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, “Poetry grows here: how seeds planted at the State Fair can help nourish Kansans” (article). Kansas News Leader. 24 Sept. 2024.
“Museum of Fire” (poem). Vox Populi. 16 Sept. 2024.
Presentations
Traci Brimhall, “Memento Mori: Poetry and Prints” (emcee and reader). Flight Crew Coffee. Manhattan, KS. 3 Oct. 2024
“The Lost Poetry of Amelia Earhart.” Earhart Hangar Museum. Atchison, KS. 18 Sept. 2024.
“Poetry Harvest: Poems for the State Fair.” Kansas State Fair. Hutchinson KS. 7 Sept. 2024: https://www.kansascommerce.gov/program/kcaic/poet-laureate/state-fair-poems/
Elizabeth Dodd hosted a reading by authors from the anthology Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, 23 September 2024. Zoom.
Mary Kohn and Lisa Tatonetti, “Creator Gives us Language: Sharing the Story of Kaánze íe Rematriation.” The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. San Antonio, TX. 29 Sept. 2024.
Lilliana Lamagna (BA ’25), “‘You’re just making up sounds!’ Resisting Western Stereotypes of Asian Americans in Everything Everywhere All At Once.”The 53rdAnnual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. San Antonio, TX. 29 Sept. 2024.
Awards
Announcements
Karin Westman has been appointed to the Program Committee for the Modern Language Association by the MLA Executive Council for a three-year term (2024-2027).
Research and Creative Activity from Alumni
Kase Johnstun (MA ‘01) has published the novel Cast Away (Torrey House Press, 2024).
David Murphy (MA ‘08) has published a collection of poems, The Natural World(Dreameyrie Press, 2024).
Jefferson Storms’ (MA ’22) has received paper has the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature’s David Diamond Student Writing Prize for his paper “‘An Antydote for the Brute’: Apocalyptic Imagination in Farmer Hiram on the World’s War.”
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