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