Graduate students and faculty are invited to “Coffee Night/Drop in” sessions this semester, in Flowers Hall 361. There will be coffee, tea, and snacks. Drop-ins will take place on the following dates: Wednesday Oct 10, 5:00-6:30; Tuesday November 13, 5-6:30; and Monday December 3, 5-6:30.

Kate McClancy presented “The Gender Game: Cold War Nostalgia and Women Spies” at the inaugural meeting of the Comics Studies Society, held at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana this past August.

A feature article on Naomi Shihab Nye was published by the University News Service: http://news.txstate.edu/featured-faculty/2018/naomi-shihab-nye.html.

Debra Monroe has signed a contract with textbook publisher Kendall Hunt to edit a teaching anthology tentatively titled Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. It will include her introductory essay on history as well as theory and craft. The book is slated for release in early 2020.

In July, Teya Rosenberg presented “‘Not in your time, indeed not in my time’: Educational Intent, Cultural Identity, and Global Influences in the Newfoundland Jack Picture Books” at the Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research in Wellington, New Zealand; and more recently, she spoke at the September meeting of PFLAG San Marcos about LGBTQ representations and issues in children’s and young adult literature.

On September 11, Susan Morrison taught a graduate seminar for Rice University, via Skype, on the topic of “Waste.”

Whitney May’s “Through the Cheval-Glass: The Doppelgänger and Temporal Modernist Terror in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” has been published in the summer issue of Supernatural Studies.