On February 29, 2024, The University Star featured an article on Denae Dyck and her new book, Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination. (James Reeves is quoted in the article as well.) Available here: https://universitystar.com/25305/life-and-arts/associate-professor-to-bridge-literary-and-religious-gap-with-book/.
Associate Professor Cecily Parks’s poem “Hackberry” is featured in You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, a new anthology of previously unpublished poems releasing on April 2, edited by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and published by Milkweed Editions in association with the Library of Congress.
Ben Reed’s personal essay, “Vicarious Incantation: The Mixtape Love Letter,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of Cream City Review. Additionally, Ben has been awarded the Nontenure Line Faculty Workload Release to develop his essay collection on the beach as a place and site of metaphor in literature, music, and film. He will take this time in Fall 2024.
On February 27, drea brown, along with other faculty from Texas State and from San Marcos High School, was a featured speaker at The Importance of Black Storytelling: Texas State’s African American Read-In in the LBJ Ballroom.
Anthony Edsall will present a talk, “Silvered Rhetoric: Demagoguery, Temporality, and Necropolitics in an Age of School Shootings,” at the Northeast Modern Language Association’s convention in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 9, 2024.
Steph Grossman’s short story “Red on Yellow” was published in Salamander #57: available at https://salamandermag.org/
The Center for the Study of the Southwest has granted MA Literature student Ali Armstrong the opportunity to visit Granbury, Texas, in March, the site of the Mitchell-Truitt Feud, to explore further research associated with her essay “The Eyes of History: Folklore, Oral Storytelling, and Regeneration Through Violence in John Graves’s Goodbye to a River: A Narrative.” Ali plans to conduct local interviews and add to her existing research on the feud done through The Wittliff Collections. She will present her findings at the Texas State Graduate Student Research Conference on Tuesday, April 2. Additionally, Ali’s “The Golden Values: Gendered Strength, Biblical, and Numerical Symbolism in Rossetti and Milton” has been accepted for the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)’s conference, which will take place in Waco, Texas, in September 2024.
In February, Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton attended AWP and sat for a signing session for his chapbook, Rain Minnows, with the publisher Gnashing Teeth Publishing. At the People’s Literary Festival, he read his own poetry at a panel, “Ethereal Poetry of Sadness, Longing, Beauty, and the Damned.” He also chaired a People’s Literary Festival panel titled “Central Texas Bilingual Poetry: Versos del corazon de Tejas,” featuring Texas State MFA poets Abra Gist, Joe Lozano, and Bianca Pérez. Joshua’s debut full-length poetry collection, Excavator, launches April 28 with Gnashing Teeth Publishing.
Jay Cruz presented a talk, “Critical Pedagogy as Resistance in Grimms’ Fairy Tales” at the 2024 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM.
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