Meg Griffitts has had three poems accepted by pioneertown.
Octavio Pimentel has been named to the editorial board of Technical Communication Quarterly.
MA Literature graduate and Lecturer Sean Rachel Mardell will present “Systemic Colonization and the Criminal Caste in Orange is the New Black” at the South Central MLA meeting, to be held in San Antonio next month.
Autumn Hayes, MFA poetry graduate and Senior Lecturer, has a poem, “On Them,” in the latest issue of Storm Cellar; as well as an article, “The E-Racing of Meghan Markle,” in The Washington Spectator. Her workshop, “Using H5P Tools to Foster Higher-Order Thinking,” has also been accepted for the second annual H5P Conference in Melbourne, Australia, which will take place this December.
On September 14th and 15th, MA Literature graduate and Lecturer Shannon Shaw participated in the intensive interdisciplinary research start-up program, CoSearch, organized by the College of Fine Arts and Communication. Out of 22 research pitches, Shannon’s proposal, “Changing the Language of Sex,” was one of five finalists selected by vote to present at the Texas State Performing Arts Center. She is currently collaborating with colleagues Amanda Scott, Meg Griffitts, Whitney May, and Ali Saltzman to develop the project.
Anthony Bradley, current MFA poetry student, has a poem in the fall issue of Prairie Schooner.
MFA fiction student Ryan Lopez will present “Escaping Our Shared Illusions: A Style Analysis of ‘Jon’ by George Saunders” at “Reflections in the Funhouse Mirror,” a visual culture conference for graduate students, to be hosted by The Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University in late October.
Espacialidade, a Portuguese translation of Rob Tally’s 2013 book Spatiality, has just been published. Rob also has a busy speaking schedule over the coming weeks. Along with colleagues Katie Kapurch and Geneva Gano, he will take part in the College of Liberal Arts’ “Innovation Day” (organized by Aimee Roundtree) on September 24, 2018. He will serve as keynote speaker of the “Jornada Internacional de Estudos sobre o Espaço Literário” (International Study Days on Literary Space) conference in Viseu, Portugal, September 26, 2018; his speech, “Mapping Literature,” was video-recorded for presentation at the event, and he’ll conduct a Q&A session over Skype. Rob will present “The Spatial Turn in Literary Criticism,” at the Southeast Modern Language Association (SCMLA) conference in San Antonio, October 11-13, 2018; “Monstrous Accumulation: Topographies of Fear in the Age of Globalization,” at the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts (SCLA) conference in The Woodlands, Texas, October 19, 2018; and “Charybdis: Migration, the Mediterranean, and the World We Live In,” at the Ninth Biennial Race, Place, and Ethnicity conference in Austin, Texas, October 24, 2018. Rob will serve as keynote speaker for the Central Texas chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French’s meeting in San Marcos, Texas, October 27, 2018, discussing “What is Geocriticism?” He will also be keynote speaker for the Symposium on the Geographic Approach to Language, Literature, and Culture, sponsored by the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China, on November 3, 2018. His address, “Geocriticism: Literary Studies after the Spatial Turn,” has been video-recorded for presentation at the event. He will also present “Homo Cartographicus,” at the World Humanities Forum in Busan, Korea, on October 31, 2018.