Congratulations:
At the Fall 2016 College of Liberal Arts Convocation, the following English Department faculty received awards: Stephanie Noll and Steve Wilson received Golden Apple and Presidential Distinction Awards for Teaching, Paul Cohen received a Presidential Distinction Award for Service, Katie Kapurch received a College Achievement Award for Scholarly / Creative Activity, and Chad Hammett received a College Achievement Award for Service.
Chad Hammett’s book 2 Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark will be released by UT Press in a new paperback edition in the spring of 2017.
MFA fiction graduate Melissa Henderson (formerly Melissa Stephenson) has sold her memoir, Driven, to Harcourt.
“A String Between Two Tin Cans,” an essay by recent MFA fiction graduate Samantha Tanner, appears in the latest issue of Electric Lit: https://electricliterature.com/a-string-between-two-tin-cans-741d165d9ba7#.uivs54wkk.
MFA Fiction student Allison Grace Myers’ essay “Perfume Poured Out” was published in the summer issue of Image: https://imagejournal.org/article/perfume-poured-out/.
MATC student Rachel Berryhill will present “Sex Symbols and Subject Matter Experts: The Role of Females in a Military Comic Book” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s 38th Annual Conference, held February 15-18 2017 in Albuquerque, NM. In this presentation Rachel will describe the changing representations of civilian and soldier females in comic books.
Kitty Ledbetter presented a paper titled “‘Gnat-like Swarms of Aborigines’: King Arthur, Paddy, and Other Unknown Places in Dinah Mulock Craik’s Travel Narratives” at the annual conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in early September.
Eric Leake’s essay “The Promise and Practice of Cosmopolitan Empathy” appears in Countertransference in Perspective, published by Sussex Academic Press. His article “Writing Pedagogies of Empathy: As Rhetoric and Disposition” appears in the latest issue of Composition Forum: http://compositionforum.com/issue/34/.
Shannon Perri (MFA fiction) will present “The Battle of Gender Norms, Violence, and Social Conscience: A Close Look at Form in ‘The Girl on the Plane’ by Mary Gaitskill” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico next February. The paper was written for Debra Monroe’s Form and Theory of Fiction class.
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