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 43rd 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.
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