Congratulations:
Leah Schwebel co-edited and contributed to a special issue of The Chaucer Review on “The Legend of Good Women”: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/645816/pdf. Leah’s article is entitled “Livy and Augustine as Negative Models in The Legend of Lucrece”; she also co-wrote the Introduction, “Looking Forward, Looking Back on the Legend of Good Women.” This past fall, Leah was recognized as an Alpha Chi favorite professor.
Flore Chevaillier presented “Machine, Body, and Text in Eduardo Kac’s Non-human Poetry” at the 2017 MLA meeting in Philadelphia this January.
MFA fiction student Graham Oliver has been rehired for 2017 as a Ploughshares blogger. Last year he interviewed translators for the site, and you can read his end-of-the-year round-up at this link: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/lessons-from-a-year-in-translation/. His 2017 series will focus on newly released books with rural settings; his first entry looked at prize-winning novels from 2016: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/past-the-city-limit-sign-the-role-of-rural-in-2016-books/.
Cecily Parks has three poems in the latest issue of Terrain.org: http://www.terrain.org/2017/poetry/cecily-parks/.
Alan Schaefer served as guest editor of the fall 2016 issue of Southwestern American Literature. The issue focuses on writing about and by musicians of the Southwest: http://www.txstate.edu/cssw/publications/sal.html.
Aimee Kendall Roundtree won a teaching grant along with Dr. Hunter Close (Physics), Dr. Kristina Collins (Education), Dr. Grayson Lawrence (Art and Design), and Dr. Ziliang Zong (Computer Science). She will serve as Project Director on “Coding Across the Disciplines,” a $100K project to teach computer programming skills to middle and high school teachers from all disciplines. The project was funded by WeTeach_CS, a program of The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for STEM Education.
Gabriella Corales – who graduated with a degree in English a few years ago, received a Rockefeller Fellowship and then completed her Masters degree at Stanford – currently teaches at the Impact Academy in California. She recently published an essay on her experiences in Education Week Teacher: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2016/10/response_fear_should_not_stop_us_from_exploring_controversial_topics_in_school.html.
“In Summer 2017 the College of Liberal Arts will present a bilingual adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Performances will be August 3 – 10 in Centennial Hall G02 on the Texas State Campus. Professional actors from Austin will collaborate with Texas State Spanish and Theatre majors to present this adaptation to the public. This production is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Rob Tally’s essay “The Novel and the Map: Spatiotemporal Form and Discourse in Literary Cartography” appears in Space, Time, and the Limits of Human Understanding, edited by Shyam Wuppuluri and Giancarlo Ghiradri (Springer 2017).