Congratulations:
The following faculty were named “Favorite Professors” by Fall 2015 graduate student inductees to the Texas State chapter of Alpha Chi National Honor Society: Jennifer duBois, Nancy Grayson, Chad Hammett, Rebecca Jackson, Lindy Kosmitis, Jaime Mejia, Cecily Parks, Aimee Roundtree, Robert Tally, and Steve Wilson.
MA Literature student Matthew Hudson presented “Illuminators of the Multitude: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Populist Critique of the French Revolution” at the 40th annual conference for Society for Utopian Studies, held recently in Pittsburgh.
Michael Noll moderated the panel, “Jogging Memories,” at the Texas Book Festival. The panel featured Jill Alexander Essbaum and Keija Parssinen. He also moderated two panels at the Austin Film Festival: “Script-to-Screen: Saving Mr. Banks” with the film’s writer, Kelly Marcel, and director, John Lee Hancock; and “A Conversation with Chris Cooper,” featuring Cooper, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Adaptation. Both AFF panels will be turned into episodes of the PBS show On Story.
Miriam Williams has accepted an invitation to serve as guest speaker during Texas Tech University’s Ph.D. in Technical Communication & Rhetoric Program’s May Seminar, to be held May 22nd through June 4th, 2015.
MATC alumnus Dr. Travis Irby serves as Instructional Designer in Texas State University’s Office of Distance and Extended Learning. His areas of emphasis include self-paced studies and course production.
Several Texas State faculty and graduate students presented at the South Central Modern Language Association conference held in Nashville this past October: MFA fiction students Michaela Hansen, Josh Lopez and Graham Oliver; and faculty members Victoria Smith, Ross Feeler and Anne Shepherd.
One of Susan Hanson’s underwater photos, taken at Jacob’s Well in Wimberley, has been selected for an exhibition at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, Vermont. Her photograph was among 54 selected from approximately 600 entries. Judge for the event was Gary Braasch, an environmental photojournalist and writer who documents nature, environment, biodiversity, and climate change around the world.
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