Kate McClancy’s “The Wasteland of the Real: Nostalgia and Simulacra in Fallout” came out in the September issue of Game Studies, and she presented “Fighting a Lonely War: Frank Castle and the Domestication of Vietnam” at the meeting of the Popular Culture Association of the South.
Marilynn Olson presented “Billy Whiskers Bashes His Way into History: JFK’s Favorite Childhood Series Defined America for Millions” at the University of Michigan in late September.
Susan Morrison presented a paper entitled “Countering Misecogyny and Ecocatastrophe in Hawthorne: The Paradigm of Viriditas and Grace” at the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) in Würzburg, Germany (September 2018). Susan also published “Walking as Memorial Ritual: Pilgrimage to the Past” as the Featured Article for the M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture special issue on walking: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1437
Two MA Literature graduates and current Lecturers presented at the Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts on October 18-20 at the Sam Houston State University Woodlands Campus: Shannon Shaw presented “Aileen Wuornos: The Monster Man Created”; and Whitney May presented “Pennywise and Pound Foolish: Scary Clowns and the Monstrous Marketplace.”
Octavio Pimentel’s article “Counter Stories: Brotherhood in a Latinx Fraternity” has been published in the Fall 2018 issue of Open Words: Access and English Studies: https://www.pearsoned.com/counter-stories-brotherhood-latinx-fraternity
Current MFA fiction student Mary-Pat Hayton, has a personal essay as a finalist in “pen 2 paper – a disability-focused creative writing contest”:
https://txdisabilities.submittable.com/gallery/b3b7a89e-340b-4a3a-8881-951c6560b7ce/10961936/ This is a “judged by readers” contest, and readers (including us!) can read and vote.
On October 12th, Texas State senior English major Chisom Ogoke presented “Sekoia and the Books of the Galápagos: Storytelling Biological Anthropology through Magical Realism” at the “Faulkner and García Márquez” conference, sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University.
MFA poetry graduate Dorothy Lawrenson’s poem “Viewmaster” will be included in the anthology A Year of Scottish Poems: One Poem to Read Each Day, to be published by Macmillan Children’s Books in December 2018.
2018 MFA fiction graduate Emily Beyda has sold her first novel to Doubleday.
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