Book History Club's 4th annual book drive will run from April 24 to May 9. Please click here to review donation guidelines.
2016
Prospective graduate students, application deadlines are fast approaching. Spring
2017 Online M.A. applications are due November 1, 2016. Fall 2017 Onsite M.A./Ph.D.
applications are due December 15, 2016. For more information on what Tech has to offer,
see the department's recruitment flyer, or contact the director of graduate studies, Dr. Kanika Batra.
Please join the Literature, Social Justice, and Environment (LSJE) initiative and
the Department of English at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, October 26th in the basement auditorium
(room 001) of the English/Philosophy Building for a Roundtable discussion on Spirituality, Religion, and Climate Change, featuring Katherine Hayhoe, Mark Stoll, and Dennis Covington. This event is free
and open the community. Refreshments and book-signing will follow. Visit the event's
Facebook page to invite others.
Need media support at TTU English? Check out the Media Lab.
Welcome, Eleanor Mode, as our new undergraduate advisor in English, Technical Communication,
and Philosophy! Eleanor can be reached through english.advisor@ttu.edu, at 806.834.8986, or in room 211C.
Faculty and graduate students, join us Wednesday, September 7th, at 12:30 PM in ENG/PHIL
201 for this semester's first LSJE Lunchtime Speaker's Series. This event will feature
catered food and current research from faculty and graduate students associated with
Literature, Social Justice, and the Environment. Dr. Scott Baugh, Associate Professor
of Film/Media Studies, will present "Sustainable 'Developments' in Contemporary Latin
American Political Cinema." Masters student Iracema Quintero will present "Empowering
Others By Empowering One's Self: Mestizo Feminism in Real Women Have Curves."
Yuan Shu has received this year's Faculty International Scholarship Award, one of
the Global Vision Awards offered annually by TTU's Office of International Affairs.
Dr. Shu's selection was based on his promoting international exchange between Asia
and North America, engaging in academic collaborations with partners around the nation
and the world, producing scholarship with national and international implications,
and lecturing and presenting at national and international conferences and institutions
of higher education.
The 48th Comparative Literature Symposium on the theme "Translation/Transnation" is
being held in the English building on Friday and Saturday, April 22-23, 2016. We have
3 keynote speakers and a wonderful array of presentations by faculty and students
from TTU and other universities. Please consider attending a keynote event or a few
sessions to support our students who have worked hard on their presentations. Please
view the symposium's program for dates and times for panels, speakers, and other related events.
Please join us at our annual TTU Department of English Scholarships and Awards Reception
on Thursday, April 21st, at 3:30pm in English 001 to congratulate English undergraduate
and graduate students on their most recent academic achievements. For specifics, see
our program of awardees.
The Comparative Literature program will host the 48th Annual Comparative Literature
Symposium: Translation/Transnation: Languages, Geographies, Genders, on April 22-23,
2016. The symposium's poster includes the CFP for those interested in participating.
April 1-2, Marathon Reading of Harry Potter! Please sign-up to read for 15 or so minutes, and please consider sponsoring readers to support this
community literacy event.
Please join the Texas Tech chapter of the Society for Technical Communication this
Friday from 11-12 in the SUB Senate Room for our International Technical Communication
Panel. The panel will feature Dr. Rich Rice (Associate Professor, Technical Communication),
Dr. Kanika Batra (Associate Professor, Literature), Dr. Bolanle Olaniran (Professor,
Media and Communication Studies), Brandy Bippes (PhD Student, Technical Communication),
and Sophie Frankel and Tim Salau (Technical Communication majors). Please check the
STC Facebook page for updates.
Join us on Wednesday, February 3, at 12:30 PM in ENG/PHIL 201 for food and current
research at this semesters first LSJE Brown Bag. Dr. Sara Spurgeon, co-director for
LSJE, will present "Days of Future Past: History, Memory, and Indigenous Futurism."
Doctoral Student Mike Lemon will present "'And a man-sized job to conquer her': Exploitation
of Women and Land in Mary Austin's Cactus Thorn."
Join us for the launch of the interactive exhibit Wordscape on Monday, January 25, at 2:00 p.m. in the Southwest Collection just outside the Formby Room. The exhibit is part
of the Humanities Center's theme for 2015-2016, Synoptics: Epistemologies of the Observer.
The exhibit exists electronically on a kiosk designed by Dr. Rich Rice's ENGL 5365
New Media/Rhetoric class last summer.
On January 31, the Center's Spring Film Festival, Cin-Optics, opens at the Alamo Drafthouse, with a 6:00 p.m. screening of Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950), preceded by a brief introduction by Wyatt Phillips, Assistant Professor
of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English.
2015
Dr. Rich Rice guest co-edited the December 2015 special issue of Computers and Composition, 38(Part B). The issue investigates topics in global communication, which supports TTU's
Quality Enhancement Plan (http://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/qep), and is the topic of a course Dr. Rice is teaching this summer (ENGL5381). See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/87554615/38/supp/PB for titles and abstracts.
Professor of Creative Writing Jill Patterson is one of 11 faculty members from across
the campus selected as an Integrated Scholar for 2014-2015. The Provost's announcement
notes that “an Integrated Scholar consistently promotes active learning and infuses
the results of their research and scholarship in courses and other learning experiences.”
TTU PhD in Medieval Irish literature and feminist and gender studies Dr. Diana Dominguez,
Associate Professor of English at UT/Brownsville, received the University of Texas
System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award for 2014. See via YouTube
TTU Ph.D. in American Literature and Comparative Literature Quan Ha has been promoted
to associate professor at the University of Montana at Missoula.
William Wenthe's fourth book of poetry, God's Foolishness, has been accepted for publication by LSU Press.
Bruce Clarke's new book, Neocybernetics and Narrative, has been published in October, 2014, by the University of Minnesota Press.
Jill Patterson has received a $120,000 Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society
Foundations in New York for her project developing narrative law as a field of expertise
in capital defense litigation.
Kanika Batra and Amy Koerber have both received Scholarship Catalyst Program FY2015
awards of $3000 from TTU. Batra's project is “Sourcing Archives and Conducting Interviews
at Women's Media Watch, Kingston, Jamaica”; Koerber's is “The Hormonal Woman: A Critical
Exploration of Expert and Public Rhetorics.”
