Department of English

Congratulations!

Miriam Williams‘ article, “The Social Justice Impact of Plain Language: A Critical Approach to Plain Language Analysis,” (co-authored with Natasha Jones of University of Central Florida), will be published in the 2017 Plain Language Special Issue of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Professional Communication.

Joe Falocco was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in support of his “Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays” project. The grant of approximately $63,000, awarded through Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Teachers, supports professional development programs in the humanities for school teachers, and college and university faculty. The venue for this NEH seminar is the Curtain Theatre in Austin, a reconstructed early-modern playhouse owned by Austin-area philanthropists Richard and Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux. Inspired by the Globe Theater in London, this unique facility features many of the architectural features of Shakespeare’s original stage. Joe also recently performed in Cabaret and in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at TexARTS Theatre in Lakeview.

Two poems by MFA graduate and Texas State Lecturer Autumn Hayes were recently published: “A Poem Some People Will Have to Misunderstand” appeared in 3:AM Magazine and “Sieges” appeared in Vol. 9, Issues 1-2 of The Seattle Review.

Katie Kapurch has been very busy with several projects. Her chapter, “The Wretched Life of a Lonely Heart: Sgt. Pepper’s Girls, Fandom, the Wilson Sisters, and Chrissie Hynde” appears in an edited collection titled The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). Her proposal for a new book, “Crying in the Sunshine: Conditional American Dreams in Los Angeles Pop Music,” has been accepted by Penn State University Press’s American Music History Series. Preliminary research for that book was made possible this summer by funding from the Texas State Research Enhancement Program. And, she wrote a review of Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism, which appears in the first 2017 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn. Katie won the internal competition at Texas State to submit a proposal for an NEH Summer Stipend.

Keith Needham was named the Outstanding University Seminar Instructor for Texas State University. His photo will be catalogued on the Texas State University website as the first recipient of this award, which will be given each year hereafter. He also receives a $1,000 stipend.

Lecturer and MFA poetry graduate Vanessa Johnson has two poems in the current issue of SOFTBLOW.

Rebecca Bell-Metereau was recently interviewed by an online publication titled Paratonnerre about the influence of the original Alien film on gender roles, science fiction, and film in general. It’s in English, but it’s also translated into French, for those who would like to buff up on their French.

At the 44th annual Children’s Literature Association conference, Marilynn Olson presented “Sadder and Wiser Circuses: Seeds of Rebellion in the Billy Whiskers Series,” Teya Rosenberg presented “Travelling Spirits: Min(d)ing the Past to Forge the Future in Works by Virginia Hamilton and Julius Lester,” and Graeme Wend-Walker presented “Imagining Futures, Imagining a Past: Nnedi Okorafor’s Afrofuturist Works of Trans-Temporal Healing.” The conference was held in Tampa, FL in June.

Also in June, Roger Jones’s Japanese haibun e-chapbook “Goodbye” was published online by the Snapshot Press in the UK.

Kitty Ledbetter will present a seminar titled “Using Periodicals in Creative Research and Teaching” at the 50^th anniversary celebration of Victorian Periodicals Review on September 15 at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.

Flore Chevaillier’s second book has been published by the Ohio State University Press. Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers examines the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction through a series of interviews with some of today’s most cutting-edge fiction writers.

Susan Morrison’s book, A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages, won a gold medal in College Nonfiction from Literary Classics. It is also now available in German from Verlagshaus Römerweg (Imprint: Berlin University Press) as Frauen des Mittelalters: Künstlerinnen – Herrscherinnen – Denkerinnen (translator Herbert Genzmer).

 

Alumnus Updates

John Fry’s first full-length poetry collection, With the Dogstar as My Witness, was a finalist for this year’s Orison Poetry Prize, will be published by Orison Books in 2018. The manuscript has also been a finalist for Tupelo Press’s Dorset Prize and the Nightboat Poetry Prize. John graduated from the MFA program in 2012. He currently lives in the Texas Hill Country and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin, where he’s writing a dissertation on medieval English literature. He edits poetry for Newfound Journal and also serves as an Assistant Program Coordinator for the University Writing Center at UT-Austin. His work has recently appeared in Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute, 2016), Waxwing, Blackbird, and Devil’s Lake.

• Congratuations!

  Laura Ellis-Lai received her Ph.D this May at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Her dissertation title is “Close Confidences: Students’ Experiences of Relational Pleasure, Reflective Competence, and Self-Authorship in FYC Research Writing.” Her dissertation includes a series of multi-year case studies from her English 1320 and Honors FYC Research-Writing courses at Texas State University.

  Robert T. Tally’s article, “An Anagogical Education,” appears in the current issue of the American Book Review 38.3 (March/April 2017): 6-7. The article is based on a talk he gave to a Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society meeting last fall.

  Rob has another piece of good news this month. His article, “In the File Drawer Labeled ‘Science Fiction’: Genre after the Age of the Novel,” appears in the latest issue of The Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol.63, No.2 (2017): 201-217.

  Rebecca Bell-Metereau presented a paper titled “Switching Genders, or Whom Do We Really Love?” at the French American Studies Association (AFEA) conference on the Pursuit of Happiness in Strasbourg, France, in May.

  Texas State MFA graduate Luisa Muradyan Tannahill has won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry for her manuscript, “American Radiance,” chosen by guest-judges Shara McCallum and Hilda Raz with Editor-in-Chief Kwame Dawes. Tannahill is originally from Odessa, Ukraine, and is currently a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Houston. Luisa currently serves as the editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. She was the recipient of the 2016 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Her work appears in Poetry International, West Branch, Ninth Letter, the Los Angeles Review, Rattle, and the Paris-American, among other journals.

  Susan Hanson‘s photo “Texas Wild Rice” was recently chosen as the Grand Prize Winner in the Texas Hill Country Alliance’s 2017 Hill Country Photo Contest. This photo will be featured in the 2018 Texas Hill Country Calendar. Susan also has had two photos accepted for the Texas Photographic Society’s 30th Annual Members’ Only Show, juried by Malcolm Daniel, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and four selected as finalists in the Hill Country Photography Club’s 13th annual Naturescapes Contest & Exhibition, which will open Sept. 9. Earlier this summer, Susan presented “Finding Balance in a Solo Canoe” at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Congratulations:

Kathryn Ledbetter’s article, “Taking the Multitudes Abroad: Dinah Mulock Craik’s Travel Narratives in Victorian Family Magazines,” has been published in a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review dedicated to Linda Peterson.

Susan Morrison’s book, A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages, has won three 2016 Foreward INDIES Book Awards for Adult Nonfiction in Women’s Studies, History, and Young Adult categories.

MFA poetry graduate Meg Griffitts has a poem on the American Echolocation site: https://thefemlitmag.com/american-echolocation-or-another-black-body-in-a-bag-by-meg-e-griffitts-10857f985c39

Lauren Schiely presented at the Canadian Writing Centres Association in Toronto at the end of May. Her presentation was entitled “Sharing Their Stories: Continuing the Conversation on Narrative Inquiry as a Method of Research for Writing Centers.”

Flore Chevaillier presented “Fetishization and Jim Crow in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables” at the American Literature Association, held in Boston this past May. Her article “Reading Pierre Bourdieu after William Pietz,” appears in Intertexts: a Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection.

MFA 2016 graduate, James Deitz’s poetry chapbook, Still Seeing a Dead Soldier, a poetic narrative exploration of life after the Iraqi War and living with PTSD, will be published by Turning Point, a WordTech Communications imprint. Three poems from this collection are featured in The Meadow.

MFA graduate and former lecturer Elizabeth Threadgill will begin a new position in August as Assistant Professor of English at Utica College, where she will be coordinating the developmental writing program and teaching advanced composition.

 

Other English Department News:

The following faculty have been recognized by the Honors College for supervising Honors theses: John Blair supervised Marissa Harris’s Daoine Sidhe: Celtic Superstitions of Death within Irish Fairy Tales Featuring the Dullahan and Banshee; René LeBlanc supervised Believe: A Collection; Twister Marquiss supervised Alexis Avignon’s More Human, Less Being: Stories; Stephanie Noll supervised Keeping Up with the Sexualities: An Interview Based Play; Aimee Roundtree supervised Riding the Tide of Modern Health Care: A Rhetorical Analysis of Low Technologies; Alan Schaefer supervised Luke Jenkins’ Werewolves and Doctors and Zombies: The Transformation of Spain through the Lens of Horrow.

Aimee Roundtree has been selected as the new Associate Dean for Research in the College of Liberal Arts. Aimee will begin her assignment this fall, replacing Brit Bousman of Anthropology, who served in the position since 2011.

Karen Russell will be joining us in August as the University Chair of Creative Writing for two years beginning this fall. She is the author of four creative books, including the best-selling Swamplandia! (2011) along with many other short stories and excerpts, in addition to being a Pulitzer Prize finalist, MacArthur Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow.

Stan Rivkin has been selected for a senior lecturer position that combines teaching with assisting the Director of the MFA program.

Congratulations:

Twister Marquiss has been named Director of the Common Experience program.

Roger Jones had two poems accepted to appear later this year in Southern Poetry Anthology VIII:  Texas, edited by William Wright.

Amanda Scott attended the National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) meeting, which took place from April 12-16th in San Diego, CA, presenting a personal essay entitled “A Good, Smiling Face: The Art of Preservation.”

The Bellingham Review has selected John Blair’s poem, “The Art of Forgetting,” as the winner of the 2017 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, for which he will receive a $1000 prize and publication in the Spring 2018 issue.

The Office of Retention Management named Keith Needham the 2017 Faculty Mentor of the Year for his mentoring of a Texas State student.

“Writing Center Tutor Corps: A Veterans-Tutoring-Veterans Program,” by Nancy Effinger Wilson and Micah Wright, appears in the latest issue of Writing Lab Newsletter.

Miles Wilson’s “Death by Fire” appears in the latest issue of Crazyhorse and was reprinted in Longreads (https://longreads.com/2017/05/08/death-by-fire/), which recently reprinted pieces from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Esquire.  “Death by Fire,” along with “Bang” (Southwest Review) and “Body of Work” (Cream City Review), are part of a collection of creative nonfiction about the American West.

MFA fiction graduate Ray Robertson’s 8th novel, 1979, is forthcoming next year. This summer he will serve as the first North American writer-in-residence at the House of Writers in Trsic, Serbia: http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2017/04/17/first-north-american-author-to-serve-as-writer-in-residence-at-house-of-writers [archived].

Octavio Pimentel will present “Not Making America Great: Racist Rhetoric Against Mexicans and African Americans” at the Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, to be held in Salt Lake City this coming October.

Susan Morrison’s Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife (Top Hat Books, 2015) has been selected as a 2016 Wishing Shelf Book Award finalist in the category of Adult Fiction. This July, she’ll present “Making Kin with St. Francis, Pope Francis, and Francis the Ladybug: Ecological and Ethical Tenancy in the Anthropocene” as an invited lecture at Universität Würzburg (Germany) as part of the series Vorträge am Interdisziplinären Forum für Cultural Environmental and Animal Studies (IFCEAS).

MA graduate Shaun Clarkson has received his PhD from Purdue University.

A photo by Susan Hanson has been selected as the cover for Ecocritical Aesthetics:  Language, Beauty, and the Environment, edited by Scott Slovic and Peter Quigley, and soon to be released by Indiana University Press.

Dan Lochman co-organized three panels titled “Cognitive/Affective Cultures” for the Chicago meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, March 30-April 1 and presented “’The troublous passion of my pensiue mind’: Britomart, Mind, and Memory”; and presented on April 22 the paper “Mastering ‘mazy paths’: William Scott’s Model of Poesy on Heroic Narrative” at the South Central Renaissance Conference, held in Austin.

Alan Schaefer was named a favorite professor by the undergraduate inductees to Alpha Chi Honor Society.

Incoming MARC students Tiffany Rainey and A.R. Rogers have both received Graduate Merit Fellowships recognizing academic excellence.

MARC graduate Shaun Ford has been accepted into the PhD program in Theory and Cultural Studies at Purdue University for this coming fall, supported by a Doctoral Fellowship providing 5 years full funding, a tuition waiver, and medical insurance supplement.

Amelia Gray (fiction, 2007) won the 2016 New York City Public Library’s ‘Young Lion’ Award:  https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-10-2016/writer-amelia-gray-wins-2016-young-lions-fiction-award-gutshot. Her second novel, Isadora, will be published on May 23^rd: “Historical novels about artists abound, but few attain the psychological intricacy, fluency of imagination, lacerating wit, or intoxicating beauty of Gray’s tale of Isadora Duncan” ―Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review).

James Knippen is the recipient of a 2017 Discovery/Boston Review prize; he will travel to New York City in May to give a reading. Also, two poems, “Poem” and “Portents,” appear in the current issue of Kenyon Review Online: http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2017-marapr/selections/james-henry-knippen-763879/.

Cecily Parks was selected as Outstanding English Professor of the Year by the Texas State chapter of Sigma Tau Delta.

A book that features a chapter written by Kitty Ledbetter, The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers, has won the prestigious Robert L. Colby Book Prize from the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Her chapter is entitled “Women’s Periodicals.”

Congratulations:

MFA student Ashton Kamburoff was selected for a space in the Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop in Denver, Colorado by Ada Limón. Limón will lead the week-long workshop from June 12th-16th. Ashton also was named the 2017-18 Clark House Writer-In-Residence by the MFA faculty.

 

Mark Busby attended the Conference of College Teachers Association Conference, held at Tarrant County Community College from March 3-5, serving as a CCTE Council member as well as presenting “The Slave Narrative from Frederick Douglass to William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner to Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation” at the Texas College English Association affiliated meeting.

 

MFA fiction student Graham Oliver interviewed recent Whiting Award-winner Tony Tulathimutte for Electric Literature. They talked about the complex relationship between literature and video games: https://electricliterature.com/the-field-of-dreams-approach-on-writing-about-video-games-5c58d4ddf9f4.

 

Cecily Parks was named Outstanding English Professor of the Year by students in Texas State’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.

 

Rob Tally’s article “The Southern Phoenix Triumphant: Richard Weaver, or, the Origins of Contemporary U.S. Conservatism” appears in b2o: An Online Journal (the peer-reviewed online journal of the boundary 2 editorial collective): http://www.boundary2.org/2017/03/robert-t-tally-jr-the-southern-phoenix-triumphant-richard-weaver-or-the-origins-of-contemporary-u-s-conservatism/.

 

MFA poetry graduate Jonathan Hobratsch conducted an interview with Cyrus Cassells for the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/2017-poetry-month-an-interview-with-cyrus-cassells_us_58de8c39e4b03c2b30f6a5db.

 

Steve Wilson has new poems in the latest issues of Texas Observer, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review and Noon: Journal of the Short Poem.

 

Tomás Q. Morín’s new collection of poetry Patient Zero was released on April 11th by Copper Canyon Press. The libretto he translated, Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, will have its Austin premiere at the Paramount Theater as part of the Fusebox Festival on April 14th and 15th. More details can be found here: https://www.fuseboxfestival.com/dates/pancho-villa-from-a-safe-distance.

 

MARC graduate Sonia Arellano earned her PhD from the University of Arizona this semester.

Congratulations:

Ms. Emily Chammah, who was named Emily Smith while at Texas State, spent a year in the MFA Fiction program a couple of years ago before moving to New York. She has just been named one of the 12 winners of the 2016 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is listed at this PEN America site: http://pen.org/2017-pen-literary-awards-winners/.
Eric Leake’s interviews with Doug Hesse and Nancy Sommers have been re-published in the collection Teachers on the Edge: The Writing on the Edge Interviews 1989–2017 (Routledge).
Kitty Ledbetter attended the Texas State Historical Association’s 121st Annual Meeting in Houston March 2-4, where she presented “Textiles, Text, and Media Replication During the Mexican War.”
Miriam Williams has been named a Fellow of the Association for Teachers of Technical Writers. You can read the announcement of Miriam’s achievement here: http://attw.org/about-attw/fellows/2017-williams [archived].
Susan Morrison’s A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages has just been named a 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist in three categories: Adult Nonfiction; Women’s Studies; and Young Adult Nonfiction: https://awards.forewordreviews.com/books/a-medieval-womans-companion/.
Suparno Banerjee and Graeme Wend-Walker represented Texas State at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando. Suparno presented “Communism and Soviet Utopias: From Aelita to Andromeda,” and Graeme presented “Virtual Celebrity: Exploring Identity in The Ziggurat, Watkin Tudor Jones’s Pre-Die Antwoord Sci-Fi Opus.” Graeme also read his short story “The Pale Evacuation” in an author’s panel.
Ben Reed’s flash fiction piece, “Brothers,” appears in the March 2017 issue of Ghost Parachute. His essay “Trigger Warnings” appears in the Fall/Winter issue of The Texas Review.
Dorothy Lawrenson will begin pursuit of her PhD in Creative Writing this fall at the University of Edinburgh, supported by a College Research Award to cover fees and provide a stipend.
Rob Tally’s “Giving Shape to Gloom; or, Keeping it Real in The House of the Seven Gables” appears in Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom (AMS Press, 2017). In addition, Rob will be the keynote speaker for “Turning Point(s),” the 30th Annual Graduate Association of French and Italian Students (GAFIS) symposium at the University of Wisconsin, March 31, 2017. His talk is titled “Swerves, Tropes, Peripeties: Toward a Theory of the Turning Point.”

Congratulations:

Manny Pina, MARC graduate and current instructor at St. Edward’s University, has been accepted into the PhD program in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University.
MFA fiction student Ramiro G. Hinojosa’s short story, “Rest & Relaxation,” will be published in the Fall 2017 issue of Huizache.
MA Literature student Thais Rutledge attended the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture in mid-February, presenting “Navigating Social Spaces: Ideology, Sexuality, and Memory in Mrs. Dalloway.”
Mark Busby attended the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association meeting in Albuquerque Feb 15-18 and read from his new poetry collection, Through Our Years, at a creative writing session.
MATC alumna Jennifer Cleveland has accepted a position as Business Analysis Coordinator with Sprint Accessibility. She will provide communication support for deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, and assist with proposal management and RFP (request  for proposal) processes.
MFA poetry student Ashton Kamburoff has accepted the position of poetry editor for Profane Journal. Profane publishes a print issue yearly in the winter and accepts poetry, fiction, flash, essays and interviews.
“Orientation,” a story by MFA fiction student Shannon Perri, will be published next month in fields magazine.
Octavio Pimentel has been invited to serve as a symposium scholar for the September 2017 Watson pre-conference symposium, and as a keynote speaker for the 2018 Thomas Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. The conference and symposium, whose theme will be “Making Future Matter,” will both to be held at Louisville, Kentucky. The Thomas Watson conference is considered one of the top tier rhetoric and composition conferences.
Steve Wilson and Vanessa Couto Johnson took part in a reading sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Southwest this March.  The event, moderated by Will Jensen, celebrated the recent publication of the anthology Texas Weather, in which Steve and Vanessa’s poetry appears.

Congratulations:

Two stories by William Jensen were nominated by a member of the Board of Contributing Editors for Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses: “A Quiet Place to Hide” appeared in North Dakota Quarterly and “Come Again Another Day” appeared in the anthology, Texas Weather.

 

Rob Tally participated in The Society for Critical Exchange’s Winter Theory Institute, held Feb 9-12 at the University of Houston-Victoria. The topic of the 2017 Institute was “Antitheory,” and Rob’s talk was titled “Anti-Antitheory”: http://societyforcriticalexchange.org/wintertheoryinstitute.aspx.

 

Stephen Harmon’s poem, “Dawn,” has been accepted by Volt.

 

MFA poetry student Ashton Kamburoff’s will present “Blue Class / Working Collar: An Examination of the Poetics of Phil Levine” at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment at Wayne State University in Detroit, taking place this June.

 

Natasha Tretheway has chosen Cyrus Cassell’s poem, “Elegy with a Gold Cradle,” for Best American Poetry 2017, which will be published by Scribners in September. In Spring 2018 the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (Southern Illinois University Press) will publish his sixth book, The Gospel According to Wild Indigo.

 

MATC alumni now hold the following positions in Texas State’s IT and University Marketing departments: Jennifer Small (User Service Consultant II, IT Assistance Center), Jenny Joy Van De Walle (Program Specialist – Technical Writer, IT Assistance Center), Jennifer Johnson (Coordinator, IT Projects – Technology Resources Administration), Jen LaGrange (Coordinator, IT Projects – IT Assistance Center), and Chase Rogers (Web Content Strategist – University Marketing).

 

Kate McClancy presented “‘It Doesn’t Have to Match’: Cold War Style and Masculinity in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” at the Southwest Popular Culture / American Culture Association conference in Albuquerque this month.

 

MATC alumnus Jael Perales has been hired as an Academic Editor for the American Journal Experts Division of Research Square, a for-benefit company that helps researchers around the world get their work effectively communicated and published.

Congratulations:

MFA fiction student Ramiro G. Hinojosa’s short story, “Field Manual,” has been accepted for publication in War, Literature & the Arts.

 

In early February, Scott Mogull will present research entitled, “Intersection of Technical Communication and Marketing Genres: Spanning Silos through Product Documentation” at the Fifth Colloquium Technical Communication in the Field, hosted by the Université Paris Diderot.

 

MA Literature student Thais Rutledge has been accepted into The University of Texas at Austin’s PhD program in Comparative Literature, and will receive full funding.

 

Aimee Kendall Roundtree was interviewed on the “10 Minute Tech Comm” podcast about her article, “Social Health Content and Activity on Facebook: A Survey Study.” The episode is available at the following link: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/10minute-tech-comm/e/48933864. Aimee also received a $20K grant from State Farm to research and design an intervention for improving fire incident reporting strategies. She will use text mining and qualitative research methods to characterize best practices and identify barriers that hinder report accuracy, consistency, and quality. The project will help San Marcos and College Station Fire Departments set reporting guidelines, create reporting templates, and train firefighters.

 

Miles Wilson’s new and selected stories 1977-2017 will be published by the University of New Mexico Press.  His literary papers have been acquired by the Southwestern Writers Collection.

 

Sections 1-20 of Kathleen Peirce’s book-length poem Vault will appear in the next issue of Poetry International, and the book will be published in its entirety by New Michigan Press, available in the fall of this year.

 

Rob Tally’s edited collection of essays, The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (Routledge 2017), has just been published: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Literature-and-Space/Tally-Jr/p/book/9781138816350.

 

Mark Busby’s collection of poetry, Through Our Times: Occasional Poems 1960-2017, is now out from Lamar University Literary Press.