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Congratuations!
Laura Ellis-Lai received her Ph.D this May at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Her dissertation title is “Close Confidences: Students’ Experiences of Relational Pleasure, Reflective Competence, and Self-Authorship in FYC Research Writing.” Her dissertation includes a series of multi-year case studies from her English 1320 and Honors FYC Research-Writing courses at Texas State University.
Robert T. Tally’s article, “An Anagogical Education,” appears in the current issue of the American Book Review 38.3 (March/April 2017): 6-7. The article is based on a talk he gave to a Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society meeting last fall.
Rob has another piece of good news this month. His article, “In the File Drawer Labeled ‘Science Fiction’: Genre after the Age of the Novel,” appears in the latest issue of The Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol.63, No.2 (2017): 201-217.
Rebecca Bell-Metereau presented a paper titled “Switching Genders, or Whom Do We Really Love?” at the French American Studies Association (AFEA) conference on the Pursuit of Happiness in Strasbourg, France, in May.
Texas State MFA graduate Luisa Muradyan Tannahill has won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for her manuscript, “American Radiance,” chosen by guest-judges Shara McCallum and Hilda Raz with Editor-in-Chief Kwame Dawes. Tannahill is originally from Odessa, Ukraine, and is currently a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Houston. Luisa currently serves as the editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. She was the recipient of the 2016 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Her work appears in Poetry International, West Branch, Ninth Letter, the Los Angeles Review, Rattle, and the Paris-American, among other journals.
Susan Hanson‘s photo “Texas Wild Rice” was recently chosen as the Grand Prize Winner in the Texas Hill Country Alliance’s 2017 Hill Country Photo Contest. This photo will be featured in the 2018 Texas Hill Country Calendar. Susan also has had two photos accepted for the Texas Photographic Society’s 30th Annual Members’ Only Show, juried by Malcolm Daniel, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and four selected as finalists in the Hill Country Photography Club’s 13th annual Naturescapes Contest & Exhibition, which will open Sept. 9. Earlier this summer, Susan presented “Finding Balance in a Solo Canoe” at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference at Wayne State University in Detroit.