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, “After the Divorce” (poem). Meetinghouse, no. 4, 2024, p. 136.
Philip Nel, “Why not use AI to do your homework?” Teachers & Writers Magazine. 15 Oct. 2024: https://teachersandwritersmagazine.org/why-not-use-ai-to-do-your-homework/
Ania Payne, Ronald Orchard, Josh Brewer, and Cassidy Moreau, “Fluid Practices of University-Community Engagement Boundary Spanners at a Land Grant University.” Community-Engaged Scholars, Practitioners, and Boundary Spanners: Identity, Well-Being, and Career Development, special issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, vol. 28, no. 3, 2024, pp. 115-126.
Presentations
Cydney Alexis and Theresa Merrick Cassidy, “Writerly Voice in AI Times: A Three-Faceted Workshop.” jwAi Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Conference. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. 25 Oct. 2024.
“Teaching with AI: Best Practices Examples for Continued Excellence in Teaching.” jointly part of the AI and the Future Symposium and the K-State Teaching and Learning Center’s Professional Development Series. Kansas State University. 16 Oct. 2024.
“Writerly Voice in AI Times.” AI and the Future Symposium, Kansas State University. 15 Oct. 2024.
Traci Brimhall, “Poetry Grows Here” (keynote). Kansas Association for Teachers of English Conference. Wichita, KS. 1 Nov. 2024.
“Micro Memoir: How to Tell True Stories in Tiny Spaces.” Creative Writing Breakout Session, Interhab Conference, Manhattan, KS, 25 Oct. 2024.
“In Praise of Mystery: A Night with Ada Limon.” Introduction and Q&A, Salina, KS. 17 Oct. 2024.
“Marriage Portrait as Color Theory” (poem reading). Museum of Art + Light Preview Night. Manhattan, KS. 12 Oct. 2024.
“3 Fails and a Win: Literary Arts Organizing” (breakout session). Kansas Arts Council Symposium. Salina, KS. 10 Oct. 2024.
Elizabeth Dodd, 25th Anniversary Reading, Terrain.org Reading Series, with panelists Michael Branch, John T. Price, and Laura Jackson (host). Via Zoom. 24 Oct. 2024.
Beth Jones (MA ’25), “In Conversation: What’s It Like To Design a Video Game?” (presentation). Johnson County Public Library. Overland Park, KS. 8 Oct. 2024.
“Creating a Great Main Character” (presentation). Johnson County Public Library. Overland Park, KS. 10 Oct. 2024.
“Let’s Write About Video Games” (workshop). Johnson County Public Library. Overland Park, KS. 12 Oct. 2024.
Philip Nel, “5 thoughts on 6 racist Seuss books.” Invited contribution to roundtable on “Dr. Seuss and Other Racist Classics.” Hx East Asia Community, Heterodox Academy. Via Zoom. 17 Oct. 2024
“Getting Personal: Unlearning Objectivity, Anti-Racism, and Stories We Love” (invited lecture). Wrocław University, Poland. Via Zoom. 16 Oct. 2024.
Ania Payne, “Innovative Approaches to Collecting and Representing Qualitative Data with Community: Digital, Spatial, and Community Writing as Ethnography.” Engagement Scholarship Consortium. Portland, OR (virtual presentation). 9 Oct. 2024.
Tom Sarmiento, “PAHM (Pilipinx American History Month) or FAHM (Filipino American History Month)? A Community Dialogue.” Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program and Kasamahan. University of San Francisco, CA. 29 Oct. 2024.
American Studies Issue Launch, “‘Unsettling Global Midwests’: A Conversation with Editors and Contributors” (invited panelist). Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Department of American Studies. University of Minnesota. Via Zoom. 1 Oct. 2024.
Lisa Tatonetti, “Indigenizing Education: Radical (and Practical!) Collaborations to Restore Erased Indigenous Pasts and Restory Indigenous Presence in Kansas Classrooms and Communities.” Roundtable with Alex Red Corn, Nathan McAlister, Kenneth St. Pierre, Yale Taylor. Western History Association. Kansas City, MO. 26 Oct. 2024.
“Can’t Be Tamed”: Queerness, Camp, and Romantic Refusals in Reservation Dogs.” Western Literature Association Conference. Tucson, AZ. 4 Oct. 2024.
Awards
Announcements
Mariya Vaughan (MA ’11), Assistant Director for K-State First and instructor in English, is now also serving as interim coordinator of K-State’s Spectrum Center.
Research and Creative Activity from Alumni
Lisa Hase-Jackson (MA ’07) has received the Kansas Authors Club’s Nelson Poetry Book Prize for her collection Insomnia in Another Town (Clemson UP, 2024).
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