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.
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