Happy Thanksgiving!
Sigma Tau Delta has a book sale every first Monday and third Tuesday of the month from 9-3 in FH 108. Pick up a Sigma Tau Delta T-shirt while you’re there: a perfect stocking stuffer!
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.html
In Graduate College news, a workshop for prospective applicants for the Celebrity Classic Scholarship and/or the Graduate College Scholarship will be held on November 29 from 5-5:30. For more information: http://signup.txstate.edu/sessions/3539-grad-college-shop-talk-webinar-tips-for-graduate-college-scholarship-applications
Coming Soon!
The next Graduate Student Drop-in happens on Thursday, December 7 from 5-6:30 pm. Stop into the Graduate Office, FH 361, for coffee, tea, refreshments, and conversation before evening classes begin.
Novelist and essayist Rivka Galchen will discuss the process of editing novels and essays with Willing Davidson, an editor at the New Yorker. The event at the Katherine Anne Porter House in Kyle is at 6:30 on Friday, December 1.
Congratulations!
Professor Rebecca Bell-Metereau recently chaired a panel titled Gender Identity and Performance at the 2017 Film and History Conference in Madison, WI. The conference theme was Representing Home: The Real and Imagined Spaces of Belonging. Rebecca also delivered a paper entitled “Transparent vs. Documentary Life.”
A book by Professor Rebecca Jackson and her co-authors, Jackie Grutsch-McKinney and Nicole Caswell, has been nominated for the 2018 College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Impact Award, the 2017 International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Best Book Award, and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) 2016 Best Book Award. The book is titled The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors.
Senior Lecturer Susan Hanson recently presented the essay “Diving Jacob’s Well” at the Literature and Ecology Colloquium at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
MARC student and TA Emily Rybarski presented her paper, “Intergenerational Contact: Writing for and about our Elderly,” at the Conference on Community Writing: Engaging Networks and Ecologies recently held in Boulder, CO.
Professor Steve Wilson reports that the Study Abroad program next summer in Ireland is now full. Thanks for your participation!
In a completely different kind of study abroad, on November 8 Professor Wilson discussed the Beat Generation and Jack Kerouac via Skype with an “American Novel of the 20th Century” class at the American University of Kuwait.
Lecturer Daniel Keltner recently published an article on a blog site about “5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Selling a First Book.” Here’s his take on the topic: http://blog.janicehardy.com/2017/10/5-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-selling.htm
Lecturer Stephen Harmon’s painting, Red Smeared, has been accepted for the upcoming “Small Works” exhibit at the Limner Gallery at 123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. The show will run from December 1-30. Works from this show, including his piece, can be seen here: http://www.slowart.com/limner/current/upcoming.htm. Stephen’s paintings, Yellow Abstraction and White and Pink on Brown, were finalists in Fusion Art’s 3rd Annual Colorful Abstractions International Online Juried Art Exhibition. The show is for November 2017. Works from the show, including his pieces, can be seen here: https://fusionartps.com/3rd-annual-colorful-abstractions-art-exhibition-2017/.
A poem by Assistant Professor Cecily Parks titled “Harvest” will appear in the December issue of The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/145450/harvest
Alumni News
MATC alumna Kim Jeske was recently promoted from Senior Technical Writer to Group Manager at National Instruments in Austin, Texas. Her team is responsible for documenting the Semiconductor Test System (STS). In August, she celebrated five years at National Instruments.
Former English major and 2013 Texas State graduate Brandon Caro is featured in a recent issue of the University Star.
MATC alumna Marcia Garnet was recently promoted to Senior Technical Writer at Polycom, Inc. in Austin, Texas. Marcia writes user, administrator, developer, deployment, and installation documentation for Polycom audio, video, and solution products.