Congratulations!
Associate Professor Graeme Wend-Walker’s article “‘Thinking Eases the Pain’: Lois Lowry’s Son and the Giver Quartet’s Resistance to Secular Puritanism” appears in the current issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly.
Assistant Professor Kate McClancy’s article “Winter Soldiers and Sunshine Patriots: World War II and the Cold War in Captain America” just came out in ImageTexT. She is also organizing the Comics Arts Conference spring meeting, where she will be featuring a panel from four Texas State grad students and recent grads: Andrew Barton, Michael Gonzales, Sean Mardell, and Lillian Martinez.
Professor Mark Busby’s novel Fort Benning Blues was featured on the Huffington Post in an article titled “24 Books That Will Help You Understand America” by Claire Fallon. Also featured were William Faulkner’s Light in August, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Annie Proulx’s Close Range, and Philipp Meyer’s American Rust in this “literary road trip through the nation’s heartland.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-literary-road-trip-through-america_us_59948091e4b0d0d2cc839bc3?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
Former lecturer and MFA graduate Ram Hinojosa’s short story “Day is Done” will be published in the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Salamander magazine.
Teaching Assistant Sean Rachel Mardell is presenting a paper, “The Liminality and Whiteness of Frank Castle in The Punisher (2014)” at the Comic Arts Conference held at WonderCon in Anaheim, CA on March 23rd.
Professor Robert T. Tally’s essay, “In the Deserts of Cartography: Building, Mapping, Dwelling” appears in The Map and the Territory: Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought, and Reality, edited by Shyam Wuppuluri and Francisco Antonio Doria (Springer, 2018).
Professor Steve Wilson’s latest book of poetry, Lose to Find, is now available for pre-order from Finishing Line press, https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/lose-to-find-by-steve-wilson/
Events
On Thursday, March 1 at 7 pm, MFA alum Michael Noll will be launching his fantastic new book, The Writer’s Field Guide, and discussing the project with Bret Anthony Johnston at BookPeople in Austin. As BookPeople puts it, the book, “offers a refreshing approach to the craft of fiction writing. It takes a single page from forty contemporary novels and short stories, identifies techniques used by the writers, and presents approachable exercises and prompts that allow anyone to put those techniques to immediate use in their own work. Encompassing everything from micro (how to “write pretty”) to macro (how to “move through time space”), and even how to put all together on page one, this is a field guide for anyone who wants to start writing now.” Noll will sign copies after the discussion. BookPeople is located at 603 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78703.
Assistant Professor Katie Kapurch is the faculty sponsor for a multimedia talk from Dr. Walter Everett (Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan) titled “High Art Born of Deep Crisis: The Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever.” The event is sponsored by the Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series, College of Liberal Arts, College of Fine Arts and Communication, the Department of English, the Department of History, the School of Music, and the Center for Texas Music History.
The English Department Graduate Office will hold a coffee and snacks drop-in for graduate students and faculty from 5-6:30 pm on Wednesday March 7 and Thursday March 24.
Fulbright Scholar Dr. Geetanjali Joshi (India) will present “Allen Ginsberg and Hinduism” on March 26 from 3:30-4:50 at the Alkek Teaching Theater. Dr. Joshi is currently a Fulbright Scholar at Portland State University. To reserve a seat, please contact Steve Wilson at sw13@txstate.edu. Space is limited. RSVP by March 24. This presentation is conducted through the Fulbright Scholar Program’s Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF)). OLF enables Visiting Scholars to share their research interests, speak about their home country, and exchange ideas with U.S. students, faculty, and community organizations. Through these lectures, universities forge relationships with the Fulbright Scholar Program, Visiting Scholars, and the Visiting Scholar’s home and host institutions. Other activities for Dr. Joshi will include presentations on the Beats and Hinduism in Professor Steve Wilson’s undergraduate class on Women and the Beat Generation and on Allen Ginsberg and Hinduism for Drs. John Blair and Kate McClancy’s “Masterpieces of American Literature to 1865” classes.