Congratulations:
Graduating MFA fiction student Josh Lopez has been selected as the 2016-17 L.D. Clark and LaVerne Harrell Clark Writer-in-Residence. Josh will live and write in the Clarks’ historic home in Smithville and also teach classes in the Department of English.
John Blair’s new prize-winning collection of poems Playful Song Called Beautiful has just been released and is now available from the University of Iowa Press, online at Amazon.com and elsewhere.
In July 2015, Teya Rosenberg gave the keynote lecture for “Child, Youth, and Place in Atlantic Canadian Literature,” a symposium that included scholars from across Canada and the US. Her lecture, “We Do Have Jack: Considering Contexts for the Jack Series by Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji,” plus other highlights of the symposium (including a wonderful puppet show), are now available online on YouTube and through Sea Stacks, a website for Atlantic Canadian books for young readers: https://seastacks.lib.unb.ca/content/child-youth-and-place-atlantic-canadian-literature-9th-raddall-symposium.
Haley Stuart, senior English major, has won Sigma Tau Delta’s national Herbert Hughes Short Story Award for her story, “Semblance.” The story appears in the 2016 issue of The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, the honor society’s national journal of creative writing. This is her first publication. The 2016 issue is available online as a PDF: http://www.english.org/sigmatd/pdf/publications/rectangle.pdf.
Rob Tally’s article “Lukács’s Literary Cartography: Spatiality, Cognitive Mapping, and The Theory of the Novel” appears in the current issue of Mediations (Spring 2016).
MFA poetry student James Deitz’s poem “After the Iraqi Sun” will appear in the Austin International Poetry Festival anthology, di-verse-city. Anamesa Interdisciplinary Journal is publishing “Check Fire in Tikrit, Iraq” in its Spring 2016 issue.
MATC student Amanda Scott presented “Sense and Sexuality: Using Creative Nonfiction Flash to Examine Memory, Trauma, and Identity” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) conference, which recently took place in Seattle. She will present “Reconciling Hybridity: Towards a More Inclusive Understanding of Biracial Identity in Technical Communication” at the Association for Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, to be held April 6 in Houston.
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