Cliff Hudder (MFA 1995) was recently named one of three new councilors elected for the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE).

As a councilor, Hudder will be influential in planning CCTE’s annual meeting, which features workshops and presentations by prominent scholars and writers in the field.

CCTE is a statewide organization of English teachers devoted to improving teaching and advancing research in English language and literature in both two- and four-year colleges. Hudder will serve on the CCTE council for 3 years.

Hudder has been an archaeologist, a film and video editor, a photographer, an air compressor mechanic, electrical lineman, and educator.

He is an accomplished Lone Star College-Montgomery English professor and holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. He is currently working toward a doctorate degree from Texas A&M University.

Hudder has also received CCTE’s Texas College English Association Award for his paper, “Barbarously Large and Final: Placing Texas in Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place,” which will appear in the 2010 CCTE Studies Journal.

The paper is based on Brammer’s novel, which according to Hudder, is unlike most Texas books since “it doesn’t contain a single stock tank, heifer, or mosquito.”

He has been an English professor at LSC-Montgomery since 2002, and teaches Composition I and II, American and World Literature, Creative Writing, and Writing About Texas Film and Literature. He is also the faculty advisor for the campus’ literary journal, SWIRL, as well as the chair of the Writers in Performance committee.

Hudder's first book, Splinterville was released in 2008. His stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Missouri Review among other publications, and his work has received the Barthelme Award, the Michener Award, the Peden Prize, and the Brazos Bookstore Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.

He lives in Conroe, Texas with his wife, Kazumi, and son, Dylan.

CLASS congratulates Professor Cliff Hudder on his accomplishments and we look forward to hearing more about his success in the future.