As 2023 comes to a close, we send warm wishes to students, colleagues, and alums with this photo featuring some festive fun at last year's holiday party -- a wonderful winter break to all, and we'll see you in 2024!
Happy Holidays
The “Pretty” Trap
Photo: “Woman Putting on Red Lipstick” by Vitaly Gorbachev. Today we share the fourth of six pieces of public writing selected for publication from an assignment in ENGL 801 “Graduate Studies in English” — and the first selection from Section A of ENGL 801, taught this fall by Cameron Leader-Picone: a piece of public scholarship … Continue reading The “Pretty” Trap
2023 Holiday Card
Natassja (Totty) Norwood (BA '25) shares her research on Gordon Parks with President Linton Each year, we assemble an end-of-year card for our donors and friends, seeking input from our faculty and students -- and, as of 2020, from you, our readers! Below are twelve images that have been popular on our social media platforms … Continue reading 2023 Holiday Card
What Happens to Childless Mothers?
Copies of The Lovely Bones, including the Chinese translation, "蘇西的世界," wait to be read. Today we share the third of six pieces of public writing selected for publication from an assignment in ENGL 801 “Graduate Studies in English”: a piece of public scholarship (700-1,000 words) which tailors an academic paper and its scholarly intervention of … Continue reading What Happens to Childless Mothers?
November 2023 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
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
Resting in Peace: Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Keeps Sharon Tate Away from the Action
Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Today we share the second of six pieces of public writing selected for publication from an assignment in ENGL 801 “Graduate Studies in English”: a piece of public scholarship (700-1,000 words) which tailors an academic paper and its scholarly intervention of 10-12 pages … Continue reading Resting in Peace: Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Keeps Sharon Tate Away from the Action
Mina Harker is More Than Just a Love Interest
Photo collage of letters and documents for Dracula (LegendaryTalesEdit) In ENGL 801 "Graduate Studies in English," a required course for incoming M.A. students, we have always asked our graduate students to develop an original contribution to a current scholarly conversation about a literary or cultural text. Starting in 2020, we added a final writing assignment: … Continue reading Mina Harker is More Than Just a Love Interest
Found Object: Poetry Harvest
Location: Poet Laureate of Kansas social media platformsObject: Poetry Harvest, sponsored by Traci Brimhall, current Poet Laureate of KansasObservations: 1) As part of her outreach to the state of Kansas as its current Poet Laureate, Traci Brimhall issued a call earlier this fall for poems about food and fall in Kansas. 2) As Traci explains … Continue reading Found Object: Poetry Harvest
Materialist Approaches in ENGL 220
Students from the K-State First Year Seminar course ENGL 220 "Fiction into Film" visit the Beach Museum to see the exhibition on "Women Artists in the Era of Second Wave Feminism" This semester, I’ve had the great opportunity to teach ENGL 220 “Fiction into Film” as a First-Year Seminar, where we read literary texts and … Continue reading Materialist Approaches in ENGL 220
Undergrad Student Spotlight: Ainsley Trunkhill
Ainsley Trunkhill (BS '25, English Secondary Education) I submitted my college applications in a Harvard University sweatshirt, with stacks of ACT prep books lined up against my walls and hopes of achieving Rory Gilmore-esque academic prestige. As an intellectually-driven student who grew up surrounded by marketed images of what success looks like for women in … Continue reading Undergrad Student Spotlight: Ainsley Trunkhill
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