MFA graduate Kaitlyn Burd’s novel, We Love You, Daisy Buchanan, was named the winner of the Writers’ League of Texas’s Manuscript Contest in the General Fiction category.
An interview with Cyrus Cassells by Michael Hettich appears in Hole in the Head Review.
Susan Morrison was one of two speakers in a keynote conversation for the “Climate/Changes/ Global Perspectives” Environmental Humanities International Online Summer Symposium through the University of Würzburg, Germany. Susan’s poem, “The Song of the Lark,” appeared in The Ekphrastic Review.
Miriam Williams’ article, “Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Public Policy in Technical Communication,” was published in the August issue of Technical Communication Quarterly.
Eric Leake’s response essay, “Entering Decolonial Translation through Dwelling and Storytelling,” was published in The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research (Peter Lang). Eric presented, “Living and Languaging Abroad and Cultivating Empathy,” via Zoom at LinGOcultura, a festival of languages and cultures hosted by Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and Gorizia, Italy, as European Capitals of Culture 2025.
Three poems by Vanessa Couto Johnson appear in TERSE Journal.
MFA graduate Leticia Urieta’s book, Las Criaturas, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.
MFA graduate Tomás Q. Morín’s poem,”Sartana and Machete in Outer Space,” is featured in Virginia Quarterly Review.
MA Literature grad Tina Žigon has just started teaching high school English at the International School of Minnesota, a private college preparatory school just outside of Minneapolis.
The MA Literature program congratulates the Spring and Summer 2021 graduates for successfully completing their degrees during these trying times, writing about a wide variety of fascinating topics:
Christopher Concepcion Malave, “Representations of Children in Fairy Tales and Disney Adaptations,” Area Exam, Dir. Teya Rosenberg
Moriah Grayson, “The Swamp and the Monster: Space, Liminality and Empathy in Maleficent and The Shape of Water,” Thesis, Dir. Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Luise Noé, “Intermedial Reparations After Postmodernism: The Intermedial Turn in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex and Louise Erdrich’s Shadow Tag,” Thesis, Dir. Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Jennifer Ricks, “Trusting the Child Narrator in Literature,” Area Exam, Dir. Teya Rosenberg
Rosie Sedgwick, “Cheat Codes of the Gods: Narrative and Greek Mythology in Video Games,” Dir. Suparno Banerjee
Christopher Solis, “Family Dysfunction in McEwan’s The Cement Garden, Lessing’s The Fifth Child, and Callenbach’s Ecotopia,” Area Exam, Dir. Allan Chavkin
Aaryn Stafford “Youth Reactions to Death in Children’s and Young Adult Literature,” Area Exam, Dir. Graeme Wend-Walker
Samantha Van Dale “Recycled Tropes, Suffocating Stereotypes, or Hope for Film Heroines,” Thesis, Dir. Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Raquel Zuniga, “Healing Self, Healing Community: A Chicana Feminist Analysis of Historical and Intergenerational Trauma in Anzaldúa’s and Cisneros’s Writing,” Thesis, Dir. Sara A. Ramírez.
English major Beyonce Morales has accepted a paid internship with the Texas Faculty Association (TFA). Her duties will include developing the organization’s social media presence, collaborating on the TFA newsletter, and researching subjects of interest to TFA officers.