Suparno Banerjee’s book Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybriditywas recently published by University of Wales Press. His review of Glyn Morgan and C. Palmer-Patel’sSideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction(2019), “Examining Alternate Histories,” appears in Science Fiction Studies. He also presented a paper “Indian Science Fiction and the Politics of Eutopia” at South West Conference for Asian Studies, Virtual Conference, October 23-24, 2020, which was originally scheduled to take place at Texas State University.
Geneva M. Gano presented the keynote address at the Brandeis Novel Symposium on Willa Cather’s 1925 novel, The Professor’s House. Her talk was titled, “Adventurers in the Land of Enchantment: Ashtrays, Old Pots, and ‘Something Else.’”
Jon Marc Smith was recently interviewed about his novel Make Them Cry, co-written with Smith Henderson. The interview appears in The Big Thrill: https://www.thebigthrill.org/2020/10/debut-spotlight-smith-henderson-and-jon-marc-smith/
Susan Morrison’s article, “Slow Practice as Ethical Aesthetics: The Ecocritical Strategy of Patience in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale,” has just appeared in the Special Issue: 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond; 10th Year Anniversary Issue. Ecozon@ (2020): https://ecozona.eu/article/view/3453
Eric Leake’s co-authored chapter “The Stylized Portrayal of the Writing Life in Spike Jonze’s Her” was published in Style and the Future of Composition Studies (Utah State University Press).
M.A. Literature graduate Sirsha Nandi presented “Beyond Binary: Violence of the Spaces in between in Arundhati Roy‘s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” at South West Conference for Asian Studies. Sirsha is pursuing a PhD in English at Texas A&M.
Recent English graduate Anika Adams accepted a virtual editorial internship position with Harlequin Enterprises publishing company, a division of Harper Collins. Out of 1,745 applicants, six interns were selected. Anika was one of the two applicants selected from the United States.