English Department

Miscellany

November 9, 2009

Congratulations:

Miriam Williams has accepted an invitation to join the editorial review board of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, a top journal in the field of Technical Communication.

An in-depth interview with Jaime Mejia appears in Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies.  The editors of the book, Keith Gilyard and Victor Taylor, interviewed fourteen "leading figures" in composition and rhetoric.  Other interviewees include Louise Weatherbee Phelps, Jack Selzer, Steven Mailloux, Michel Bérubé, and C. Jan Swearingen.

On November 4, Graeme Wend-Walker was interviewed by KTSW’s news program, “In the Public Interest," speaking on the state of children’s literature. The interview aired Sunday Nov. 8 at 9 am, Wednesday Nov. 11 at 12 pm, and could be heard online at www.ktsw.txstate.edu.

During the Writing Center's recent 25th-anniversary celebration, the Marketing team for Texas State made a video they have now posted on Texas State's YouTube website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSFcaIEKRFo.

Four students from the English Department read papers at the recent International Research Conference for Graduate Students, held at Texas State: Parish Conkling (MA Literature), Chrishaun "Sique"Keller (MATC), Whitney Oldfather (MA Literature), and Justin Tucker (MARC).  Graeme Wend-Walker served as moderator and judge for the panel.

Patsy Pohl was among those honored in late October by President Trauth at the university's annual retirement celebration.

Two poems by MFA poetry student Heather Robinson, "Wanderung" and "Snow-covered field with a harrow (After Van Gogh)," have been accepted for publication by Bare Root Review.

As part of this year's Common Experience events, poets John Blair, Ogaga Ifowodo, Roger Jones, Kathleen Peirce, Miles Wilson and Steve Wilson read their poetry to a packed house in the Honors Forum on November 4.

Upcoming Events:

On November 12, from 3:30 to 4:30, the Writing Center will host a new project called "Intercambio," a language exchange at which students can practice another language.