Congratulations:
Paul and Robin Cohen gave an invited talk on Shakespeare and Postmodernism for Philosophy Department students and faculty.
Three English Department faculty members presented at the 35th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience (FYE), held in Orlando, Florida in mid-February: Dr. Nancy Wilson, Director of Lower-Division Studies; MARC graduate student and teaching assistant Edward Garza; and Twister Marquiss, Director of Texas State’s Common Reading Program. The presentation, entitled “From Common Reading to a Common Experience: Fostering a Campus-wide Conversation,” recounted the success of the 2015-2016 Common Reading book — Tomás Rivera’s …y no se lo tragó la tierra / …And the Earth Did not Devour Him — including the book’s use for the diagnostic essay in English 1310 classes.
MA Literature student Thais Rutledge presented “Displacing Septimus: Spatial Narrative and the Medical Gaze in Mrs. Dalloway” at the Louisville meeting of the International Virginia Woolf Society.
In Story Circle Book Reviews, Susan Wittig Albert reviews Susan Morrison’s book, A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2016): “A Medieval Woman’s Companion is—I’m not exaggerating here—the best introduction I know of to the widely varied lives of medieval women.” Read the complete review here: http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/medievalwoman.shtml. Susan guest-blogged for medieval mystery writer Candace Robb, on “A Medieval Woman’s Companion as Inspiration for Novelists”: https://ecampion.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/a-medieval-womans-companion-as-inspiration-for-novelists/. Finally, Susan was interviewed by Madeline Barnes on Waste Studies and medieval liminality. Barnes, who was Outstanding Senior in English 2014, is currently a Masters student in Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. You can see the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS70Vrf1PX8.
Recent MFA fiction graduate Sarah Rafael Garcia had a story, “Selling Happiness,” published in Lumen: http://www.lumenmag.net/sarah-rafael-garcia-03. An interview regarding her work with the writing program she founded, Barrio Writers, appears in The Fem: https://thefemlitmagazine.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/featured-fem-meet-sarah-rafael-garcia/.
Eric Leake’s co-authored chapter “Composing Place, Composing Las Vegas” has been published in the collection Rhetorics of Names and Naming, part of the Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Composition series. His article “Empathizer-in-Chief: The Promotion and Performance of Empathy in the Speeches of Barack Obama” has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric: http://contemporaryrhetoric.com/.
Michael Noll’s story, “The Tank Yard,” has been selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2016. It first appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
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