Kristin Brighton (BA '97, MA '99) Those who called Manhattan, Kansas, home while they attended Kansas State University might be interested in checking out the new HBO dramedy Somebody Somewhere, starring and executive produced by Bridget Everett, the notoriously over-the-top cabaret singer and comedian who grew up here. As both a K-State English grad and … Continue reading Manhattan Setting for HBO’s Somebody Somewhere
Location: Department digital filesObject: Photo from the Sixth Biennial Conference of Children's Literature in English, Education, and Library Science, 21 April 2018, at the K-State Student Union.Observations: 1) Jacqueline Woodson had just recently received the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award when she was already scheduled to visit to Kansas State. The award followed on previous … Continue reading Found Object: 2018 ChALC Conference Keynote
The fifth annual 48-Hour Film Challenge at Kansas State will kick off on Thursday March 24, 2022 at 5:30 pm in Town Hall at Leadership Studies, back in person for the first time since 2019. If you’re new to the 48-Hour Film Challenge, the premise is simple: get together a team of 4-6 people (no … Continue reading Write. Shoot. Edit. Roll film!
Location: From the English CS Building, looking towards Seaton Hall and Regnier HallObject: Snow DayObservations: 1) Campus was closed today in anticipation of snow, which did indeed arrive as predicted. 2) By afternoon, the 5-6 inches of snow had settled, and the landscape had acquired new contours, leaving visible only the tops of the emerging … Continue reading Found Object: View from ECS
Image from Anuja Madan's article “‘I Am Not an Animal’: Vikram Balagopal’s Psychologization of Hanuman in Simian” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2022) showing Hanuman reconfigured as a gelada baboon. Each month during the academic year, we assemble a newsletter of the department's recent publications, presentations, announcements, and awards. As we … Continue reading February 2022 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Don Hedrick with some of the Missionary Sisters of St. Benedict, in Lutsk, Ukraine, 2006. I want to solve some of your curiosity about the background of the photo of me with nuns (a virtual anomaly, I know), and reach out with an invitation to support relief efforts in Ukraine. This is actually a fairly … Continue reading Thinking of Ukraine
Anita Mihelic (MA '07, right) with Edgar Mihelic (MA '21, left), December 2021 in the English Department Main Office. If you would have told me in 2005 that 15+ years later I would be working at a construction data and software company, I probably would have backed away slowly and found the nearest exit. And … Continue reading Alumni Spotlight: Anita Mihelic
You thought March Madness was just for basketball? Well, think again! There is nothing better than discussing your favorite book with friends! However, these conversations can lead down a competitive path. What better way to defend your favorite book than to vote in a book tournament? This March, the Alpha Theta Eta chapter of Sigma … Continue reading Paperback Pandemonium 2022; or, The English Major’s March Madness
Alexander Hurla (BA '22) Back in 2014 when I graduated from high school (which is somehow getting further and further away!), I joined the Marine Corps, in part to give myself four extra years to determine what I wanted to do with my life. Well, nearly eight years later I found myself entering my senior … Continue reading Undergrad Student Spotlight: Alexander Hurla
On Friday, February 18th, the Literature Track hosted a pre-show event in conjunction with the Manhattan Arts Center’s production of The Book of Will. First staged in 2018 and written by Laurie Gunderson, The Book of Will shows how friendship, not scholarship, motivated Shakespeare’s actor-friends to gather all his plays into a single collection seven … Continue reading #Shakespeare After Shakespeare
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