The Monthly Newsletter of Kansas State University’s Department of English Reading Matters Vol. 35, No. 1 Sept 2020
PUBLICATIONS Communication.” Technical Remember.” What Does it Mean to Communication Quarterly, vol. 29, Remember? University of Exeter • Steffi Dippold and Lauren no. 3, 2020: 222-239. and University of Plymouth, UK. 25 Coats, eds. “Special Issue: June 2020. [PP] Beyond Recovery.” Early “Response to ‘Make COVID-19 American Literature, vol. 55, no. Visuals Gross.’” Medical Humanities • Elizabeth Dodd. Ecopoetry 2, 2020: 297-498. Blog. 28 May 2020. https:// Anthology Reading. Zoom. 27 blogs.bmj.com/medical- August 2020. With Lauren Coats, “Beyond humanities/2020/05/28/response-to- Host. “Ambient Violence: Clear Recovery: Introduction.” Early make-covid-19-visuals-gross/ American Literature, vol. 55, no. Vision to Face Injustice.” Dear 2, 2020: 297-319. Han Yu with Tom Hallaq and America Town Hall Reading Series. Shreepad Joglekar, “Hungry Panelists Todd Boss, Heather Ryan, “That Marooned Thing: Adoptive Heartland: A Multidisciplinary, Allison Hedge Coke, Camille Narratives for a Haudenosaunee Multimedia, Service-Learning Class Dungy. Zoom. 19 August 2020. Purging Stick.” Early American Project.” Journal of Community Host. “Natural Environs: Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2020: Engagement and Higher Education, Considering the More than Human 445-472. vol. 12, no. 2, 2020: 59-76. World.” Dear America Town Hall • Traci Brimhall, “Aubade as Reading Series. Panelists Pam Fuel.” New Yorker 17 Aug. 2020: PRESENTATIONS Houston, Elena Passarello, 55. https://www.newyorker.com/ Elizabeth Bradfield, Arthur Sze. magazine/2020/08/17/aubade-as- [CPP] = Conditional-Perfect Zoom. 20 May 2020. fuel Presentation — a would-have-been canceled by COVID-19. • Gregory Eiselein “Walt Whitman • Jim Machor and Amy Blair and American Jewish Women Poets “Editors' Introduction,” [PP] = Postponed Presentation — of the Nineteenth Century.” Reception: Texts, Readers, delayed until a future date by COVID- 19. American Literature Association Audiences, History, vol. 12, Conference. San Diego, 22 May 2020: 1-4. • Traci Brimhall, reading from 2020. [CPP] • Tom Sarmiento, “In Transit.” Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod “Teaching Alcott: Alcott in Reflection in the Wonderful/ Proximity to Other American Wretched Memories of Racial o Poets in Pajamas Series, 30 Aug. Realists, Regionalists, Romantics.” Dynamics in the Twin Cities, 2020. Chaired Session. American Minnesota series, special feature o Wednesday Night Poetry Series, Literature Association Conference. of The Society Pages, 8 July Copper Canyon Press, 26 Aug. 2020. San Diego, CA. 23 May 2020. 2020. https://thesocietypages.org/ [CPP] specials/in-transit/. • Steffi Dippold. “Deep Surfaces: • Anne Longmuir, “DeLillo and • Naomi Wood, Review of Alisa Gender,” roundtable organized by Clapp-Intyre’s British Hymn Rethinking the Outside of the Book.” Panel organizer: “Mobilizing the the Don DeLillo Society. American Books for Children, 1800-1900: Literature Association Conference. Re-Tuning the History of Margins of the Written Word.” SHARP: The Power of the Written San Diego, CA. 21-24 May 2020. Childhood. Victorian Studies vol. [CPP] 62, no. 2, Winter 2020: 336-338. Word. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 16 June 2020. [PP] • Wendy Matlock, “Obligations of • Han Yu, , “Conceptual Art or Desire: Alison from the Miller’s Readable Contract: The Use of “Speak, Materialities: How Early Indigenous Book Objects Tale and Perrault’s “Little Red Comics in Technical Riding Hood.” 22nd Biennial
Page 1 Congress of the New Chaucer ANNOUNCEMENTS Friday, Sept. 18, 3:30 – 4:30 Society. Durham, U.K. 12-16 July • Cameron Leader Picone (PI) and p.m., Zoom. Applying to 2020. [PP 2022] co-PIs Katy Karlin, Mark Crosby, Graduate Programs in English • Philip Nel and Ada Bieber and Karin Westman, in collaboration Friday, Sept. 25, 3:30 – 4:30 “Willkommenskultur für wen?: with colleagues at the Beach p.m., Zoom. Reading by Multicultural German Picture Books Museum, have received an NEH Kimiko Hahn Exhibitions Planning Grant for Since 1989.” The Child and the Wednesday, Sept. 30, 7:00 – “Making a Statement: Gordon Parks’s Book. Berlin, Germany. 27-29 May 8:00 p.m., Livestream. Gift of Photographs” in Fall 2021. 2020. [PP 2021] Lecture by William • Karin Westman, “Walt Disney Kamkwamba on Ecstasy: Affect, Agency, and the NEWS FROM ALUMNI Monday, Oct. 12, 9:00 a.m. – Natural World in Meg Rosoff’s 3:00 p.m., K-State Student How I Live Now.” Children’s • Miranda Asebedo (BA ’07, MA ‘09) and Bryn Greenwood (BA '92, Union Indigenous People’s Literature Association Conference. Day Bellevue, WA. 18-20 June 2020. MA '95) had their books honored as [CPP] 2020 Kansas Notable Books: https:// Thursday, Oct. 15, 4:00 – 5:00 kslib.info/1446/2020-Notable-Books p.m., Zoom. Lecture by Karin Westman with Sophie Kristin Bluemel Adamson, “Departmental • Dan Hornsby (BA ’12) published Storytelling: How to Make Your his debut novel V ia Negativa (Knopf, Friday, Oct. 16, 3:30 – 4:30 Department More Visible.” ADE 2020), which has received a starred p.m. Zoom. Cultural Studies 2020 MAPS Leadership Institute: review from Publisher’s Weekly and Mini Seminar II recognized by the New York Times The Public Humanities. Zoom. 30 Tuesday, Oct. 20, 7:00 – 8:00 as “New and Noteworthy.” June 2020. p.m., Zoom / Livestream • Vilune Sestokaite (MA ’20) Reading by Poet Laureate Joy published “Tiger King: How America Harjo AWARDS Still Demonizes Aging Women” on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 3:30 – Medium.com (4 Aug 2020): https:// • Traci Brimhall’s “Doctrine of 4:30 p.m., Zoom. Department medium.com/@vses1003/tiger-king- Signatures” (poem) received the Colloquium Cecil Hemley Award from the how-america-still-demonizes-aging- Poetry Society of America, selected women-dade246896df. The essay was Friday, Oct. 30, 3:30 – 4:30 by Sally Wen Mao. Brimhall also first written for Shirley Tung’s ENGL p.m., Zoom. Reading by received the 2020 Annie Dillard 825 “Life Writing” in Spring 2020. Emily Nemens Award for Creative Nonfiction for • Dustin Vann (MA ‘20) and Katie Reading Matters is a monthly her essay “Possession,” sponsored Buhler (BS ‘20 Elem Ed, English publication of the Department of by the Bellingham Review. Minor) received awards from the English, ECS Building, 1612 • Ania Payne received the 2020 Children’s Literature Association. Steam Place, Kansas State Excellence in Teaching Award from Vann received the Graduate Student University, Manhattan, KS 66506 the Department of English. Essay Award at the Master of Arts -6501. Editors: Philip Nel, Karin level for his essay, “‘Sissy that Westman, Wesley Danielson, and • Anne Phillips won this year’s walk!’: RuPaul's Drag Race and the Rhianna Thomas. The deadline Donnelly Award from the Mainstreaming of Drag Culture in for the next issue of Reading Department of English. She will Children’s and Young Adult Matters is September 30, 2020 at hold a Donnelly Chair from 2020 to Literature.” Buhler received the Carol 5 p.m. Central Time. Please send 2022. Gay Award Honor for her essay, your news to Philip Nel via email Phillips is also the 2020 recipient of “Justice for All? Quilting a Literary at
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