Kali Fajardo-Anstine, the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. You can read more about this exciting news here.
B.A. in English and MFA graduate Dr. Trey Moody received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Creighton University. In the fall, Dr. Moody will begin service as Associate Chair. His forthcoming poetry collection will be published by
Conduit Books & Ephemera in October 2023.
MFA Fiction candidate Charmaine Denison-George’s essay, “Haunted: A Decade With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah,” was recently published in Brittle Paper.
MATC graduate Meghalee Das was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School at Texas Tech University, where she is currently completing her PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric.
Texas State MFA fiction student Charlene Caruthers has been accepted into the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s PhD in Creative Writing program and will begin her studies this coming fall.
Susan Morrison’s essay, “Behind the Iron Canon: Teaching Literary Theory in East Germany,” was published in The Font: A Literary Journal for Language Teachers. The editor describes Susan’s story as a “twisty tale of Cold War intrigue.”
MA Literature student Ali Armstrong’s “Pictures Revisited” was published in Disruptive Entanglements: Transnational Considerations of Performance and Adaptation, the latest issue from The Harbour Journal through the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
MARC student Jayson Guest presented a workshop titled, “New Wave Tsunami: Speaking for Code-Meshing and World Englishes as the Future of Academic and Professional Language,” at the South Central Writing Centers Association Conference at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Kate McClancy recently chaired the spring meeting of the Comics Arts Conference at WonderCon as well as presented two conference papers: “Sinking Deeper into the Cold War: Don’t Worry Darling and the Dangers of Nostalgia” at PCA/ACA in San Antonio and “’I’m just bored of men like you’: Burning Down Nostalgic Masculinity” at the War & Media Studies Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS) in Denver.
Cyrus Cassells’s poem, “Sung from a Hospice,” a Pushcart Prize winner, is featured in Copper Canyon’s just-published anthology, A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry, edited by Michael Wiegers. A review of Cyrus’s latest hybrid poetry collection, To the Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu, was recently published in CulturalDaily.com.
On Sunday, May 7th at 2:00 p.m., Vanessa Couto Johnson will read from her new poetry book,
pH of Au, with four other poets who have been published in Parlor Press’s Free Verse Editions 2022, over Zoom. You can find the Zoom link here.
Sigma Tau Delta participated in Texas State’s 20th annual Bobcat Build. Abra Gist, Jayson Guest, Cathlin Noonan, Madison O’Hara, Shannon Shaw, and Nancy Wilson helped long-time San Marcos residents with landscaping and painting.
Tune in to the First-Gen Podcast to hear Octavio Pimentel in conversation with first-generation faculty, students, and staff on Spotify and Apple Podcasts:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3fZuVaNQH0TxvTtCArFnFK
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/…/the-first-gen…/id1671641263
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