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
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
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
Photograph of Fred Moten by Robert Adam Mayer for Harvard Magazine (Jan-Feb 2018) Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 400+ 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 … Continue reading From the Archive: Fred Moten’s Anassignment Letters
From The Prince of Egypt (1998) Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 400+ 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 that have garnered a lot of … Continue reading From the Archive: The Prince of Egypt: The Exodus Story in (Re-)Translation
Cover for the special issue of Unsettling Global Midwests, a special issue of American Studies with American Studies International, vol. 62, no. 3, 2023, co-edited by Tom Sarmiento. 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 … Continue reading November 2023 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Traci Brimhall's poem "Arts & Sciences" appeared in The New Yorker 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 … Continue reading October 2023 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Dennis Etzel, Jr (MA '06) "To Be a Kansas State University Alum (MA 2006)" By Dennis Etzel Jr To look back at the brief two years, not just out of fondness and freedom, but transformation. To be given the privilege of having a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. To realize how much I love teaching. To be … Continue reading Alumni Spotlight: Dennis Etzel Jr
Charlesia McKinney (BA '13) and Francesca Royster (BA '88) Add this book to add to your reading list! Francesca T. Royster (BA '88) has written an amazing memoir, Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance (Abrams, 2023), recounting extended family history as a backdrop for her family's choice to adopt their daughter. … Continue reading Choosing Family
A tree from Over the Garden Wall (Episode 1 “The Old Grist Mill”) Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 400+ 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 … Continue reading From the Archive: Over the Garden Wall is Trying to Scare Your Kids, and That’s Not a Bad Thing
