Miscellany – August 27, 2018

In July, Flore Chevaillier presented “Hemingway, Death, and Intertextuality in Carole Maso’s AVA” at the XVIII International Hemingway Conference: “Hemingway in Paris.”

Malvern Books (Austin) will host a Texas State Faculty reading with Debra Monroe, Naomi Shihab Nye and Cyrus Cassells on Sunday, September 23, at 1PM.

Amanda Scott was named the 2018 Faculty Member of the Year for University Seminar. In addition to a plaque, she receives a $1,000 stipend. This year makes the second in a row that an English faculty member has received the award.

Susan Morrison’s “Grendel’s Mother in Fascist Italy: Beowulf in a Catholic Youth Publication” appeared in International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA) 20.1 (2018).

Steve Wilson’s latest collection of poetry, Lose to Find, was published this July. His poetry also appears in Last Call: The Anthology of Beer, Wine and Spirits Poetry, as well as in a limited-edition letterpress broadside published by Small Fires Press (New Orleans). On August 21, he joined MFA poetry graduate and Lecturer Vanessa Couto Johnson and MFA poetry graduate and ACC faculty member Prudence Arceneaux on KZSM radio for a poetry reading and discussion.

Jennifer duBois has been awarded a Civitella Ranieri Writing Fellowship in the summer of 2020.

Miriam Williams’ article, “Technologies of Disenfranchisement: Literacy Tests and Black Voters in the U.S. from 1890-1965″ (with Natasha Jones of the University of Central Florida) will be published in the Society of Technical Communication’s Journal, Technical Communication, in the fall 2018 Special Issue on Election Technologies. Her essay, “#BlackLivesMatter: Tweeting a Movement in Chronos and Kairos,” is included in Octavio Pimentel and Cruz Medina’s edited collection, which was recently published by Computers & Composition Digital Press.

This fall, Trey Moody (MFA Poetry graduate, 2009; Lecturer, 2014-15) begins teaching as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English at Creighton University in Omaha, where he has been teaching for the past two years as a Resident Assistant Professor of English. He will continue teaching undergraduate courses as well as graduate courses in Creighton’s MFA program in creative writing.

Lecturer and MFA poetry graduate Vanessa Couto Johnson read at Malvern Books’ “Chap[book]s and Broad[side]s” event on August 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DOZiVaOS_E