Month: February 2022

MATC program graduate Ashley Ford was recently elected presiding officer of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Advisory Council on Postsecondary Education for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Ashley is the Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at The Arc of Texas in Austin, Texas. 

Geneva Gano was recently appointed to a three-year term on the San Marcos Library Board.

Effective March 1, 2022, Steve Wilson has been appointed to a three-year term on the City of San Marcos Arts Commission.

Texas State MFA alum David Hadbawnik’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Books VII–XII, has just been published: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781848617803/aeneid-books-viixii.aspx ; David’s translation on Books I –VI appeared in 2015.

Please send any news items to miscellany@txstate.edu or to Rob Tally at robert.tally@txstate.edu

MARC alum Lea Colchado has been awarded a 2022 Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The award supports scholars whose work participates in the making of meaning out of sexual and gender minority experiences. Colchado is currently a doctoral student at the University of Houston.

Sandra Sidi’s novel excerpt “Alon and Gal Go For a Drive” was published in Narrative Magazine: https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/winter-2022/fiction/alon-and-gal-go-drive-sandra-sidi

MFA students Alejandro Sobalvarro and Chisom Ogoke have been selected as semi-finalists for the Fulbright U.S. Student award. They are pursuing the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) and Study/Research awards, respectively, for the 2022-2023 grant period.

Please send any news items to miscellany@txstate.edu or to Rob Tally at robert.tally@txstate.edu