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The next Graduate Student Drop-in happens on Thursday, December 7 from 5-6:30 pm. Stop into the Graduate Office, FH 361, for coffee, tea, refreshments, and conversation before evening classes begin.
The English Department’s annual holiday party begins at 11 am on Thursday, December 7. Bring a dish and join us!
Faculty are asked to encourage their students to apply for English Department scholarships. Qualifications, types of scholarships, and an application form are available on the English Department Web site at the “Student Resources” link. The deadline is March 1, 2018.
Congratulations!
Assistant Professor Jennifer duBois was awarded a FY 2018 Creative Writing Fellowship for $25,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts: https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/FY18-Creative-Writing-Fellowship-Recipients-Nov16-2017.pdf
Lecturer Whitney May’s article, “The Influence of Place on Identity in Poe’s ‘Morella’ and ‘William Wilson’” appears in the autumn edition of The Edgar Allan Poe Review, the official organ of the Poe Studies Association. Publication in this journal is very competitive; our colleague and prolific scholar Rob Tally admits that even he has been rejected and assures us that Whitney’s article publication is a “terrific accomplishment, especially for someone without a PhD.”
An interview of Professor Debra Monroe appears in the December issue of the leading publication for creative writers, The Writer’s Chronicle. Debra discusses her career as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as her frequent individual interactions with student writers in the Texas State MFA program and her mentoring of their careers long after they complete their degrees.
A book by Professor Rebecca Jackson and her co-authors, Jackie Grutsch-McKinney and Nicole Caswell, won the 2017 International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Best Book Award. The book is titled The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors.
Professor Susan Morrison was interviewed by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Austin.
Texas State alumna Dorothy Lawrenson writes from Edinburgh to tell us that her paper, written for Susan Morrison’s Beowulf class, has been accepted for the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. The paper is titled “What does Hrothgar ‘Read’ on the Giants’ Sword-Hilt?”
Professor Cyrus Cassells has been nominated as one of the Alpha Chi’s Favorite Professors for 2017.
Lecturer Ashton Kamburoff’s poem “Revising the Hexes” was selected by Kaveh Akbar as a finalist for the 2017 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Prize. It will appear in the print edition of the journal in February, 2018. His poem “How to Eat a Lemon” is forthcoming in Vinyl Poetry.
Professor Robert T. Tally, Jr. recently published a brief, peer-reviewed article, “Fredric Jameson and the Controversy over ‘Third-World Literature in the Age of Multinational Capitalism,’” in Global South Studies, a digital scholarship project affiliated with the journal The Global South. Dr. Tally also recently published two book reviews. His “Periodizing Utopia,” a review of Phillip E. Wegner’s Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays in Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia, appears in Extrapolation 57.3 (2017), and his review of Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Moaz Azaryahu’s Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet, appears in Poetics Today 37.4 (2017).
Instructor Stephen Harmon’s painting, No Name #1, has been accepted into the Small Wonders exhibition at the Maryland Federation of Art’s Circle Gallery in Annapolis, MD.