Month: November 2021

MISCELLANY – November 23, 2021

Department of English 

Miscellany 

November 23, 2021  

Susan Morrison was named a Texas State University System Regents’ Professor at the November 18th quarterly Board of Regents’ meeting. “The System’s highest faculty honor, the Regents’ Professor Award, is conferred upon professors who demonstrate excellence and exemplary achievement in the areas of teaching, research and publication, and service.”

 

Susan Morrison was recently interviewed by Asijit Datta from The Heritage College, based in Kolkata, India. View the discussion here: Wasting and Being Wasted: Self, Animals, Society.

 

Aimee Roundtree was appointed Faculty Fellow for the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP). The ORSP Faculty Fellow appointment is designed to complement leadership development programs in higher education and provides direct, hands-on experience in learning all dimensions of research administration.

 

Debra Monroe’s eighth book, It Takes a Worried Woman, a collection of essays, will be published in 2022 by the University of Georgia Press (The Crux Series in Literary Nonfiction). Five essays from this book have been published this year.

 

The Department of English was represented at the 2021 Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association Conferencein Las Vegas by Chisom Ogoke (“Madam Biko”), Jay Cruz (“Kerouac’s Pilgrimage Toward Empathy”), and Graeme Wend-Walker (“Children of the Night in a Sunburnt Country: Australian Vampires on Film”). Graeme also organized and chaired a special session, “Nnedi Okorafor: Destruction and Wholeness in African (and African-American) Science Fiction and Fantasy.”

 

On December 1, Cecily Parks will read poems, participate in a Q&A, and lead a creative writing exercise for Emergency Medicine residents and faculty in the Humanities Track and Wellness Track at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell. She is one of two poets featured in the event, which is titled “Caring: Depictions of Physicians by their Friends, Family, and Loved Ones.”

 

The Adroit Journal has nominated Ben Reed’s short story “The Interpretation of Dreams” for inclusion in Best American Short Stories.

 

Sandra Sidi’s short story “To Save a Butterfly” has won second place in Narrative Magazine’s Fall 2021 Short Story contest.

miscellany – November 1, 2021

Aimee Roundtree’s “Ethics and Facial Recognition Technology: An Integrative Review” was published in  IEEE’s 2021 3rd World Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (WSAI). Aimee will serve as keynote speaker at the 11th Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information.

MFA poetry student Fernando Izaguirre’s new poem “Abdomen” appears in New York Quarterly.

Amanda Scott was interviewed about Porter House Review by Becky Tuch, curator of the Lit Mag News Roundup. The interview is part of Becky Tuch’s editor series.

The Chinese translation of Rob Tally’s book Spatiality has been published by Peking University Press in Beijing. It was translated by Dr. Fang Ying, a professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University, who was a visiting scholar in Texas State’s Department of English in 2018.  Rob recently co-organized the annual conference of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts (SCLA), whose theme was “Spaces,” which took place October 14-16, 2021, in Austin. At the conference Rob presented a paper, “The Heterotopian Enclave,” and was elected Vice-President of the SCLA. Rob will be the keynote speaker at the 4th International Symposium on Sea Literature and Culture, hosted by the University of Ningbo, and his article, “‘Don’t the great tales never end?’: Tolkien, History, and the Desire Called Marx,” appears in the current issue of the Journal of English Language and Literature.

Three poems by Vanessa Couto Johnson appear in The Collidescope  and one poem in Club Plum Literary Journal. The Account informed Vanessa that her essay “my powerlifted Body” has been nominated for Best of the Net.