Sara A. Ramírez presented “Expanding Space: The Decolonial Impetus to Rethink Reality in the Work of Andrea Muñoz Martinez” at the American Studies Association’s 2022 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Spatial Literary Studies in China, co-edited by Ying Fang and Rob Tally, has just been published. This collection of 19 essays features work by leading scholars in China today and emerged in part from Rob’s participation in events at a number of universities in Tianjin, Ningbo, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, China, in 2017 and 2019. Dr. Ying Fang, a professor of comparative and world literature at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, was a visiting scholar in the English Department at Texas State University in 2017.

Rob Tally has also (remotely) presented invited keynote talks at four recent international conferences: (1) “The Road, the Map, and the Redbook of Westmarch: Towards a Literary Cartography of Middle-earth” for the “Zeit und Raum in Tolkiens Werk / Time and Space in Tolkien’s Work,” a conference of the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V. and the Institut für Anglistik / Amerikanistik, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany; (2) “Thinking Geocritically; or, the Situation of Spatial Literary Studies,” School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, Nanjing, China; (3) “The Situation of Narrative: Space, Storytelling, and Critique,” for the “Narrating Spaces: Literature, Education, Geography, and Tourism,” 5th International Conference on Storytelling Revisited, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; and (4) “Marxism and Spatial Literary Studies,” for the “Reconstruction and Contemporary Development of Marxist Literary Criticism” conference, Centre for Theory of Literature and Art, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.

MA Literature student Katelyn Hammack’s poem “I, Woman” was recently accepted for publication in Querencia Press and will be included in their Winter 2022 anthology.

An interview with Cyrus Cassells was published in The Adroit Journal.

MFA Fiction student D.R. Garrett’s micro-fiction story Salvation Mountain was nominated for the Best Micro-Fiction 2023 anthology, which is published every year by Pelekinesis Press.

Sandra Sidi’s short story “The Garden of Israel Will Never Sleep” is featured on Narrative Magazine’s homepage.

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