Aaron Milstead, English Department Adjunct Faculty
Congrats to Aaron Milstead for recent publications in short stories:
"Identical, Only Diffferent" in Issue One of Candidum: Fiction and Poetry (link provided to online access of the story http://candidum.webs.com/milsteadidentical.htm
"A Succession of Nearly Identical Ripples" in Issue Twenty-nine of Death Head Grin (link provided to online access of the story http://www.deathheadgrin.com/11_11/id458.htm
Sarah Sampietro, summa cum laude graduate
Sarah Sampietro, who graduated summa cum laude this past December-with a B.A. in history, a second major in Spanish, and a minor in international studies-has had an article published in Edinboro University's Visions and Revisions: An Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Journal (Volume IV, 2011).The article is entitled "The Kilmichael Controversy: When History, Emotions, and Identity Intersect" and is a revision of a paper Sarah wrote for honors credit in HIS 312 (Ireland since 1845) in the fall of 2009.
Sarah is an exemplary young woman and an outstanding example of the kind of graduate SFA can produce.
Mark Sanders, Professor and English Department Chair
Dr. Sanders has three poems nominated for a Pushcart Prize; they are:"The Slope," first published in Louisiana Literature
"Anecdote of the Horses," first published in The Midwest Quarterly
"Cold Front, September," first published in The Midwest Quarterly
And a review of Conditions of Grace: New and Selected Poems will appear in a forthcoming issue of Prairie Schooner.
Joe Lansdale, English Department Writer-in-Residence
Joe's book, Edge of Dark Water has been named Editor's Pick in Publishers Weekly's Spring Announcements issue this week! See the review..........EDGE_OF_DARK_WATER_PW.pdf
Christine McDermott, Assistant Professor of English
Kudos to Christine McDermott. She's had a piece of creative nonfiction, "Swallowed" (about her grandmother who got married in a whale), picked up by Sliver of Stone, an online journal. http://www.sliverofstone.com/SOS_August_2010.htmlJoe Lansdale, English Department Writer-in-Residence
THE BIG BLOW may be heading to the screen. Please see the link below. Good luck, Joe, and congrats ahead of production! http://collider.com/oren-moverman-the-big-blow/143507/Dr. Stephen R. Taaffe, History Professor
I thought you'd like to know that Steve Taaffe's fifth book, Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II (Kansas, 2011) was the focus of a prominent and very positive review in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday, January 12. You can see the on-line version of the review on the Journal's website at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020455230457711476291538888.htmlStudent News - English Department
Congratulations to Kelsey Treusdell, one of our linguistics minor graduates; she was awarded a multi-year Associate Instructorship toward the study of the MA degree in the Hispanic Linguistics program of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. Associate instructors teach three courses in the department per academic year, receive tuition remissions, and receive a stipend. According to her letter of acceptance, due the strength of her application, they want her to start this summer.Dr. Juan Carlos Ureña, Assistant Professor of Spanish
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Juan Carlos Ureña for the acceptance of his book: Trovar: Memoria poética de la canción hispanoamericana, for publication by the University of Costa Rica Press! This work examines the relationship between poetry and music from medieval time to the present in Spain and Latin America.Joe Lansdale, English Department Writer-In-Residence
Joe's short story, "Night They Missed the Horror Show," is included in the two volume set of The Century's Greatest Horror Stories, edited by John Phelan. The editor chose one story for each year; Joe's story represents 1988.English Associate Professor Ken Untiedt
His review of Cowboy's Lament: A Life on the Open Range, by Frank Maynard (and edited by Jim Hoy), was published in the Fall 2011 Great Plains Quarterly. (For those interested, Frank Maynard is credited with writing the lyrics to the popular cowboy song, "Streets of Laredo," also known as "The Cowboy's Lament.")
Copies of the Ken's sixth book for the Texas Folklore Society also just arrived. It's called Hide, Horn, Fish, and Fowl: Texas Hunting and Fishing Lore, PTFS LXVII.