Katie Kapurch’s co-edited collection, The Beatles and Humour, has been published by Bloomsbury. Katie authored a chapter about Shakespeare’s and Lewis Carroll’s influences and co-authored a chapter about the band’s debt to humor in Black music. The book is available now in digital formats, hardback coming this month.
Eric Leake’s book, Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters , was published by Routledge.
Becky Jackson (with co-authors Jackie Grutsch McKinney and Nicole Caswell) will deliver the keynote address at the annual conference of the Nebraska Writing Center Consortium on Friday, November 3, 2023. The keynote will merge findings from their award-winning book, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors, with their current longitudinal study on writing center director burnout.
MFA Endowed Chair Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s novel, Woman of Light, was awarded the WILLA Award in Historical Fiction from Women Writing the West. The WILLA Literary Awards, named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Willa Cather, recognizes the best in literature, featuring women’s or girls’ stories set in the North American West that are published each year.
Cyrus Cassells has been named a Texas State University System Regents’ Professor. The Regents’ Professor designation honors outstanding members of the system’s professoriate who have achieved excellence in teaching, research, publication, and community service, while demonstrating an unwavering dedication to their students and university. Cyrus will be honored in a ceremony at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, on November 17, 2023, at the quarterly Texas State University System meeting. The award includes $10,000.
Amanda Scott recently joined the 2023 Bedford New Scholars Advisory Board, an annual program that unites graduate students who share trends and insights on the various teaching challenges that they face in college composition classrooms.
Mike Hennessey, distinguished emeritus, published his anthology, Little Poems, an Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets volume (Kopf, 2023) this spring, with a favorable review appearing in the July 18 New York Times.
Along with the Crafting Communities project team, Denae Dyck published an article entitled, “Making Things Together: Collaborating and Mentoring on an OER Project.” Their Crafting Communities project recently received an Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI).
Robert Tally was recently a guest on the New Books Network podcast to discuss his book, For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism. You can listen to the interview here.
Susan Morrison gave a talk, “Pilgrimage and Metaphor: Agency for Medieval Women Pilgrims and Writers,” at a seminar entitled “Viatrices et itinera ad Loca Sancta” [“Travels and trips to the Holy Places”], Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento in Santiago, Spain on July 24, 2023.
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