The Monthly Newsletter of Kansas State University’s Department of English Reading Matters Vol. 27, No. 7. March 2013
PUBLICATIONS Technical Communication. 2013. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-IEEE • Elizabeth Dodd, “House Press, 2013. • Donna Potts, “The Role of Sparrow at Skara Faculty in Financial Exigency Brae.” Ecopoetry: A PRESENTATIONS and Program Closure.” Modern Contemporary American Language Association Anthologyy. Ed. Ann Fisher- • Gregory Eiselein and Jenna Convention. Boston, MA. 5 Wirth and Laura-Gray Street. Brack (with Emily Lehning, Jan. 2013. San Antonio: Trinity Donald Saucier, and Kerry University Press, 2013. 229. Priest), “Student Identity and Joe Sutliff Sanders, the First-Year Learning “Chaperoning Words: Meaning Kase Johnstun, “The Perils of Community.” 32nd Annual -Making in Comics and Picture Writing What You Know.” Conference on The First-Year Books.” Hoge University Creative Nonfiction Magazine Experience. Orlando, FL. 24 School of Arts. Gent, 47 (Winter 2013): 12-13. February 2013. Belgium. 26 Feb. 2013.
Wendy Matlock, “The • Deborah Murray, ‘From 'The AWARDS Feminine Flesh in the Dead’ to the Undead: Disputacione betwyx the Body Teaching British Literature • Kase Johnstun, Third Place and Wormes.” The Ends of the Through the Lens of Twilight.” Award for “The Drought of Body: Identity and Community Southwest/Texas Popular 2012.” Ooligan Press: Write to in Medieval Culture. Ed. Jill Culture and American Culture Publish Creative Nonfiction Ross and Suzanne Akbari Association. Albuquerque, NM. Contest. (Toronto: University of 15 Feb. 2013. Toronto Press, 2013): 260-282. NEWS FROM ALUMNI • Kate Nygren, “Blanche Philip Nel “Wild Things, DuBois and Bewitchment: The • Walter Squire (MA 1993) has Children, and Art: The Life and Magic of Glamour in A just taken a tenure-track job at Work of Maurice Sendak.” The Streetcar Named Desire.” Marshall University in Comics Journal 302 (2013): Southwest/Texas Popular Huntington, WV. 12-29. Culture and American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Shirley F. Tung, “Some 14 Feb. 2013. Friday, March 8, 2013, Union Current Publications.” Restoration: Studies in English • Lúcia Novaes, “Studying the Little Theatre, 4:00 pm. 22nd Literary Culture, 1660-1700 Past: The Office as a Space for Annual Cultural Studies 36.2 (2012): 71-96. Affirmation of Identity in The Symposium. Lecture by Rey Professor’s House.” Southwest/ Chow, Anne Firor Scott Han Yu and Gerald Savage, Texas Popular Culture and Professor of Literature, Duke. eds., Negotiating Cultural American Culture Association. Encounters: Narrating Albuquerque, NM. 15 Feb. Intercultural Engineering and Page 1 Wednesday, March 27th, Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 2013, Union 207, 3:30 pm. Union 227, 3:30 pm. 10th Lecture by Donna Potts on Annual Graduate Student “This Landscape’s Fierce Literature Symposium. Embrace: Francis Harvey and Environmentalism in Ireland.” Friday, May 3, 2013, Alumni Center Ballroom, 10:30 am. Friday, March 29th, 2013, Historian Stephanie Coontz ECS and Union, 10 am. Grad will present a lecture on “Mad Program Visiting Day. Men, Working Girls, and Desperate Housewives: How Friday, March 29th, 2013, Far Have Men and Women Union Little Theatre, 3:30 Come from the 1960s?” pm. Reading by Danielle Evans, fiction writer and Assistant Professor, American University.
Saturday, March 30th, 2013, Flint Hills Room, KSU Staterooms, 8 am. Graduate Student Literature Conference.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013, English/Counseling Services 017, 4:30 pm. Reading Group on Robin Bernstein’s Racial Innocence.
Friday, April 5, 2013, Leadership Studies Town Hall, 4:00 pm. Lecture by Robin Bernstein, author of Racial Innocence.
Friday, April 12, 2013, Union Little Theatre, 3:30 pm. Reading by Susan Jackson Rodgers. Reading Matters is a monthly publication Saturday, April 13, 2013, of the Department of English, 108 ECS Building, Kansas State University, Man- Alumni Center, 7:00 pm. hattan, KS 66506-6501. Editors: Philip Hallows and Horcruxes Ball: A Nel, Cindy Stueder, and Sarah Stueder. Wizard Rock Concert for The deadline for the next issue of Reading Literacy. Matters is March 27, 2013 at 5 p.m. Cen- tral Time. Please send your news to Philip Nel, care of the above address or Wednesday, April 17, Union via email at