This summer, Flore Chevaillier presented “Time, Body, and Narrative in Bhanu Kapil’s work” at the European Conference on Arts & Humanities in Brighton, England; and “The Scarred Body of the Text: Storytelling and Experiment in Bhanu Kapil’s work” at the Progressive Connections Conference on “Storytelling & the Body” in Verona, Italy.
MFA fiction student Ryan Lopez’s short story “Back Then” has been accepted for publication in Obra, a literary journal from the MFA of the Americas. This month, he’ll present “Castles in the Air: The Victorian Princess and the Rescuing Imagination” at the Victorian Popular Fiction Association Study Day: The Threatened Child in Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction and Culture, taking place in Dublin this September; and “Faith Like a Child: Imagination in MacDonald, Burnett, and Montgomery” at The Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, to be held at University of Dallas.
MARC student Sarah Piercy will present “Generation Z Speaks: Conversations with First-Year Writing Students” at CCCC in Milwaukee next March; and “Across the Generations: Studying First-Year Writing and Identity” at TYCA-SW (Two-Year College Association-Southwest), taking place in Conroe this coming October.
Miriam Williams presented the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Kickoff Keynote to the Texas A&M University Central Texas community on September 4, 2019. The QEP is a SACS accreditation requirement to help universities improve student learning outcomes. Miriam’s talk discussed her writing experiences with regulatory and environmental agencies and made recommendations for implementing the university’s writing-focused QEP.
MFA poetry student James Trask has poems forthcoming in the next issue of The Windward Review: “Clash by Moonlight” and “This Night.” James will read at the launch party for the issue, which takes place on September 19 at the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi campus.
MFA fiction student Sandra Sidi has an essay in the latest issue of The Atlantic: “The Male Gaze on Steriods”: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/get-a-weapon/596677/
Lecturer and MFA poetry graduate Vanessa Couto Johnson was in Las Vegas from September 6-7 to read from her latest poetry book Pungent dins concentric at Nevada Humanities’ Poetry Matters! reading series and to lead a poetry workshop focused on the prose poem form at the Winchester Dondero Cultural Center.
The personal essay, “Stable,” by MFA fiction student Mary-Pat Buss-Hayton was just published in the print edition of the literary magazine Inverted Syntax.
Aimee Roundtree published “A Qualitative Approach Towards Understanding HIV-Related Stress in Texas” in Texas Medicine; the study based upon quantitative research was written with several colleagues and a Texas State graduate student from the Psychology program on whose thesis committee she served: https://www.texmed.org/Aug19Journal/
Naomi Shihab Nye will be selecting and introducing poems for The New York Times Magazine for this year. It’s a prestigious position that rotates annually. She started in August 2019 and will be in the position until Aug 2020.
MARC graduate Faith Williams has been promoted to Assistant Professor of English at Tulsa (OK) Community College.
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