading honors the memory of SDSU alumna, Laurie Matsueda Okuma. The fall, 2026 Okuma Author, Alicia Upano, will share excerpts from her debut novel, "Everything to the Sea," which has been lauded as “An arresting, profound, and fiercely beautiful debut.”

Alicia Upano was born and raised in Hawai‘i. She is the recipient of the Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award Hawai‘i, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and a Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholarship. Her short fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, The Best Peace Fiction: A Social Justice Anthology, and more. After living in Asia and both U.S. continental coasts, she now resides on O‘ahu with her family.

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