English major (and Outstanding Senior in English) Briana Gonzalez has been accepted to the University of Colorado’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. Briana will begin studies as an MFA in Poetry student this fall.

Dan Lochman was asked to edit a special issue of Sidney Journal (38.2 [2020]), which has just been released. He contributed to the issue a brief preface and an essay, “‘The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia is for the body…’ and soul: Energeia and Enaction in Sidney’s Apology and Arcadia.” The topic of the special issue is energeia as the forcible agent of affect and cognition in narratives and in readers of works by Sidney and writers he influenced. The issue includes an article by former MA Literature student Jessie Herrada Nance (now teaching at Portland State University): “‘Making Good in Confusion’: Energeia and Kalendar’s Garden in Philip Sidney’s New Arcadia.”

MARC graduate Lea Colchado has been accepted to the University of Houston’s PhD in Literature, Rhetoric and Composition, and Pedagogy Program. Lea will begin studies in fall 2021 with full financial support for the five-year program. Lea thanked Drs. Geneva Gano, Becky Jackson, and Nancy Wilson “for their continuous guidance, fuerzas, mentorship, and unwavering belief in me.”

Geneva Gano published a dual book review of two recent scholarly biographies in the Cleveland Review of Books. Read “Writing Willa Cather” here: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/home/melissa-j-homestead-daryl-w-palmer-willa-cacther-review-gano

English major Oscar Montes has been accepted to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and will begin studies as an MFA in Poetry student this fall.

MATC graduate Jenny Joy Van De Walle was promoted to Communications Lead for Texas State University’s IT Assistance Center. See advice and updates from Jenny on Texas State’s Division of Information Technology Blog: https://doit.wp.txstate.edu/author/jv1260/

B.A. in English graduate Langston Neuburger has been offered admission to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures Program and a Graduate College Fellowship Award, which covers tuition and includes a stipend.

MA Literature Program Graduate Assistant Amber Avila has been accepted to the Master of Professional Studies in Publishing program at George Washington University with a $5000 entrance scholarship.

English major Maddie Gummer has been accepted to the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and will begin studies as an MFA in Poetry student this fall.

Rebecca Bell-Metereau presented “Can Movies Save the Planet? Silkwood and Other Eco Warriors” on the “Ecocinemas and Local Interventions” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.

MATC graduate Allison Derton was promoted to Senior Technical Writer at Emerson Automation Solutions in Round Rock, Texas.

MA Literature student Austin Winn, who holds a Teaching Assistantship and is soon to graduate, has been accepted by the PhD in Literature program at University of North Texas.