Cecily Parks’ essay, “On Rewilding,” appears in the latest issue of Boston Review: http://bostonreview.net/poetry/cecily-parks-rewilding#.WzZZJrUXX24.facebook.
Small Fires Press (New Orleans) published a limited-edition broadside of Steve Wilson’s poem “Moksha” in July. His poetry appears in the new anthology, Last Call: The Anthology of Beer, Wine & Spirits Poetry, as well as in the 2019 Texas Poetry Calendar. His latest collection, Lose to Find, was published this summer.
Susan Morrison has been invited to participate in an exploratory seminar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The seminar is entitled “Close Encounters of the Fecal Kind” (August 23 & 24).
The special issue of Feminist Media Histories on comics that Kate McClancy guest-edited has come out, and includes an introduction from her as well as her article “Desperate Housewives: Murdering Gendered Nostalgia in Lady Killer.”
Leah Schwebel’s “The Pagan Suicides: Augustine and Inferno 13” appears in the latest issue of Medium Aevum.
Kathryn Ledbetter’s article, “The Life and Death of the Cuckoo” appears in the Summer 2018 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. She also presented a paper titled “Edmund Yates and ‘What the World Says’: ‘Garnering the On Dits of the Day’” at the international conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, held in Victoria, British Columbia in July.
Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media, a collection of essays edited by Octavio Pimentel and Cruz Medina, was published in July by Computers & Composition Digital Press.
December 2010 graduate Christian Wallace’s profile of Myrtis Dightman, “The Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” was the cover story of the July issue of Texas Monthly. It’s his first cover for the magazine and has been picked up by Longform and Longreads.
Dr. Prosper Begedou, who teaches at the University of Lome (Togo) and recently spent a year in the Department as a Fulbright Scholar working with Elvin Holt and Steve Wilson, wrote to express his university’s gratitude for a second shipment of books collected by several groups in the English Department: “Through this email, I would like to express, once again my gratitude for the second batch of books donated to the University of Lome. Today, the Director of the main library of the university (Dr. Komla M. Avono) received the books. Please extend our heartfelt thanks to Texas State University, the English Department and Sigma Tau Delta for their generosity. The University of Lome would love to see, one day, a faculty member from Texas State University here for some days to share their expertise with us. The students from the University of Lome, and especially those of the English Department, will take advantage of these books and their knowledge of American and British literature will be enhanced.
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