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, “As seasons change, enjoy the bounties of a poetry harvest. Words nourish us with sensation, memory” (essay). Kansas Reflector, 30 Nov. 2023.
Gregory Eiselein with Jodi Kaus and R.J. Youngblood, “Powercat Financial to Financial Well-Being: Cross-Campus Collaborations to Improve Student Financial Well-Being.” Financial Advising as a Tool for Student Success and Educational Equity. Edited by J.D. Johnson and J.A. Seabold, University of South Carolina and National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2023, pp. 6-11.
Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, Christopher Perreira, and M. Bianet Castellanos, guest editors of and authors of introduction to Unsettling Global Midwests, special issue of American Studies with American Studies International, vol. 62, no. 3, 2023, pp.7–19.
Presentations
Traci Brimhall, presentations at:
- KC Farm School, Kansas City, MO. 2 Dec. 2023
- Johnson County Writer’s Festival, Overland Park, KS. 3-4 Nov. 2023.
Krista Danielson, “In the Beginning, There Was Coyote: Survivance in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water.” Western Literature Association Conference. The Shoshone-Bannock Reservation, Fort Hall, ID. 13 October 2023.
Elizabeth Dodd, Flint Hills Discovery Center “Humanities Hike.” Manhattan, KS. 14 Oct. 2023.
Jordan Dombrowski (MA ’24), Ian Lutz (MA ’24), Sarah Snyder (BS ’24, English Ed), and Delaney Sullivan (MA ’24), “Multi-Ethnic Middle-Grade Readers: Growth, Nourishment, and Development of Diverse Voices In and Out of the Classroom” (panel session). Kansas Association of Teachers and Educations (KATE) Conference. Wichita, KS. 4 Nov. 2023.
Abby Knoblauch, “What to Expect When You’re Expected to Write in College.” Kansas Association of Teachers and Educations (KATE) Conference. Wichita, KS. 3 Nov. 2023.
Mary Kohn, “You Say Tomato, I Say Tomahto: One Hundred Years of Sound Change in Kansas” (invited talk). Ellis County Historical Society. Hayes, KS. 16 Nov. 2023.
Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, “Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning in Queer and Trans Studies: Resource, Idea, and Dream Sharing” (roundtable panelist). National Women’s Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. 27 Oct. 2023.
Lisa Tatonetti and Stephanie Switzky, “Growing Toward the Future: Integrating Indigenous Literature and Film in Your Classroom.” Kansas Association of Teachers and Educations (KATE) Conference. Wichita, KS. 3 Nov. 2023.
Featured in Media
Mary Kohn was quoted in The Washington Post in Danielle Abril, Alyssa Fowers, and Elena Lacey’s “Do you talk more like a millennial or a boomer at work? Take this quiz to find out” (20 Nov. 2023).
Research and Creative Activity from Alumni
105 Meadowlark Reader: A Kansas Journal of Creative Nonfiction nominated Jesse Tyler Lobbs (MA ’16) for a Pushcart Prize for the essay “The Garden of Eden in Concrete” (2023).
Emily Midkiff (MA ’12) talked about her award-winning book Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children for Inside Higher Ed’s Academic Minute (23 Nov. 2023).
Morgan Stone (BA ‘22) published “Working with Student Athletes” in Midwest Voices: The Midwest Writing Center Association Newsletter (Issue 3, 17 Nov. 2023, pp. 5–6).
Catherine Strayhall (BA ’17) published the poem “Dear Kansas” in the current issue of Kansas! Magazine.
Announcements
Thomas Xavier Sarmiento will serve as a faculty advisor /consultant for a Humanities Kansas “Humanities for All” Grant on “Literary Landscapes of Kansas, from the Ground to the Airwaves” (PI: Tina Casagrand Foss, Executive Director, The New Territory magazine).
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