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.