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

March 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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Traci Brimhall's poetry appears in NELLE, no. 7, 2024.  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? … Continue reading March 2024 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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

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

Spring Preview

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Spring flowers in Manhattan, KS (2023) Welcome to the spring semester! We hope that you are keeping warm and safe as 2024 gets underway. Here are some of the events that we're looking forward to in the months ahead. Please join us for community, creativity, and conversation! All are free but online access requires advance … Continue reading Spring Preview

November 2023 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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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

6,487 Miles from Home: On the Tea Roads in Northern China and Mongolia

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Professor Phillip Marzluf (October 2023) In the first week of October, I traveled throughout Inner Mongolia in China, visiting giant cities of glass and steel, paying my respects at the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, and taking photographs of rural and desert landscapes. I was conducting “in the footsteps” travel research of Western visitors who, in … Continue reading 6,487 Miles from Home: On the Tea Roads in Northern China and Mongolia

October 2023 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

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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