Month: October 2020

Rob Tally’s essay “Boundless Mystification” appears in South Atlantic Quarterly in a special issue devoted to Ideology. https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article-abstract/119/4/779/166841/Boundless-Mystification?redirectedFrom=fulltext

His new edited book, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination, has just been published by Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Spatial-Literary-Studies-Interdisciplinary-Approaches-to-Space-Geography/Jr/p/book/9780367520106

Vanessa Couto Johnson’s two poems (“aw|ry” and “habi|tit|tat”) appear in the current issue of Everything in Aspic. https://everythinginaspic.com/issues

Allan Chavkin’s entry “Saul Bellow” was published in Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. www.oxfordbibliographies.com

MFA Poetry student Bianca Perez’s poetry series “The Good Fruit” was awarded Honorable Mention in Poetry in the 2021 San Miguel Writers’ Contest. See announcement here: https://sanmiguelwritersconference.org/2021-writers-contest-winners/

Geneva Gano participated in a roundtable discussion on “Teaching the History of the American West with Graphic Novels and Comics” at the annual Western History Association’s conference this month.  Her article “The Poetry of Ecological Witness: Robinson Jeffers and Camille T. Dungy” was published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article/doi/10.1093/isle/isaa088/5918080?guestAccessKey=9c785cfd-4274-43f6-ba79-f57955178bd3

Sean Rose’s story “Dancer” was published in the most recent issue of Southern Humanities Review.  http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/533-sean-rose-dancer.html

Jon Marc Smith and co-author Smith Henderson’s article “Ten American Masterpieces That Are Actually Crime Fiction” appears in CrimeReads. https://crimereads.com/ten-american-masterpieces-that-are-actually-crime-fiction/

MFA poetry student Nour Al Ghraowi’s new piece, “How I Entered a Pandemic while Healing a War’s Wounds,” was recently published in Porter House Review. https://porterhousereview.org/articles/%E2%80%AFhow-i-entered-a-pandemic-while-healing-from-a-wars-wounds/

Miriam Williams has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Technical Communication, the journal of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Technical Communicationpublishes quantitative and qualitative research and serves technical communicators in academia and industry. Her appointment begins January 2021. See STC announcement here: https://www.stc.org/notebook/2020/09/21/meet-the-new-editor-of-technical-communication/

Allan Chavkin’s “Bucharest and Chicago: A Tale of Two Cities in Saul Bellow’s The Dean’s December” is available online in Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_261-1

Susan Morrison was interviewed for “What Did People Use Before Toilet Paper Was Invented?” in Life’s Little Mysteries series for Live Science. (Sept 20, 2020). https://www.livescience.com/toilet-paper-history.html

Rob Talley presented a keynote address titled, “The Logic of the Situation,” at the Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts conference. The virtual conference was jointly sponsored by the Chronotopic Cartographies project of Lancaster University and the British Library in London.

In an essay in Rogue Women Writers, Jon Marc Smith and co-author Smith Henderson discuss the process of creating the protagonist for their novel, Make Them Cry. https://www.roguewomenwriters.com/2020/09/smith-henderson-and-jon-marc-smith-go.html

MATC graduate Gayle Davidson has accepted a Usability Experience (UX) Writer position at Thomson Reuters in Austin, Texas.

MFA fiction student Ben McCormick’s new piece,“White Hugs: On Waiting for a Lisa Murkowski Vote,” was published in Entropy.

https://entropymag.org/white-hugs-on-waiting-for-a-lisa-murkowski-vote/