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, “Amor Fati” (poem), The Nature of Our Times: Poems for Science, 2025: https://natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/amor-fati/
“Ghost Ranch as Color Theory” and “Practice” (poems). Harvard Advocate, Vol 159, No. 3, Fall 2024, pp. 23, 7.
Mark Crosby, William Blake’s Songs of Innocence. Bodleian Library Publishing, 2024.
Philip Nel, “Meditations in purple.” Oxford University Press Blog 27 Jan. 2025: https://blog.oup.com/2025/01/meditations-in-purple/
Presentations
Cydney Alexis and Theresa Merrick Cassidy, “Can AI Join the Team? Collaborating with GenAI in Higher Education” (invited talk). AI in Engineering Education Faculty Learning Community. Kansas State University. 12 Dec. 2024
Traci Brimhall, “The Lost Poems of Amelia Earhart” (invited talk). Earhart Hangar Museum (online). 16 Jan 2025.
Reading from Love Prodigal. Volta Reading Series, Replay Lounge, Lawrence, KS. 15 Jan 2025.
Mark Crosby, “William Blake’s Apprentice Copperplates.” Seeing the Unseen in Oxford University Collections, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England, 2 Dec. 2024: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/dec24/seeing-the-unseen
Karin Westman, “‘These fragments I have shored against my ruin’: Scaling Literary History” (roundtable on “Saving Literary History”). Modern Language Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. 11 Jan 2025.
“Two (or Three) Editors are Better Than One: The Benefits of a Co-Editor Model for Peer-Reviewed Journals” (roundtable for Council of Editors of Learned Journals). Modern Language Association Conference. New Orleans, LA. 10 Jan 2025.
Awards
Anuja Madan received a Faculty Development Award from the Office of Research from K-State’s Office of Research for travel to Spain and the 27th Biennial International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress to present research on ecofeminism and Indian children’s picture books.
Tom Sarmiento was recognized as Professor of the Week at the January 29 men’s home basketball game.
Announcements
Isabelle Greenemeyer (BA ’28) and Mary Adeyemo (MA ’26) are newly selected K-State Libraries Student Ambassadors.
On December 20, 2024, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jonathan Holden passed away. Visit the department announcement for more information.
Featured in Media
Traci Brimhall was in conversation with Kaye McIntyre of Kansas Public Radio on 7 Jan 2025.
Research and Creative Activity from Alumni
Tolu Daniel (MA ‘23) published “Exodus” (essay) in the Hayden’s Ferry Review, Volume 75 (2025).
The NoMad published “Storms, Maybe a Metaphor for Us” (essay) by Kase Johnstun (MA ‘01) and nominated it for a Pushcart Prize.
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