Department of English

Congratulations:

Leah Schwebel co-edited and contributed to a special issue of The Chaucer Review on “The Legend of Good Women”: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/645816/pdf. Leah’s article is entitled “Livy and Augustine as Negative Models in The Legend of Lucrece”; she also co-wrote the Introduction, “Looking Forward, Looking Back on the Legend of Good Women.” This past fall, Leah was recognized as an Alpha Chi favorite professor.

 

Flore Chevaillier presented “Machine, Body, and Text in Eduardo Kac’s Non-human Poetry” at the 2017 MLA meeting in Philadelphia this January.

 

MFA fiction student Graham Oliver has been rehired for 2017 as a Ploughshares blogger. Last year he interviewed translators for the site, and you can read his end-of-the-year round-up at this link: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/lessons-from-a-year-in-translation/. His 2017 series will focus on newly released books with rural settings; his first entry looked at prize-winning novels from 2016: http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/past-the-city-limit-sign-the-role-of-rural-in-2016-books/.

 

Cecily Parks has three poems in the latest issue of Terrain.org: http://www.terrain.org/2017/poetry/cecily-parks/.

 

Alan Schaefer served as guest editor of the fall 2016 issue of Southwestern American Literature. The issue focuses on writing about and by musicians of the Southwest: http://www.txstate.edu/cssw/publications/sal.html.

 

Aimee Kendall Roundtree won a teaching grant along with Dr. Hunter Close (Physics), Dr. Kristina Collins (Education), Dr. Grayson Lawrence (Art and Design), and Dr. Ziliang Zong (Computer Science). She will serve as Project Director on “Coding Across the Disciplines,” a $100K project to teach computer programming skills to middle and high school teachers from all disciplines. The project was funded by WeTeach_CS, a program of The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for STEM Education.

 

Gabriella Corales – who graduated with a degree in English a few years ago, received a Rockefeller Fellowship and then completed her Masters degree at Stanford – currently teaches at the Impact Academy in California.  She recently published an essay on her experiences in Education Week Teacher: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2016/10/response_fear_should_not_stop_us_from_exploring_controversial_topics_in_school.html.

 

“In Summer 2017 the College of Liberal Arts will present a bilingual adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Performances will be August 3 – 10 in Centennial Hall G02 on the Texas State Campus. Professional actors from Austin will collaborate with Texas State Spanish and Theatre majors to present this adaptation to the public. This production is made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Rob Tally’s essay “The Novel and the Map: Spatiotemporal Form and Discourse in Literary Cartography” appears in Space, Time, and the Limits of Human Understanding, edited by Shyam Wuppuluri and Giancarlo Ghiradri (Springer 2017).

Congratulations:

MFA fiction graduate and Senior Lecturer Eric Blankenburg’s “The Devil Doesn’t Care: Choice and Chance in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men” was accepted for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, to be held February 2017 in Albuquerque, NM. The paper was written as part of Mark Busby’s graduate seminar on Cormac McCarthy.

 

Rebecca Bell-Metereau’s “An Actor’s Director: Kubrick and Star Performances” appears in Critical Insights: Stanley Kubrick, published by Salem Press (2016).

 

Rob Tally’s essay “Tolkien’s Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings” appears in Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Also recently published is “‘A Utopia of the In-Between,’ or, Limning the Liminal,” Rob’s foreword to Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place, published this year by London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

 

Katie Kapurch, Jon Marc Smith and Suparno Banerjee have received Texas State Research Enhancement Program grants for 2017.

 

Aimee Roundtree was named an Alphi Chi Favorite Professor for Fall 2016.

 

Last spring and summer, Doug Dorst worked on the writing staff of the new TV show, Z: The Beginning of Everything, a half-hour drama starring Christina Ricci as Zelda Fitzgerald. Amazon Prime will release all ten episodes of the first season simultaneously on January 27. Doug received Writers’ Guild credit for Episode 7 (“Where There Are Friends, There Are Riches”). A trailer for the show can be seen here, along with an early version of the pilot episode: https://www.amazon.com/Z-The-Beginning-of-Everything/dp/B017APVGL4 [archived].

 

MFA fiction alumna Christine Granados’s second short story collection, Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children, will be published in March and was reviewed recently in Kirkus Reviews: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christine-granados/fight-like-a-man-and-other-stories-we-tell-our-chi/ [archived].

Congratulations:

Susan Morrison was in Las Vegas recently to accept the Top Honors Book Award for Young Adult Fiction from Literary Classics, for her novel Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife: https://grendelsmotherthenovel.com/2016/10/18/grendels-mother-wins-top-honor-award/. Susan also received a $1,000 UT Center for European Studies: MSI Faculty Travel Grant for her current project called A Wall Newspaper: A U.S.-East German University Exchange Program During the Cold War. The grant will support her travel for research next summer.

 

MATC student Jonathan Prichard has accepted a Peace Corps assignment in Ecuador, beginning in May. He will serve as a health extension volunteer, a position similar to a community health organizer.

 

Octavio Pimentel’s essay “Changing Discourse: Giving a New Voice to Latinos” has been accepted for the 51st annual meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, to be held at the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche in Campeche, México next March.

 

MFA fiction graduate and Lecturer Daniel Keltner signed a publishing contract for his first book, Into That Good Night, which will be published by Skyhorse in early 2018.

 

“Formed by Place: Spatiality, Irony, and Empire in Conrad’s ‘An Outpost of Progress,'” co-authored by Rob Tally and MA Literature student Thais Rutledge, appears in the latest issue of Transnational Literature: http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/current.html

 

MFA poetry student Ashton Kamburoff’s poem “Tagging Up” is a finalist for the Earl Weaver Baseball Writing Prize, sponsored by Cobalt Review. The winner will be announced during the World Series. His poem “Elegy for Bob Kaufman” will appear in the December issue of Rappahannock Review.

 

MFA poetry student Meg Griffitts’ “Not Missing a Beat[ing]: Reconstructing Violence within a Feminist Economy,” was accepted for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, to be held February 2017 in Albuquerque, NM.

 

Kitty Ledbetter attended the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in Phoenix, AZ, where she presented “Over the Teacups’ and The Woman at Home.”

Congratulations:

In September, Mark Busby presented “Satireshot/Scattershot: Targets in Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” at the Western Literature Association conference in Big Sky, MT.  Mark read poetry at the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers conference, held in San Antonio in early October.

 

“Éxito (Success),” written by Octavio Pimentel and Nancy Wilson, appears in Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy: https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Rhetoric-Composition-Studies-Keywords/dp/1137527234.

 

Recent MARC graduate Edward Santos Garza has accepted a position as a Rhetoric Assessment Affiliate for the University of Texas at Austin’s OnRamps program, which brings rigorous, dual-enrollment writing courses to thousands of students in underprivileged high schools across the state. In addition, Edward is in his first semester as an adjunct English professor at St. Edward’s University, where fellow MARC graduate Clare Murray is a new faculty member, as well.

 

Two poems by MFA poetry student Meg Griffitts appear in the latest issue of Luna Luna Magazine: http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-by-meg-e-griffitts.

 

The Houston Public Poetry recently invited MFA poetry graduate and current lecturer Autumn Hayes to perform her poems with alt-country band Charlie and the Regrets at the inaugural “PM Show: Poets and Musicians at Night.” The show will take place on Saturday, October 22 at Rudyard’s Pub in Houston and is the first in a series of intentional collaborations between poets and musicians: http://www.publicpoetry.net/2016/10/the-pm-show/. Autumn is one of three poets specifically selected by the Public Poetry board; poets who wish to participate in future performances must audition. Four of Autumn’s poems – “No. 1: Color,” “No. 2: Textures,” “No. 3: Lengths,” and “What to Do with Silence?” – have been accepted for publication in African American Review.

 

Twister Marquiss, Director of Texas State University’s Common Reading Program and a faculty member in the English Department and Honors College, was presented with a “Foundations of Excellence” award during the Texas State Student Foundation’s annual dinner ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 12. He was one of ten award recipients, and one of only three recipients from the university’s faculty. The award was presented by Honors student Haley Tucker. The Foundations of Excellence award is the Student Foundation’s annual recognition event that provides Student Foundation members with the opportunity to honor ten faculty and staff members who have made an extraordinary impact on the lives of Student Foundation members and the Texas State University community as a whole.

 

Eric Leake’s article “The Dinner Table Debate and the Uses of Hospitality” has been published in the latest issue of Present Tense: http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/the-dinner-table-debate-and-the-uses-of-hospitality/

Congratulations:

“The Myth of the Colorblind Composition Classroom: White Instructors Confront White Privilege in Their Classrooms,” authored by Octavio Pimentel, Charise Pimentel and MFA fiction graduate Dean, appears in Performing Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication, published by The WAC Clearinghouse.

 

On October 9, MFA Faculty Doug Dost, Jennifer DuBois, Roger Jones and Steve Wilson read their work at Malvern Books in Austin.

 

Debra Monroe has published a researched essay in The Rumpus, titled “Trouble in Mind.” An essay by Debra has been cited by Houghton Mifflin’s annual anthology, Best American Essays (her 4th BAE “Notable” citation in 4 years); the essay, “The Wild Life,” was originally published in Texas Monthly and, in part, details the shambolic state of the Texas State campus when she arrived in 1992. Debra’s lyric essay (originally published in Hobart), titled “Transit, 1986,” is forthcoming in the Norton Anthology of Flash Fiction.

 

MARC student Nathaniel Hagemaster will present “De/Composing & Re/Visioning the Writing Center Frontier: Exploring Access in Writing Center Spaces” on a panel with MARC alumni Megan Boeshart and Shaun Bryan at the International Writing Centers Association conference in Denver, CO, in October.

 

Lecturer and MFA fiction graduate Ben Reed’s story “My Neighbor the Pilot” is winner of the 2016 Texas Observer Short Story Contest: https://www.texasobserver.org/2016-short-story-contest-winner-ben-reed/. In addition, his flash fiction piece, “Bull & Finches,” was recently published on The Open Bar, the blog for Tin House: http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/44341/bull-finches.html; and his essay “Trigger Warning: Reflections on Politeness, Dystopia, and Concealed Firearms in the College Classroom” was recently accepted for publication by The Texas Review.

 

Two poems by Steve Wilson (“May Cold Front” and “Burrow”), along with his audio recordings of the poems, appear in the latest issue of Bluestem: http://bluestemmagazine.com/online/october-2016/troilets/.

Congratulations:

At the Fall 2016 College of Liberal Arts Convocation, the following English Department faculty received awards: Stephanie Noll and Steve Wilson received Golden Apple and Presidential Distinction Awards for Teaching, Paul Cohen received a Presidential Distinction Award for Service, Katie Kapurch received a College Achievement Award for Scholarly / Creative Activity, and Chad Hammett received a College Achievement Award for Service.

 

Chad Hammett’s book 2 Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark will be released by UT Press in a new paperback edition in the spring of 2017.

 

MFA fiction graduate Melissa Henderson (formerly Melissa Stephenson) has sold her memoir, Driven, to Harcourt.

 

“A String Between Two Tin Cans,” an essay by recent MFA fiction graduate Samantha Tanner, appears in the latest issue of Electric Lit: https://electricliterature.com/a-string-between-two-tin-cans-741d165d9ba7#.uivs54wkk.

 

MFA Fiction student Allison Grace Myers’ essay “Perfume Poured Out” was published in the summer issue of Image: https://imagejournal.org/article/perfume-poured-out/.

 

MATC student Rachel Berryhill will present “Sex Symbols and Subject Matter Experts: The Role of Females in a Military Comic Book” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s 38th Annual Conference, held February 15-18 2017 in Albuquerque, NM. In this presentation Rachel will describe the changing representations of civilian and soldier females in comic books.

 

Kitty Ledbetter presented a paper titled “‘Gnat-like Swarms of Aborigines’: King Arthur, Paddy, and Other Unknown Places in Dinah Mulock Craik’s Travel Narratives” at the annual conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in early September.

 

Eric Leake’s essay “The Promise and Practice of Cosmopolitan Empathy” appears in Countertransference in Perspective, published by Sussex Academic Press. His article “Writing Pedagogies of Empathy: As Rhetoric and Disposition” appears in the latest issue of Composition Forum: http://compositionforum.com/issue/34/.

 

Shannon Perri (MFA fiction) will present “The Battle of Gender Norms, Violence, and Social Conscience: A Close Look at Form in ‘The Girl on the Plane’ by Mary Gaitskill” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico next February. The paper was written for Debra Monroe’s Form and Theory of Fiction class.

Congratulations:

Rebecca Jackson’s article (written with Jackie Grutsch McKinney and Nicole Caswell), “Writing Center Administration as/and Emotional Labor,” will appear in the fall 2016 issue of Composition Forum. Her article, also written with Jackie Grutsch McKinney and Nicole Caswell, “Metaphors We Work By: New Writing Center Directors’ Labor and Identities” will appear in the collection, WPAs in Transition, to be published by Utah State UP in 2017.

 

Katie Kapurch’s co-edited collection with Kenneth Womack, New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today, is out from Palgrave Macmillan’s Pop Culture, Music and Identity series. The book includes Katie’s chapter “Crying, Waiting, Hoping: The Beatles, Girl Culture, and the Melodramatic Mode”; as well as a chapter co-authored by Katie and Jon Marc Smith, “Blackbird Singing: Paul McCartney’s Romance of Racial Harmony and Post-Racial America.”

 

Steve Wilson has new poems forthcoming in San Pedro River Review and Beloit Poetry Journal.

 

MFA fiction student Graham Oliver interviewed the founder of Dallas-based, translation-focused publisher Deep Vellum, Will Evans, for The Rumpus: http://therumpus.net/2016/08/the-rumpus-interview-with-will-evans/ [archived].

 

MATC alumna Susan Rauch graduated from Texas Tech University with a PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric this month. Her dissertation title is ““Rhetoric and Economics of User Attention in e-Health: How Technology Influences Clinicians’ Decision Making in EHR Clinical Documentation.” Susan will begin work as a full-time instructor in Texas Tech University’s English Department this fall.

 

The first excerpt of Tom Grimes’s new novel appears in the current issue of Narrative: http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-2016/fiction/dynamics-faith-tom-grimes.

 

Stephanie Noll’s organization, Old Books for New Teachers, which helps first-year teachers build classroom libraries, was the spotlighted organization at Backyard Story Night on Sunday, August 29. Backyard Story Night is a monthly storytelling event in Austin that collects donations for a different nonprofit each month. An article about the event, with a mention of Stephanie’s work, can be found here: http://orangemag.co/atx/2016/8/29/austinites-share-their-tales-at-backyard-story-night [archived]. Also, thanks to a successful social media fundraising campaign, Stephanie was able to provide Texas State MFA graduate Abby Minde (who now teaches at KIPP Austin Collegiate) with 20 copies of All American Boys, a young adult novel about police brutality. For this project, Stephanie is collaborating with Badgerdog Literary Publishing, Inc., an Austin-area program that places writers in schools. Abby’s students will read All American Boys and then participate in several writing workshops with prompts and activities connected to the text.

 

English DepartmentMiscellanyAugust 15, 2016
Congratulations:

 

The Office of Equity and Access has selected Geneva Gano’s proposal, “Emily Hobson Public Lecture and Classroom Visits on ’Lavender/Red: Liberation/Solidarity in the Gay/Lesbian Left’” to receive funding in the amount of $1,100.00. In October, Ms. Hobson will visit Professor Gano’s fall grad class to talk about the Women’s liberation movement and women’s literature, and will also give a public talk.

 

Susan Morrison’s Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife won the Words on Wings Book Award for young adult fiction, a Literary Classics Top Honors Award 2016: http://www.clcawards.org/2016_Award_Books.html.

 

MARC graduate student Kristin Milligan, who completed her degree this August, has been hired as the Associate Director of the Learning Center at East Central College in Union, Missouri.

 

English majors Bianco Beronio, Devin Baumann, Thomas Gresham (who graduated Spring 2016), Michael Salinas, and Julia Whitmore each presented talks on Tolkien at Mythcon 47, the annual meeting of the Mythopoeic Society, held in San Antonio this August. Rob Tally also presented at the convention, discussing “Tolkien’s Red Dragons: Fantasy and Marxist Literary Criticism,” as well as taking part in a roundtable on teaching Tolkien.

 

Aimee Roundtree’s research on how the autism community uses Twitter for advocacy was accepted for presentation at the Center for Disease Control’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media, taking place this August in Atlanta. Her work, “#TweetLikeANeurotyical: Understanding Diagnosis Attitudes and Experiences of the Autism Community Online,” situates hashtags used by the community as a form of linguistic reclamation similar to other minority groups.

 

William Jensen’s debut novel, Cities of Men, was sold to Turner Publishing. The book should be published in either summer or fall of 2017.

 

In April 2016, Joe Falocco was invited to deliver a presentation on teaching Shakespeare in the twenty-first century at the Universidad Autonoma de Hidalgo in Pachuca, Mexico as part of the 2016 Festival Internacional del Imagen. He spoke to an audience comprised of hundreds of undergraduates and Festival attendees. While in Pachuca, Joe was also interviewed by a local radio station.

 

MFA poetry student Meg Griffitts’ poem “How To Return Home” will be featured in the fall issue of Hypertrophic, which comes out in September.

 

Rob Tally’s essay “The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Middle-earth: Tolkien, Cinema, and Literary Cartography” appears in the collection Topographies of Popular Culture, edited by Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela.

Congratulations:

Emelia Rae Salzmann was born on June 9th at 7:13 p.m., weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz. and measuring 20 inches long. Mother Alicia Salzmann and baby are both doing well.

 

Kitty Ledbetter’s article titled “Periodicals for Women” has been published in the Routledge Companion to Victorian Periodicals. She recently attended a book launch at the University of Greenwich for contributors to the volume. While in the UK she also conducted research at the British Library and presented a paper titled “Cultural Value and Essay Competitions in Victorian Women’s Periodicals” at a conference held by Plymouth University Nineteenth-Century Studies on The Operation and Representation of ‘Judgement’ in 19th-Century Cultures.

 

Marilynn Olson gave a talk entitled “Billy Whiskers (1902-1930): Nation-Building in an Age of Change” to the graduate students in children’s literature at Beijing Normal University on June 3rd.  BNU is a major center for children’s literature in China, and the visit included a round-table discussion and significant interaction with thesis students.  On June 4th she attended the 3rd biennial US-China Symposium in Qingdao (also the first international children’s literature symposium, since representatives from Japan, Taiwan, and Australia were invited), giving another presentation “Some examples of the use of theories about cognition and cognitive distribution in The Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan (2013).

 

A committee comprised of Children’s Lit. scholars Marilynn Olson, Teya Rosenberg, Katie Kapurch, and Graeme Wend-Walker has been successful in its bid for Texas State to host the 2018 annual Children’s Literature Association Conference. The conference, which draws scholars from around the world, will be held in San Antonio in June 2018. It will be themed around “springs and rivers.”

 

Katie Kapurch’s article, “Something Else Besides a Daughter?: Maternal Melodrama Meets Postfeminist Girlhood in Tangled and Brave,” appears in the latest issue of The Lion and the Unicorn.

 

Mark Busby’s “McMurtry’s Best,” which appears in the July 2016 Texas monthly, is a companion piece to Skip Hollandsworth’s profile of Larry McMurtry at 80. Mark discusses his list of McMurtry’s six best books in addition to Lonesome Dove: http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/larry-mcmurtrys-best-books/.

 

Enkay Iguh (B.A. in English, Texas State, 2013; MFA in Creative Writing, NYU, 2015) has been named a 2016 NYC Emerging Writers Fellow by The Center for Fiction: http://www.centerforfiction.org/forwriters/grants-and-awards/?mc_cid=a4162db5cd&mc_eid=3c0df9a291.

Congratulations:

The following English faculty were promoted / granted tenure this year: Suparno Banerjee, Joseph Falocco and Scott Mogull were tenured and promoted to Associate Professor; Pinfan Zhu and Octavio Pimentel were promoted to Professor.

 

Teya Rosenberg represented the department and university at the 43rd Annual Children’s Literature Conference in Columbus, OH, June 9-11, 2016. She presented a paper, “The Mythical, the Magical, the Racial: Considering Structure and Genre in American Born Chinese” and began her duties as Vice-President/President-Elect of the Association. Also in attendance and presenting were Texas State English department alumni Beth Pearce, currently visiting assistant professor at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; and Elissa Myers, currently working on her doctorate at CUNY Graduate Center.

 

John Blair’s short story manuscript White Sands was selected by judge Amy Hempel as the one finalist for this year’s AWP Grace Paley Prize. In praising the collection, Hempel wrote “Dusty, venom-soaked lives, relying on motorcycles and trucks to speed them towards fates as welcoming as a cinderblock wall at eighty miles per hour.  The reckless couple who connect some of these stories rely on ‘hard cash, hard-earned’ and, whether hiding or chasing, have a close and uncomfortable relationship with the natural world.  Even ‘love bugs’ arrive as a plague.  Risks are taken throughout, starting with the opening story—a harsh beauty—that sets the tone for a collection of stories as lyrical as they are deadly.” The prize’s winner and finalist will be announced on the AWP website soon and in the September issue of the Writer’s Chronicle.

 

Steve Wilson and MFA poetry student Meg Griffitts took part in a discussion of the Beat Generation sponsored by KUT radio and recorded live for the “Views & Brews” series: http://kutpodcasts.org/views-and-brews/vb-the-beat-generation.

 

Thanks to the following faculty who served on Honor’s thesis committees this past year: Twister Marquiss, Jon Marc Smith, Susan Morrison, Deborah Balzhiser, Anne Winchell, Victoria Smith, Lindy Kosmitis, Elvin Holt, and Stephanie Noll.

 

Recent MARC graduate Edward Santos Garza has published a book review, “Celebrating the Hyphen,” in Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Discussing Latinx icons such as Selena and Ritchie Valens, Garza’s review concerns Reclaiming Poch@ Pop: Examining the Rhetoric of Cultural Deficiency, by Cruz Medina: http://enculturation.net/celebrating-the-hyphen [archived].

 

Jo Jarl – one of the first two graduates of the MATC program, in 2001 – has retired after 13 years as a tech writer and editor for IBM and IBM Tivoli.

Congratulations:

MFA poetry student Autumn Hayes’ poem “Sieges” has been accepted by The Seattle Review.

 

Graeme Wend-Walker has graduated from the Texas State PD Citizen Police Academy. This semester-long program involved extensive training in police procedures, including criminal law and the penal code; emergency management and first responder training, including response to active shooter events; campus mental health; certification in CPR; crime scene investigation; personal defense and krav maga; and the use of firearms and tasers.

 

MATC alumna Susan Rauch successfully defensed her dissertation last month.  Susan completed doctoral studies in Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication & Rhetoric Program. Her dissertation title is “Rhetoric and Economics of User Attention in e-Health: How Technology Influences Clinicians’ Decision Making in EHR Clinical Documentation.”

 

Chris Margrave recently presented his paper “Curators of the Absurd: Contemporary Comedians as Prophets of Confrontation and Jesters of Delight” at the American Literature Association Conference, held in San Francisco on May 27.

 

Susan’s Morrison article on “Six trailblazing medieval women” appears in the latest issue of the BBC’s History Extra: http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/trailblazing-medieval-women.

 

MFA fiction student Allison Grace Myers presented her paper “A Liberated Religion: The Black Church in Beloved” at the American Literature Association Conference, held in San Francisco this past May.

 

MATC alumnus David Hernandez has accepted a position with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s Office of Social Services, in Austin. David will help implement a Leadership and Professional Development Program, analyze federal and state policies to determine changes to the Electronic Benefit Transfer program, and propose revisions to the Texas Administrative Code.