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, Love Prodigal. Copper Canyon Press, 2024.
“Eat Your Words: A Poetry Cookbook” (article), Academy of American Poets, 28 Nov 2024: poets.org/text/eat-your-words-poetry-cookbook
Elizabeth Dodd, “Letter to America: Sometime After Pat Cipollone’s Closed-Door Testimony.” Terrain.org2 Dec. 2024: www.terrain.org/2024/currents/letter-to-america-dodd-3/
Philip Nel, How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon, and the Making of a Children’s Classic. Oxford UP, 2024.
Presentations
Traci Brimhall, readings from Love Prodigal: Dusty Bookshelf, Manhattan, KS (19 Nov.); Roundtable Bookstore, Topeka, KS (20 Nov.); The Raven, Lawrence, KS (21 Nov.); and Red Fern Booksellers, Salina, KS (7 Dec).
“Three Poets Laureate in Conversation” (panelist). Miami Book Festival. Miami, FL. 24 Nov 2024.
Abby Knoblauch, “Nothing to Lose: Avoiding Anti-Fat Bias in the Classroom.” Kansas Association of Teachers of English (KATE) Conference. Wichita, KS. 1 Nov. 2024.
Mary Kohn, Lisa Tatonetti, and Charlee Huffman, “‘Creator Gives us Language: Sharing the Story of Kaánze íe Rematriation’: a panel presentation,” New Ways of Analyzing Language Variation. Miami, FL. 7 Nov. 2024.
Philip Nel, “Grounded in Nostalgia: Land, Longing, and the Radical Imagination.” American Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. 15 Nov. 2024.
“How to Draw the World; or, Why I Wrote a Small Book about a Smaller One.” Book event for How to Draw the World: Harold and the Purple Crayon, and the Making of a Children’s Classic. The Rabbit Hole. Kansas City, MO. 8 Nov. 2024.
Awards
Mara Aberle (BA ’26) has won a K-State Research Award from K-State Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research. Her project is on project on medieval and modern poetic receptions of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, and her mentors are Wendy Matlock and Allie Pohler.
Joseph Pondillo (BA ’25, Social Transformation Studies) has received an Undergraduate Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences; Lisa Tatonetti will serve as Joseph’s mentor.Announcements
Seven English majors became new members of our local chapter of the international English honor society, Sigma Tau Delta.
Research and Creative Activity from Alumni
Rebecca Rowe (MA ‘16), Assistant Professor of English at East Texas A&M University, is a founding co-editor of a new peer-reviewed open access journal, the International Journal of Disney Studies. The journal “examines the Walt Disney Company, a media conglomerate that impacts our global culture” and “draws from a variety of academic and industrial lenses, perspectives, methods and fields, while providing a space for scholars to present new research, review current research and comment on wider Disney commodities.”
David Murphy (MA ’08) has published his new murder mystery novel, The Murders in the Endicott Hotel.
Cailin Roles (MA ’19) has published “Visual Metamorphosis and the Struggle for Subjectivity in Kon Satoshi’s Paprika (2006)” on The Society for Animation Studies’ blog as part of its series on visual metamorphosis.
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