Alethea Maldonado, an English major from the Class of 2013, has just been honored with a NCTE Early Career Teacher of Color Leadership Award: https://ncte.org/awards/ncte-early-career-educator-teacher-of-color-leadership-award/
Alethea currently teaches 7th and 8th grade ESL at Lockhart Junior High School.
MFA graduate Tomás Q. Morín was featured on the cover of the latest issue of The American Poetry Review. You can read one of his poems from the issue here:
https://aprweb.org/poems/machetes
Geneva Gano was recently a guest on Priscilla Vance Leder’s radio show. They discussed Jenn Shapland’s hybrid memoir/biography, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers. In uncovering McCullers’ suppressed queer identity, Shapland celebrates her own—and the reader’s, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. You can hear the conversation here: https://www.mixcloud.com/PLeder/my-autobiography-of-carson-mccullers-by-jenn-shapland-broadcast-june-8-2021/?fbclid=IwAR0gXwwBrf8Vmgihq74cRZFHDZgjW4TLc6zgi_Oc5-Gef3A_xSCB4_mnNmI
A Turkish translation of Rob Tally’s book Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism has just been published; the translator, Emel Aras, who had also translated Rob’s Spatiality into Turkish, will be a visiting scholar in the English Department this coming school year. Rob’s article “Canon to Right of Them, Canon to Left,” on Harold Bloom’s posthumously published The American Canon, appears in the current issue of The American Book Review. Rob will give a keynote talk titled, “Topophrenia, Mapping, and the Situation of the Subject,” via Zoom for a symposium on “The Spatial Imagination and City-Making in Literature,” sponsored by the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Belgium.
Amanda Scott’s creative nonfiction piece “A Filling Station, A Falling Stallion” was recently published in Hobart. You can read the piece here: https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/a-filling-station-a-falling-stallion
Anne Winchell published a chapter entitled “Storytelling in Video Games” in the book Teaching the Game: A collection of syllabi for game design, development, and implementation (Vols. 1-2), edited by Richard Ferdig, Emily Baumgartner, & Enrico Gandolfi and published by ETC Press on July 1, 2021. This invited, peer-reviewed chapter discusses HON3396X: Storytelling in Video Games.
MFA graduate Nour Al Ghraowi’s poem “Khalini Ahkilak (Let me tell you)” appears in World Literature Today.
MFA fiction student Molly Yingling’s flash fiction piece “Expiry” recently appeared in Hobart.
Eric Leake’s co-authored chapter “Encountering Difference Through Empathy and Translingualism” was published in The Matter of Practice: Exploring New Materialisms in the Research and Teaching of Languages and Literacies (Information Age Press).
MFA student SG Huerta is featured in The Kenyon Review’s Poetry Today series. They answer questions about poetry, poetics, and their new book The Things We Bring With Us: Travel Poems: https://kenyonreview.org/2021/06/poetry-today-ricardo-maldonado-and-sg-huerta/
Graeme Wend-Walker was the guest on KZSM’s “Bookmarked” with Priscilla Vance Leder, where he discussed Russell Hoban’s novel Kleinzeit and his upcoming book on Hoban. Graeme’s short story “Your Pineapple Fritter Is Ready” appears in the current issue of Danse Macabre (number 135).
A new story One Talented Cat from MFA graduate Ryan Shane Lopez appears in Bodega.
On June 28, James Reeves was interviewed by Carrie Lynn Evans, host of the New Books Network’s “Secularism” channel, about his book, Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2020). The podcast is available here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/godless-fictions-in-the-eighteenth-century and on all major podcast platforms (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audacity, etc.)