Congratulations:
MFA fiction graduate and Senior Lecturer Eric Blankenburg’s “The Devil Doesn’t Care: Choice and Chance in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men” was accepted for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, to be held February 2017 in Albuquerque, NM. The paper was written as part of Mark Busby’s graduate seminar on Cormac McCarthy.
Rebecca Bell-Metereau’s “An Actor’s Director: Kubrick and Star Performances” appears in Critical Insights: Stanley Kubrick, published by Salem Press (2016).
Rob Tally’s essay “Tolkien’s Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings” appears in Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Also recently published is “‘A Utopia of the In-Between,’ or, Limning the Liminal,” Rob’s foreword to Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place, published this year by London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
Katie Kapurch, Jon Marc Smith and Suparno Banerjee have received Texas State Research Enhancement Program grants for 2017.
Aimee Roundtree was named an Alphi Chi Favorite Professor for Fall 2016.
Last spring and summer, Doug Dorst worked on the writing staff of the new TV show, Z: The Beginning of Everything, a half-hour drama starring Christina Ricci as Zelda Fitzgerald. Amazon Prime will release all ten episodes of the first season simultaneously on January 27. Doug received Writers’ Guild credit for Episode 7 (“Where There Are Friends, There Are Riches”). A trailer for the show can be seen here, along with an early version of the pilot episode: https://www.amazon.com/Z-The-Beginning-of-Everything/dp/B017APVGL4 [archived].
MFA fiction alumna Christine Granados’s second short story collection, Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children, will be published in March and was reviewed recently in Kirkus Reviews: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christine-granados/fight-like-a-man-and-other-stories-we-tell-our-chi/ [archived].