The Monthly Newsletter of Kansas State University’s Department of English
Reading Matters
Vol. 28, No. 1.
PUBLICATIONS
• Bryn Homuth, “Grapefruit.”
Lunch Ticket Summer/Fall
2013: <http://lunchticket.org/
grapefruit/>.
September 2013
www.childlitaesthetics.net/
index.php/blft/article/
view/21092>.
Manuscripts, a One-Day
Symposium. The Huntington
Library.San Marino,
California. 7 June 2013.
“Re-Imagining America: Jeff
Smith, Herman Melville, and
• Steffi Dippold, “The Travels of
National Dreamscapes.” Cothe King’s Copy: Charles II’s
“Bandaging.” Ducts 31 (2013):
written with Jennifer A.
Indian Bible and Transatlantic
<http://www.ducts.org/content/ Hughes. The Journal of
Bookmaking.” Print Network
two-poems-16/>.
Graphic Novels and Comics
Conference 2013.University of
4.1 (2013): 117-133.
Chichester, England 24 July
“Orange Thumb.” Ducts 31
2013.
(2013): <http://www.ducts.org/ • Kara Northway, “How
content/two-poems-16/>.
Important Is the Local, Really?: “Indigenous Cultures of Print
A Cross-Institutional
in Early America” (seminar
“Mouths to Feed.” Red Earth
Quantitative Assessment of
participant). American
Review 1 (2013): 68-69.
Frequently Asked Questions in
Antiquarian Society.
Writing Center Exit Surveys,”
Worcester, MA. 16-21 June
“Muscle Memory.” The Round
with Pam Bromley and Eliana
2013.
8 (2013): 43.
Schonberg Writing Center
Journal 33.1 (2012): 13-37.
“The Widow Factor: Gendered
• Daniel A. Hoyt, “Girl X” (short
Transatlantic Networks and
story). Witness 26.1 (2013):
• Anne Phillips, review of
Colonial Bookmaking.”
117-131.
Anne’s World: A New Century
Conference for Scholars of
of Anne of Green Gables, ed.
Book History and Print.
• Jim Machor, Review of
Irene Gammel and Benjamin
University of Freiburg,
Michael Millner’s Fever
Lefebvre. Children’s Literature Germany. 10 May 2013.
Reading: Affect and Reading
41 (2013): 277-82.
Badly in the Early American
• Elizabeth Dodd was co-curator
Public Sphere. Journal of
• Joe Sutliff Sanders,
(with Carol Blocksome and
American History 100.1
“Chaperoning Words: Meaning Edward Sturr) of Prairie
(2013): 192.
-Making in Comics and Picture Touched by Light, a collection
Books.” Children’s Literature
of photography and poetry
• Philip Nel, “Keywords for
41 (2013): 57-90.
exploring and celebrating the
Children’s Literature: Mapping
vibrant complexity of tallgrass
the Critical Moment.” Coecosystems. The show’s initial
PRESENTATIONS
written with Lissa Paul.
installation took place during
Barnelitterært
• Mark Crosby, “Blake’s Hand,
the America’s Grasslands
forskningstidsskrift/Nordic
a Cautionary Tale” (paper) and
conference sponsored by the
Journal of ChildLit Aesthetics
the conference’s opening and
National Wildlife Federation
4 (2013): <http://
closing remarks. Blake’s
and Kansas State University.
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Manhattan, KS. 12-14 Aug.
2013
• Gregory Eiselein, “Louisa
May Alcott, Patti Smith, and
Punk Aesthetics.” American
Literature Association
Conference. Boston, MA. 24
May 2013.
• Daniel A. Hoyt, excerpts from
“The Mad King” (fiction
reading) and “The Black
Paintings” (creative non-fiction
reading). Parcel’s Three-Year
Anniversary. Lawrence, KS. 20
July 2013.
“The Black Paintings” (creative
non-fiction reading).
Loggernaut Reading Series.
Portland, OR. 11 June 2013.
• Jim Machor, round-table
discussion and talk on
“Reception Study, Modernism,
and Little Magazines.”
University of Leuven, Flanders,
Belgium. 25 April 2013.
“Reception Study, Genre
Study, and Literary History,”
Centre for Reception Studies,
Europese Hogeschool
Universitiet, Brussels,
Belgium, 23 April 2013.
• Wendy Matlock, “Siblings in
MS Ashmole 61: ‘So glad of
odour ichon thei ware’” 20th
Annual International Medieval
Congress. Leeds, U.K. 2 July
2013.
Meeting. Kansas City, MO. 21
April 2013.
Association Conference.
Biloxi, MS. 15 June 2013.
• Philip Nel, co-chair and co“‘Certainly Reminiscent of
organizer (with Lissa Paul),
Alcott’s Little Women’: The
“Keywords for Children’s
Marches, the Penderwicks, and
Literature: A Roundtable
‘the Family Story as Genre.’”
Discussion.” Biennial
American Literature
Conference of the International Association. Boston, MA. 24
Research Society for
May 2013.
Children’s Literature.
Maastricht, Netherlands. 13
• Joe Sutliff Sanders,
Aug. 2013.
“Chaperoning Words: Meaning
-Making in Comics and Picture
“Whiteness, Nostalgia, and
Books.” International Bande
Fantastic Flying Books: The
Dessinée Society Conference.
Disappearance of Race in
Glasgow, Scotland. 25 June
William Joyce.” Biennial
2013.
Conference of the International
Research Society for Children’s • Karin Westman led a
Literature. Maastricht,
workshop for new department
Netherlands. 12 Aug. 2013.
chairs at the Association of
Departments of English
“‘He came up thinking fast’;
Conference. Charlotte, NC. 27
or, How does Crockett
June 2013.
Johnson’s Harold and the
Purple Crayon work?” (invited “Beyond Periodization:
talk). Visual/Verbal Texts
Children’s Literature, Genre,
Symposium. University of
and Remediating Literary
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
History.” 40th Annual
25 June 2013.
Children’s Literature
“How, Where, and Why to
Publish Your Book” (invited
talk). University of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. 24 June
2013.
Association Conference.
Biloxi, MS. 14 June 2013.
• Karin Westman and Naomi
Wood, Editors’ Roundtable
(panelists). 40th Annual
Children’s Literature
“Manifesto for a ComicsAssociation Conference. 14
Children’s Literature Alliance.” June 2013.
40th Annual Children’s
Literature Association
• Naomi Wood, “What Happens
Conference. Biloxi, MS. 14
After the Death of God? Philip
Jun. 2013.
Pullman as Controversialist.”
“Tainted Love: Demarcating
Familial Bonds in ‘The Jealous • Anne Phillips, “‘Playful
Scholarship’: Creating the
Wife’ and ‘The Incestuous
Norton Critical Edition of
Daughter.’” Mid-America
Little Women.” 40th Annual
Medieval Association Annual
Children’s Literature
40th Annual Children’s
Literature Association
Conference. 13 June 2013.
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AWARDS
competition. “I Think I'm
Almost Ready to See the
Ocean” (poem) will appear in
Iron Horse Review.
• Steffi Dippold won a Reese
Fellowship in Bibliography and
the History of the Book in the
Americas from the American
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Antiquarian Society.
 Friday, September 13, 2013,
She also held a Fellowship at
ECS 017, 3:30 pm. Sponsored
the Eccles Center of the British
by the Cultural Studies Track,
Library, 28 June - 28 July
the first of three mini-seminars
2013.
on Roland Barthes's Camera
Lucida.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Friday, September 20, 2013,
 Anne Phillips was elected to a
Union Little Theatre, 3:30
second term as Secretary of
pm. Reading by Roxane Gay.
The Louisa May Alcott Society
(2013-2015).
 Friday, September 27, 2013,
Leadership Studies Town
Hall, 4 pm. Lecture by Laine
NEWS FROM ALUMNI
Nooney.
 Dennis Etzel Jr. (M.A. 2006)
recently joined the Diversity
 Wednesday, October 2, 2013,
Initiative and Women and
ECS Building, 4:30 pm.
Gender Studies Committees
English Fair for Majors and
where he teaches at Washburn
Minors.
University. He continues to
mentor creative writing
 Friday, October 4, 2013,
students at AWP annually. His
Union Little Theatre, 3:30
work recently appeared in
pm. Reading by Shane Seeley.
1913: A Journal of Forms and
The Laurel Review, and he won  Wednesday, October 9, 2013,
the Inscape Editors Award for
Union Room 227, 3:30 pm.
Non-Fiction in Inscape 2013.
Department Colloquium.


Ramona McCallum (B.A.
 Thursday, October 10, 2013,
1999) has published a
McCain Auditorium, 7 pm.
collection of poetry, Still Life
Reading by Ernest Cline.
With Dirty Dishes, with
Woodley Press (2013). She
 Friday, October 25, 2013,
begins the MFA program in
ECS 017, 3:30 pm. Sponsored
creative writing and media
by the Cultural Studies Track,
studies at UMKC as a recipient
the second of three miniof the Durwood Fellowship this seminars on Roland Barthes's
fall.
Camera Lucida.
Michael Mlekoday (M.A.
2011) was a winner of the 2013
AWP Intro Journals Project
Reading Matters is a monthly publication
of the Department of English, 108 ECS
Building, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-6501. Editors: Philip
Nel, Cindy Stueder, and Mitzi Farmer.
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