February 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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Cover for West Branch, no. 104, Winter 2024:Digital Issue, which includes an essay by Traci Brimhall.  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 … Continue reading February 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

From the Archive: Comics in Technical Communication

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Screenshot from Han Yu’s “Response to ‘Make COVID-19 Visuals Gross’” for the Medical Humanities Blog (28 May 2020). Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 450+ posts.  While some of you may have been with us from the start (thank you, loyal readers!), others may have joined us more recently. As a result, … Continue reading From the Archive: Comics in Technical Communication

Cultural Studies Hosts Symposium on The Midwest

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Dr. Monica Trieu, keynote speaker for the 33rd Annual Cultural Studies Symposium (23 Feb 2024) K-State’s 33rd Annual Cultural Studies Symposium culminated on Friday, February 23rd with a lecture by Dr. Monica Trieu, a professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at Purdue University. Titled "Midwestern Asian Americans, Racialized Visibility, and Internalized Racism," the … Continue reading Cultural Studies Hosts Symposium on The Midwest

The Annual Career Seminar

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Feedback from one of the participants at our 20th Annual Career Seminar (21 Feb 2024) On Wednesday February 21, 2024, we held our 20th Annual Career Seminar for undergraduate and graduates students in English.   Back in 2005, this event began as a way to empower our English majors and MA students who expressed concern … Continue reading The Annual Career Seminar

Bringing Blake’s Illuminated Books to Life

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Viewing prints of William Blake's illustrated poetry in Hale Library's Special Collections Nestled on the top floor of Hale, Special Collections welcomes brave wanderers (and ENGL 362 "British Survey II" classes). The subject of the day’s undertaking on February 19? William Blake. After a quick—and well-deserved—plug from the archivists, we were off! (For those wondering, … Continue reading Bringing Blake’s Illuminated Books to Life

From the Archive: Love Letters to Mary Shelley

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Mark Crosby presents on Mary Shelley's manuscript for Frankenstein (14 February 2018) Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 450+ posts.  While some of you may have been with us from the start (thank you, loyal readers!), others may have joined us more recently. As a result, we're highlighting some of the posts … Continue reading From the Archive: Love Letters to Mary Shelley

What Makes My Heart Beat: AWP 2024

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Catherine Strayhall (BA '17) in Kansas City for AWP 2024 The bar in the Crossroads Arts District is at capacity. Servers bustle hurriedly amongst the standing room crowd. Those who arrived late are out of luck. The people in the bar aren’t there because the hometown team plays in the Super Bowl in a few … Continue reading What Makes My Heart Beat: AWP 2024

Found Object: Sigma Tau Delta Induction, c. 2009

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Photo of Sigma Tau Delta Induction, c. 2009 Location: Box of Sigma Tau Delta materials in ECS 108D Object: Photo of Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony, c. 2009Observations: 1)  Since 1998, K-State English has sponsored a chapter of the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta. Our chapter, Alpha Theta Eta, hosts one or two … Continue reading Found Object: Sigma Tau Delta Induction, c. 2009

Winter 2023-2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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Cover for Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 3, Winter 2023-2024, which includes an article by Mark Crosby.  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 … Continue reading Winter 2023-2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Maybe We’re All Bottoms!

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Screenshot from the film Bottoms (2023) Today we share the fifth of six pieces of public writing selected for publication from an assignment in ENGL 801 “Graduate Studies in English” — and the second selection from Section A of ENGL 801, taught this fall by Cameron Leader-Picone: a piece of public scholarship (700-1,000 words) which … Continue reading Maybe We’re All Bottoms!