Susan Morrison was recently honored by Texas State University with the title of University Distinguished Professor. This award honors individuals whose performance in teaching, research, and service have been exemplary and recognized at the state, national, and international levels. Dr. Morrison will retain the title for the duration of her service at Texas State. Dr. Morrison has also been nominated for consideration by the Texas State University System (TSUS) Board of Regents for the Regents’ Professor Award.
Susan Morrison’s article, “Insistent, Persistent, Resilient: The Negative Poetics of Patient Griselda,” has just appeared in Medieval Feminist Forum.
Katie Kapurch’s chapter, “The Beatles, Gender, and Sexuality: I Am He as You Are He as You Are Me,” is included in the edited collection, Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You’ve Known for All These Years, published by Oxford University Press (2021). For book details, see https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fandom-and-the-beatles-9780190917869?cc=us&lang=en&
Eric Leake’s chapter, “The Multiple Lives of News Stories: Civic Literacies and Rhetorical Transformations,” has been published in the freely available collection Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation by New City Community Press.
Whitney S. May’s article, “‘Powers of Their Own Which Mere “Modernity” Cannot Kill’: The Doppelgänger and Temporal Modernist Terror in Dracula,” has been published in the latest issue of Gothic Studies.
MARC student Elisa Serrano has been accepted into Penn State University’s PhD program in Curriculum and Instruction and awarded a research assistantship.
MARC student Delaina Bailey has been accepted into Texas Tech University’s PhD program in Technical Communication and Rhetoric.
A German translation of Texas State MFA student Caleb Ozovehe Ajinomoh’s short story “Rites Evasion Maneuvers” appears as “Grieving for Advanced Learners” in the newest issue of Literaturbote. The English version was a finalist for last year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
MARC graduate Manny Pina has successfully defended his dissertation in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University and has been hired as a tenure-track assistant professor at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi.
MARC student Sarah Rose Rosenbaum presented her paper “The Subversive Power of Shapeshifting: Trickster Ecofeminist Rhetorics” as part of the “Embodied, Material Texts” panel at the NeMLA conference.
Three poems by MFA student James Trask appear in the Windward Review and are available here: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65332093/windward-review
Texas State was represented at the 42nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts – held virtually this year from March 18 to 21 – by Suparno Banerjee (“Disaster and the Environment in 20th Century Indian Science Fiction”), Andrew Barton (“If You’re Not Scared of Death, How Can You Value Life?: Bridge Babies, Timefall Rain, and Eco-Horror in Death Stranding“), and Graeme Wend-Walker (“Children of the Night in a Sunburnt Country: Australian Vampires on Film”). Graeme Wend-Walker also read his short story, “Bangy.”