Each month during the academic year, we assemble a newsletter of the department’s recent publications, presentations, announcements, and awards.
We’re happy to recognize the recent successes in research, scholarship, and creative activity outlined below.
Want to catch up on past successes or to find future announcements? Visit our archive of monthly newsletters Reading Matters as well as related blog posts.
Have news to report? Email us at english@ksu.edu.
— Karin Westman, Department Head
Publications
Traci Brimhall and Adam Ahlers, “Using Learner-Generated Poetry to Help Students Understand Recent Scientific Literature.” Natural Sciences Education. 29 Sept. 2023: https://doi.org/10.1002/nse2.20127
Phillip Marzluf, Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. Open access available at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75924
Shirley Tung, “Elysian Landscapes and Cultural Self-fashioning in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters from Turkey and Italy.” Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, vol. 61, no. 3, 2021, pp. 449-468. https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2021.a903389
Naomi Wood, “East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C.S. Lewis, by Warwick Ball” (review), Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, 2023, pp. 103-106.
Presentations
Traci Brimhall, “Crafting Community through Poetry” (panelist). Kansas Book Festival. Topeka, KS. 16 Sep 2023.
“Well-Baked Words” (panelist). Kansas Book Festival. Topeka, KS. 16 Sep 2023.
“Pocket Poetry Field Guide” (workshop). the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow. Eureka Springs, AR. 25 Sept. 2023
Readings at:
- Louisa May Alcott Center for the Arts, Kansas City, MO. 9 Sept. 2023
- Ashland Public Library, Ashland, KS. 10 Sept. 2023
- Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS. 21 Sept. 2023
- Ketchupedia Poetry Jam, Kansas City, MO. 30 Sept. 2023
Dan Hoyt, “Sustaining the Small Press” (panelist). Kansas Book Festival. Topeka, KS. 16 Sep 2023.
Michele Janette, “Literature of Crisis” (moderator). Kansas Book Festival. Topeka, KS. 16 Sep 2023.
Mary Kohn spoke on internships and the Lost Towns Project. Pottawatomie County Museum Association. Pay Station Museum, Marysville, KS. 11 Sept. 2023.
Tom Sarmiento, “Drawing on Your Power to Be an Everyday Peace Builder” (invited panelist). K-State First Book Event, Department of Applied Human Sciences. 21 Sept. 2023.
Research and Creative Activity from Alumni
Brennan Bestwick (MA ’16) has published the poem “Goat Glanding” in KANSAS Magazine (vol. 28, no. 5, 2023).
Dennis Etzel, Jr (MA ’06) moderated a panel on “Poetry, Collaboration, and Therapy” at the Kansas Book Festival in Topeka on September 16.
Leela Prasad (MA ’93), professor of religious studies, and gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Duke University, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow. Read the profile by the K-State Alumni Association at https://k-state.com/news/2023leelaprasad.php.
Adrien Kade Sdao (MA ’23) has published “loop theory” (a poem) in Consilience Journal: https://www.consilience-journal.com/issue-14-loop-theory
Announcements
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