Congratulations!
Lecturer Amanda Scott was awarded the Best US 1100 Instructor/Peer Mentor Duo Award by Texas State’s PACE Mentoring program. Her creative nonfiction piece, “Me Matas, Te Mato,” is also forthcoming in The Common.
Professor Steve Wilson‘s fourth collection of poetry, Lose to Find, will be published in 2018.
Lecturer Ashton Kamburoff’s essay “What Was Carried: Luck, Talismans, and Charms in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried,” was accepted for the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature conference at Michigan State University in May.
Professor Kitty Ledbetter was awarded a Research Enhancement Program grant for her project, “Edmund Hodgson Yates: A Flâneur in Victorian Print Culture.” She will be conducting research in Los Angeles and Brisbane, Australia this summer for a book project about British Victorian journalist Yates, who is credited for popularizing celebrity journalism.
Professor Rob Tally survived the blizzard of the MLA in New York, where he organized and chaired a round table session on “Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism at 25,” on behalf the Forum on Literary Criticism (of which Tally currently serves as chair of the executive committee). He also delivered a presentation titled “[S]he was everywhere; not ‘here, here, here’: Point of View and Cognitive Mapping in Mrs. Dalloway” as part of a panel devoted to “Woolf’s Spaces,” sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society.
A poem by Assistant Professor Cecily Parks, “Texas Natives,” appears in the most recent issue of Harvard Review. http://www.harvardreview.org/q=authors/cecily-parks
Lecturer Heather Lefebvre will be reading her short story, “We Welcome All Sorts,” at the Far West Pop Culture Association conference in Las Vegas in February.
Senior Lecturer Flore Chevaillier was awarded an Outreach Lecturing Fund to bring Fulbright Scholar Guojing Yang (from China) to our campus in April. He will make presentations in her class and in Honors classes on W. H. Auden’s work in relation to the poet¹s trip to China in 1938.
Assistant Professor Eric Leake’s chapter “Empathy as Research Methodology” has been published in the Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences by Springer.
Coming Soon:
Please be sure to welcome nine candidates who will be in the English Department during the next three weeks. They are interviewing for faculty positions in Chicano/Chicanx, Literature (Chair, Vicki Smith), British Literature of the Long 18th Century (Chair, Kitty Ledbetter), and British Literature of the 20th/21st Centuries (Chair, Rob Tally). Hiring committees very much appreciate your input. Please share your impressions with the committee chairs. Take advantage of opportunities to get acquainted with the candidates, observe their teaching, and learn about their research.
Filming for the English Department’s promotional video will begin sometime in February. The Video Committee has been busy making plans since September, and we look forward to an attractive, interesting representation of the Texas State English Department by April.
The deadline for applications for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards is Monday, February 12, at 5 pm.
The deadline for the 2018 issue of the student magazine, Persona, is also February 12. The 2017 issue is currently in the works and will be released soon. Persona has expanded its offerings beyond literature to include submissions of artwork, such as paintings and drawings, screenplays, or even a comic style work. If you have any questions, contact personatexasstate@gmail.com visit their website (personalitmag.com) or Facebook page.
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:
http://www.english.txstate.edu/studentres/scholarships.htm