Month: April 2022

Chris Dayley’s latest article, “Ethical Deception: Student Perceptions of Diversity in College Recruitment Materials,” has just been published in Communication Design Quarterly. It is available online here: https://sigdoc.acm.org/cdq/ethical-deception-student-perceptions-of-diversity-in-college-recruitment-materials/

Rob Tally’s review of Peter Grybauskas’s A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas appears in the latest issue of Mythlore: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol40/iss2/25/

Rebecca Bell-Metereau delivered “Exposing Environmental History through Conspiracy Biopics,” as presenter and panel chair, at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference on April 2, 2020.

Chisom Ogoke has been selected as a finalist for the 2022-2023 U.S. Student Fulbright Award. She will be studying oral storytelling in Barbados this August.

Geneva Gano participated in a (virtual) roundtable on “Minoritarian Modernisms” at the Modernist Studies Association spring 2022 conference, “Between the Acts.” Her paper was called “Downsizing Modernism: The Little Art Colony.”

Scott Mogull has just published the article, “Ethics and Practice of Knowledge Integrity in Communicating Health and Medical Research” in the journal Rhetoric of Health and Medicine. The full article is posted at: http://medicalrhetoric.com/journal/4-4/mogull/

REMINDER: The Department of English invites you to The Awards Ceremony honoring outstanding English Students, on Thursday, April 21, 2022, at 3:30 PM, in Flowers 341. (Reception to follow.)

 

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

 

Kate McClancy presented “Say Its Name: Cultural Appropriation and Resurrecting Cabrini Green in Candyman” at the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

MFA Fiction student Howard Meh-Buh Maximus has won the 2022 Afritondo Short Fiction Prize for his story “Grotto.”

MFA fiction alumna Samantha Jayne Allan has won the prestigious Tony Hillerman Prize, and her novel, Pay Dirt Road, which has been described as Friday Night Lights meet Mare of Easttown,” has been published by Macmillan: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250804280/paydirtroad

MFA Poetry alumnus Tomás Q. Morín has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

Susan Morrison presented (virtually) “Material and Metaphoric Waste: Toxicity and Redemption in The Bluest Eye, The Road, and The Four Quartets” at the 34^thEuropean Association for American Studies Conference: Wastelands. Madrid, Spain, on April 6, 2022. Also, Susan’s short story, “The Page Turner,” was published in Revenge, a collection of short stories, by Free Spirit in India.

Cecily Parks’s essay “The Past in Pastoral“ appears in the current issue of Ecotone, and another essay, “Cecily Aching Best,” is forthcoming this summer in Harvard Review.

The Cincinnati Review has accepted Doug Dorst’s short story “Yacare Caiman (Little Reptiles #7)” for its Fall issue.

On March 30, students in Steve Wilson’s “American Novel” course chatted with Chicana author Helena Maria Viramontes about her book, Under the Feet of Jesus, one of the texts they read for class. The Zoom visit was supported with funds from the Department’s Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series endowment.

REMINDER: The Department of English invites you to The Awards Ceremony honoring outstanding English Students, on Thursday, April 21, 2022, at 3:30 PM, in Flowers 341. (Reception to follow.)

 

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

Kansas University Professor of English Misty Schieberle, a Texas State alumna (B.A. English and M.A. Literature), has won award the 2022 University Scholarly Achievement Award. As noted in KU’s announcement, “Schieberle made […] a stunning discovery of a 15th-century manuscript by a prominent English author, royal secretary to Henry IV, Thomas Hoccleve. Schieberle’s discovery and article, ‘A New Hoccleve Literary Manuscript,’ substantially reorients approaches to Hoccleve, his original English poetry, and to 15th-century language and literature.”: https://today.ku.edu/2022/03/21/four-researchers-named-recipients-university-scholarly-achievement-award

Scott A. Mogull’s “Legal and Ethical Issues in Technical Content Marketing” was just published in the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) Journal. In this article, he examines content marketing for technology through a technical communication lens covering intellectual property, truth in advertising, comparative advertising, and local/global reach. The full article is available at: https://www.amwajournal.org/index.php/amwa/issue/view/10

Susan Morrison’s essay, “Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint Willibald,” appears in Women’s Lives: Self-Representation, Reception and Appropriation in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Petroff, edited by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Daniel Armenti (University of Wales Press, 2022), pp. 141–156. (Pdf available on request.)

The Department of English was well represented at the 43^rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando, Florida, which featured presentations by Suparno Banerjee (“Regional, National, and International: Problems of Translation and Dissemination of Indian Science Fiction”), Andrew Barton (“‘But the planet’s what matters, right?’: The Entangled Environmentalism of Three Final Fantasy VII Remake Communities”), and Graeme Wend-Walker (“Of and Not of a Community: Russell Hoban Finds [Against] Himself in Mid-Century New York City”). In a writers panel, Graeme also read from his novel-in-progress, Space Mutant Sex Robots in the Anthropocene.

Two Texas State alums also gave talks at the ICFA: Lillian Marie Martinez presented “Hip-Hop Questing: Locating Hip-Hop in the JRPG Final Fantasy VII Remake,” and Levi Herrera presented “Twin Peaks and Interpretive Communities as Memes.”

MFA poetry student SG Huerta’s poem “trans poetica” was featured in Split Lip Magazine’s March issue: https://splitlipthemag.com/poetry/0322/sg-huerta

Narrative magazine will publish an excerpt of Tom Grimes’s novel The Gospel According to Liam in its spring issue.

 

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