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SDSU English major and troubadour Jenny Dempsey graces the pages of Teen People Magazine--click the link above for the details of her celebrity aesthetic tryst with Ryan Cabrera. |
MFA-program Poet Tricia Almase (pronouned, 'All Mossy') is featured in this two-shot, action-packed crosscut sequence wherein MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, author of WOMAN WARRIOR and CHINA MEN, signs Almase's copy of THE FIFTH BOOK OF PEACE at Kingston's reading for literature.sdsu.edu on February 21, 2006. |
SDSU Graduate Rosina Talamantes, one of literature.sdsu.edu's favorite offspring poses with a gaggle of poets at a special writing workshop led by the one and only Galway Kinnell. Kinnell is pictured holding the heart! |
Bullsh**
Department
 
Professor Bill Nericcio, reacting to the camera like it's a 44-magnum, is shown here schmoozing with noted magician, enemy of bullsh*t, comedian, and video entrepreneur, Penn Jillette at the Penn and Teller show at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Fall 2004. |
COWABUNGA
DEPARTMENT
BART SIMPSON'S FATHER HANGS WITH KELLY NICOLSON! SDSU 2002 English and CompLit Grad.
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AS I LAY DYING MEETS JUNKY IN A FOREST DEPARTMENT 
Our own celebrity novelist, Bill Luvaas, camps with a couple of stalwart friends and 'Bills"--Bill Burroughs and Bill Faulkner. utterly probable that the picture has been subjected to Baudrillardian manipulation! |
THE
HOUSE ON LITERATURE.SDSU.EDU STREET DEPARTMENT
Once again trying hard to resemble a deserter facing a firing squad, Professor William A. Nericcio poses with American Literary diva, Sandra Cisneros, at the Border Voices Poetry Extravaganza, April 2004. |
NSYNC
Boyband Star Breaks OUT with SDSU ENGLISH Alum DEPARTMENT!
SDSU
English and Comparative Literature Alumni, WENDY WOZNIAK, |
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Celebrity of All Celebrities DEPARTMENT 
SDSU in London Consortium alum JOHN PAUL GUTIERREZ (even the name anticipates the photograph) appears here invading an Orange County nativity scene; a journalism major by trade, Gutierrez's passion for the celebrity interview perhaps transcends the bounds of good taste and ethics, but firmly places him within the mainstream of Charles Foster Kane, William Randolph Hearst and other gloried practitioners of yellow journalism. Photography ©2002 Gutierrez Inc.Ltd. |
80's
Rock Divas Redux DEPARTMENT
Even
80s ROCK goddesses and divas seek out our homegrown literati! SDSU English
Major JODY RITACCO hangs with the Go-Go's
and friends earlier this year! (left to right) Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte
Caffey, Jane Wiedlin, Angie Heaton, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, and Jody
Ritacco.
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Pillow
Book & Moulin Rouge Squeeze DEPARTMENT
English
and Comparative Literature majors MARISA FIERLE, Maggie Woelke, Cynthia
Tom, and Kelley Buhles enjoy a hot night out in London (Hempstead) with
Ewen Mcgregor outside the tres chic EVERYMAN
CINEMA. All the world--even a dreamy, hunky Cosmopolitan star from
MOULIN
ROUGE!--WANTS TO HANG WITH SDSU LITheads. October 2001.
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SDSU
English and Comparative Literature Alumni, KELLY NICOLSON, shows who is
the REAL schmoozer hanging out recently with the one and only creator or
THE SIMPSONS, Matt Groening. When not cruising with talented American satirists,
Nicolson kicks back as well with her bud Amy Tan. Nicolson, a graduate
of the University of New Hampshire's MA program in English, works in publishing
in Boston, MASS.
presently
working her way up the ladder of the Seaworld/Anheiser Busch conglomerate
Public Relations division, puts her Literature BA to use here, analytically
and diplomatically feigning delight along with her chez-Shamu Seaworld
chums next to noneother than NSYNC-alum, once-boyband fave "Joey," at a
pre-Superbowl party, 2003.