Summer 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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Cover for Anne Longmuir's John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer (Routledge, 2025) Each month during the academic year, we assemble a newsletter of the department's recent publications, presentations, announcements, and awards. The issue for September showcases a greater range of research, scholarship, and creative activity that our faculty and students have shared beyond Kansas … Continue reading Summer 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Found Object: SAGE Welcome Back Party, August 2014

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Location: Department digital archivesObject: Photo of new and returning graduate students and faculty at the SAGE Welcome Back Party, 22 August 2014Observations: 1) Looking for photos of Professor Emeritus Jerry Dees surfaced other photos from years past, including this one from August 2014 that features an array of graduate students and faculty assembled in Professor … Continue reading Found Object: SAGE Welcome Back Party, August 2014

Meet the New Grad Students

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The new Kansas State University English graduate students come from all over the world — all parts of Kansas, too. Please join us in welcoming them and wishing them a happy and productive first semester. Name: Mary AdeyemoHometown: Osun State, NigeriaAlma mater: University of Ibadan, NigeriaAreas of study: Composition and rhetoric, multimodal discourse, pragmatics, discourse analysisPlease tell us something … Continue reading Meet the New Grad Students

Projects from ENGL 745 “Indigenous Film”

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Today’s blog brings you two examples of creative work that mesh the visual and theoretical in compelling ways. These two pieces — a documentary film/personal research reflection filmed and edited by Elizabeth Elliott (MA ‘25) related to the Kansas Land Treaties project and a glossary/zine/theory/creative writing hybrid collaboratively created by Aidia Kite (BA '24) and … Continue reading Projects from ENGL 745 “Indigenous Film”

Found Object: Summer Plans 2024

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Location: ECS BuildingObject: White board on GTA office doorObservations: 1) During the year, this white board (a companion to the one on the 2nd floor) has been gathering responses from graduate students who have offices in ECS. Its most recent question: "What are your summer plans?" 2) Answers range from enjoying media in various forms … Continue reading Found Object: Summer Plans 2024

Found Object: 2024 M.A. Projects

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Location: Social media.Object: Project Titles,  graduating M.A. students.Observations: 1) Each spring, for many years, we displayed the M.A. Project and Thesis titles of our graduating M.A. students at our annual spring Awards Banquet.  2) Last year and this year, even as we've resumed an in-person awards celebration, we're continuing our newer (Covid-inspired) tradition: with the … Continue reading Found Object: 2024 M.A. Projects

Found Object: Grad School Commencement, May 2015

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Location: Department digital archivesObject: Photo of graduating English MA students, Class of 2015Observations: 1) Tomorrow (Friday May 10) brings the Spring 2024 commencement ceremony for the Graduate School, an event which will include a number of our current graduate students. 2) In honor of that occasion, we're flashing back nine years to May 2015 and … Continue reading Found Object: Grad School Commencement, May 2015

April 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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Cover for Mark Croby's William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), co-edited with Josephine McQuail.  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 … Continue reading April 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

2023-2024 Annual Awards

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Program for the 2023-2024 Annual Awards Celebration Earlier this evening we gathered at the Alumni Center and online to celebrate the success of students and faculty. Like last year, we exchanged the sit-down banquet from the pre-COVID days for a less formal reception which allowed for more conversation -- and an earlier evening. We're grateful … Continue reading 2023-2024 Annual Awards

From the Archive: Resting in Peace: Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Keeps Sharon Tate Away from the Action

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Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 500+ posts.  While some of you may have been with us from the start (thank you, loyal readers!), others may have joined us more recently. So, we're highlighting periodically some of the posts that … Continue reading From the Archive: Resting in Peace: Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Keeps Sharon Tate Away from the Action