Month: March 2022

Miriam F. Williams is SIGDOC’s 2022 Rigo Award Winner. The Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) is a subgroup of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international society that brings together researchers and other professionals who are involved in the advancement of computing. The Rigo Award was established in honor of Joseph Rigo, the founder of SIGDOC, and is dedicated to outstanding achievements in the development of communication projects. As the 2022 Rigo Award Winner, Miriam will present the keynote address in October at SIGDOC’s 40th Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

MFA fiction student Sabah Carrim’s short story “Dadima’s Key Ring” has just been shortlisted for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2022.

Senior Lecturer William Jensen’s short story “Night Owls” appeared in Mystery Tribune.

Chandler Treon’s “Modeling a Minority: Summarizing the Asian American Experience in The Joy Luck Club and Crazy Rich Asians” was published in the Asian American Policy Review, a journal of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. It is available online here:

 

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The Department of English is excited to announced that this year’s Outstanding Senior in English is Alyssa Reid. The committee had a difficult choice, with many students standing out both for their academic accomplishments and their scholarly, creative, and supportive contributions to their communities. Thank you to all our students, and thank you to all those faculty who provided valuable input during this challenging process

Third-year MFA fiction student Nkiacha Atemnkeng’s essay about his correspondence with Granta has been published by the Johannesburg Review:

https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/02/17/the-granta-emails-or-how-to-write-about-africa-revisited-notes-on-catalysing-a-moment-of-literary-reparations-by-nkiacha-atemnkeng/

Taylor Belgrade, Keri Fitzgerald, Sol Huerta, and Nancy Wilson presented “Where Do We Stand Now?: Writing Centers’ Commitment to Linguistic Justice in Digital Spaces” at the South Central Writing Center Association conference on February 6, 2022.

Cyrus Cassells’s latest book of poetry, The World That the Shooter Left Us, has just been published: https://fourwaybooks.com/site/the-world-that-the-shooter-left-us/

On February 22, 2022, Rob Tally remotely presented a talk, “Vonnegut against Vonnegut; or, the Perils of Misanthropic Humanism,” at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.

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