Laura Ellis-Lai has received a Texas State University Award for Excellence in Online Teaching for her summer 2020 Technical Writing course. Dr. Ellis-Lai will present “Student Engagement in a Time of Corona” at the 8th annual showcase of award winners on Tuesday, February 23, 2021. To attend this Zoom event, please RSVP at https://signup.txstate.edu/topics/1579-8th-annual-award-for-excellence-in-online-teaching-virtual-showcase
On December 23, Indolent Books published two of Steve Wilson’s poems — “Safety” and “On Uncertainty” — as part of their online feature, “Transition: Poems in the Afterglow,” which focuses on the period between the last election and the upcoming inauguration. The poems can be read here: https://www.indolentbooks.com/transition-poems-in-the-afterglow-12-23-20-steve-wilson/
Rob Tally’s article-length chapter, “Fredric Jameson (1934-),” appears in The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism, edited by Alex Callinicos, Stathis Kouvelakis, Lucia Pradella (Routledge 2021).
Cecily Parks’ poems “A Private Well” and “Collected Typos” are featured in the latest issue of Poetry Northwest. https://www.poetrynw.org/winter-spring-2021/
Eric Leake’s essay “Implosions and Nostalgia in Las Vegas” was published in Intraspection: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Style. The essay can be read here: https://sites.google.com/murraystate.edu/intraspection/home/all-issues/issue-3-2020/implosions-and-nostalgia
MATC graduates Samantha Casertano, Meghalee Das, John (Jack) McClellan, and Jenna Mount will present findings from research conducted in the program’s Editing the Professional Publication course at the 9th International Conference on Technical Communication. The presentation is titled, “Examining the Value of Technical Communication Graduate Degrees in Non-Academic Professions.” The virtual conference will be held on January 29th and hosted by Clillac-Arp Research Laboratory and Paris Diderot University.
MFA graduate Rob Madole has published a review of Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies in Ploughshares. https://blog.pshares.org/
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