News of Note May 2019
The latest issue of Interim was devoted in part to Sasha Steensen’s work. The issue includes six poems by Sasha, as well as an essay she wrote on Magurerite Duras. The issue also includes a book review of her latest […]
News of Note: March 2019
A poem from Dan Beachy-Quick’s new project, “Canto,” has been accepted by TriQuarterly. He also be participated in a conversation about John Keats and negative capability at the University of Denver. Genesea Carter attended the Spilman Symposium on Issues in Teaching […]
News of Note Week of January 21
Leslee Becker has been named a Finalist in the Great Midwestern Fiction Contest for her story, “The Grotto.” Mark Bresnan wrote about compensation and contingent labor for Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/guest-post-how-was-your-semester In the on-going life of NOS (disorder, not otherwise […]
News of Note for November
The Community Literacy Center was featured in a podcast on KCSU. “On this episode, [Christian Rhea, digital director in VP Research Office] sat down with the Director of the Community Literacy Center, Tobi Jacobi, and one of the center’s [former] interns, […]
News of Note Weeks of October 22 and 29
Ricki Ginsberg was elected President-Elect of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN). She will be organizing the 2020 ALAN Workshop, which will involve 80+ young adult authors. The Last Panther, by […]
News of Note Week of October 15
Greetings from the Indian Ocean! Andrew Altschul sends salutations from Semester at Sea. The MV World Odyssey is docked in Mauritius today, setting sail tonight for Cochin, India. You can follow their progress in real-time at www.marinetraffic.com. And the students […]
News of Note Week of October 8
Aparna Gollapudi presented a paper titled “The Other Eighteenth Century Child: Personhood and Property in Locke’s Two Treatises and Defoe’s Fiction” at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Cheyenne on October 4th. Kristina Quynn presented at &NOW, Notre Dame, on a […]
News of Note Week of September 3
Dan Beachy-Quick’s essay ”These Flames and Generosities of the Heart: Emerson in the Writing Workshop,” is included in the new collection Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, out from MLA. He also has a long poem in the […]
News of Note Week of August 27
A section from Dan Beachy-Quick’s essay on Marcel Duchamp and Hell is being featured at The Humble Essayist: https://www.the-humble-essayist.com The opening sections of a long abecedarian are up on the wonderful new journal from Split/Level Texts: http://splitleveltexts.com/journal Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker and […]
News of Note, Week of August 20
Welcome back! Lynn Badia’s co-edited collection, Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather and Atmosphere in the Anthropocene, is under contract with Routledge. It is scheduled for publication in 2019. Anthony Becker and Tatiana Nekrasova-Becker recently had their research article, titled “Investigating the […]