English Department

Miscellany

23 June 2008

Congratulations:

Roger Jones' new poetry collection, Are We There Yet?, has been published by the Texas Review Press, and is now available through the Texas A&M Press Consortium: http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2008/jones.htm.

Graduate students Marcus Piazzola (MA Lit.) and Gwen Templin (MARC) volunteered their services as conference hosts and session chairs at the May International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, hosted by the University of Texas-Austin.

Stephanie Noll will participate in Texas State's Technology Integration Workshop this coming August, during which she will build a new TRACS site focused on teaching resources for our TAs.

Mark Busby has been named the Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University-San Marcos.  For more on Mark and the professorship, read the News Service story at http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2008/06/suppleprof061208.html.

Upcoming Events:

Students who participated in the 2008 Creative Writing Camp, sponsored by the Writing Center, will give a reading of their work at the Katherine Anne Porter House in Kyle on June 27, starting at 7 PM.

Kathleen Peirce, along with novelist Sheila Kohler, will read as part of the Arts@St. Georges program to be held in the sanctuary of St. George's Episcopal Church on June 28 at 7p.m.  St. Georges is located at 4301 N. IH 35 at the corner of I-35 and Crestwood. For more information call 473-2373 or visit www.sgchurch.org.