Month: February 2021

MISCELLANY – FEBRUARY 19, 2021

John Blair’s short story “Tickling the Dragon’s Tail” has been named the most recent winner of Big Sky, Small Prose Prize by the University of Montana’s literary magazine, Cutbank. The judge, Daryl Scroggins, wrote, “This is a brilliant work, perfectly orchestrated in its language and themes. I thank you for making it a finalist and giving me the chance to help in pressing it forward.”

Kathleen Peirce’s new collection of poems Lion’s Paw was released February 2nd from Miami University Press. A starred review in Publishers Weekly (www.publishersweekly.com/9781881163688 ) and a feature on the Poetry Society of America’s “In Their Own Words” site (https://poetrysociety.org/features/in-their-own-words/kathleen-peirce-on-this-way ) followed.

Whitney May’s chapter “Topophilic Perversions: Spectral Blackface and Fetishizing Sites of Monstrosity in American Dark Tourism” has been published in Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters (Rowman & Littlefield), edited by Natasha L. Mikles and Joseph P. Laycock.

Susan Morrison’s poem “Cathedral” was published in Taj Mahal Review.

Steph Grossman’s short story “Girl in the Forest of Fear” was a finalist for the 2020 CRAFT Elements Contest: Conflict. You can read the short story and an introduction by the editors in CRAFT Literary: https://www.craftliterary.com/2021/02/12/girl-forest-of-fear-steph-grossman/

MATC graduate Meghalee Das was selected as one of ten first-time presenter recipients of the 2021 Scholars for the Dream Travel Awards by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her article “Key Takeaways and Trends in Remote UX Research” appears in the latest issue of Intercom.

MFA Poetry student Anthony Bradley’s essay “The Alien Horror of Gregg Araki’s NOWHERE” was recently published in Certified Forgotten. You can read the essay here: https://certifiedforgotten.com/gregg-araki-nowhere/

MISCELLANY – FEBRUARY 01, 2021

Cecily Parks’s poem “December” was selected by Tracy K. Smith for Best American Poetry 2021, which will be published by Scribner later this year.

Susan Signe Morrison has had the following two articles published:

“Consent and Lemman in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale” in Notes & Queries. https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjaa187/6090160  and “The Body: Unstable, Gendered, Theorized” in A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages edited by Martha Bayless.

Ben Reed’s short story “The Interpretation of Dreams” has been published in The Adroit Journal. You can read the story here: https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty-six/ben-reed-prose/

Anne Winchell’s chapter “Storytelling in Video Games” will appear in Teaching the Game: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Game Course Syllabi to be released in 2021.

Nancy Wilson and Connor Wilson were granted a $5,000 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Online Educational Resources (OER) Course Development and Implementation Grant. Working with the Office of Distance Education, they will develop an English 1320 that uses OER resources, thereby eliminating textbook costs to the students. Once crafted, this course will serve as a model for other zero-textbook-cost writing courses.

MARC students presented at the 2020 CCCC Regional Conference at USC in December, which was held virtually. Hannah McKeating presented “The Lady’s Rhetoric Cookbook as a Model of Cultural Collaboration,” Elisa Serrano presented “The Multilingual Writing Classroom: Proposal for a New Introductory Writing Course,” and Lindsey Villalpando presented “Comunidad en la Frontera: Building Writing Communities through Pedagogy in U.S./Mexico Border Cities.”

The MA Literature Program congratulates Tyler Rhea (Area Exam Director Susan Morrison) and Brendan Dewell (Area Exam Director Geneva Gano), both of whom graduated in December 2020. The program welcomed 7 new MA Literature students this spring: Emily Adams, Jason Eisenmenger, Anna Elliott, Bryce Jeter, Kaylee Keeton, Animate Mazurek, and Charlotte Schmowski.