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Issue No. 68 Winter 2018
South Central Newsletter
Join us for SCMLA’s 75th Annual Conference in
San Antonio, Texas!
Inside this issue: 400 conference participants. We appreciate Americana (New York Quarterly Books, 2013)
the participation of our members and their and Elegy for Trains (Village Books Press,
2017 Prize and Award Winners 2 efforts to create successful conferences for 2010). He has been honored with an Oklaho-
SCMLA, year after year. ma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for
2018 Grants & Awards Available 3
the Book and with a Tennessee Williams Schol-
SCMLA realizes the importance of providing
Professional Development—San Anto- 4 workshops and networking opportunities arship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
His prose appears in World Literature Today,
throughout the conference. This year, we con-
Books and Culture, First Things and other mag-
2018 Executive Committee tinued our tradition of hosting a Job Seekers
5 azines. Myers teaches poetry writing and liter-
Workshop and Mock Interviews with helpful
ature at Oklahoma Baptist University, where
2018 Deadlines 6 information for our members entering the job he is the Crouch-Mathis Professor of Litera-
market. The “Strategies for Getting Published”
2018 Regular/Allied Session Calls 8 roundtable, featuring South Central Review ture. His address, entitled “Why Teach Poet-
ry?” focused on several reasons and needs
San Antonio Conference Hotel 17 managing editor, Nick Lawrence, South Central that we as teachers, mentors, academics, and
Review book review editor, Christopher
citizens have to keep students reading. He also
74th Annual Convention in Tulsa Bundrick, and Associate Editor of Children’s stressed many political and economic
Moving Words: Migrations, Trans- Literature Association Quarterly, Sara K. Day
was, again, a great success. All of these events
facts that try very hard to prevent us and the
lations and Transformations school systems in general from accomplishing
will be held again next year at the San Antonio
our mission. At the end, he said, we must not
conference. We would like to thank all of our
give up. Keep trying; poetry will save us all.
th members who helped with and attended
The 74 Annual South Central Modern Lan-
these professional development opportuni- The 2017 Poets’ Corner, organized by Julie
guage Association conference was held on
ties. Chappell, featured poets Abigail Keegan, Ron
October 5-7 at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel
Wallace and Robin Carstensen. As always,
and Convention Center in Tulsa, OK. We, again, At the Business Meeting, the SCMLA member-
Poets’ Corner continued to bring in award-
had an exciting variety of topics discussed ship voted on a motion to shorten the term of
winning poets to share their work with our
throughout the conference. A sample of the the Executive Director from 5 years to 3 years.
members. A work by each poet is included
Special Session topics this year included: The motion passed and the term will be ap-
later in this newsletter.
“Apocalypse from Now On: Migrations at the plied at the end of 2018. Dr. José Juan Colín
End of the World,” “Graphic Texts & Visual has been approved by the Executive Commit- This year’s Women’s Caucus of the SCMLA
Rhetoric: Migrations, Translations and Trans- tee as Executive Director through 2021. breakfast was chaired by Margaret A. Johnson
formations,” “Migrating Online: Digital Tech- and featured guest speaker, Dr. Dawn Hall of
nologies and Writing Program Administration,” Benjamin Myers was honored as the keynote Western Kentucky University, who gave a talk
and Translation vs. Transformation: Bicultural speaker for 2017. Myers was the 2015-2016
entitled “Contemporary Women in Film: Kelly
Implications of Translation. The conference Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma and is
Reichardt.”
featured a total of 116 sessions and more than the author of two books of poetry: Lapse
2018 SCMLA Conference wide range of exciting research Awarded by South Central Review:
October 11-14 connected to this topic to be pre- 2017 Kirby Prize for the Best Arti-
sented at these meeting. As al- cle Published in The South Central
San Antonio, Texas
ways, papers on other topics are Review
SCMLA will be in San Antonio, Texas in also welcome. Please join us for The South Central Review is pleased to
2018. Our hotel, Menger Hotel is locat- SCMLA's convention in San Anto- announce that the winner of its Kirby
ed next to the Alamo and near the River Prize for the best article published in
nio, Texas on October 11-14, at the
Walk. Members will find a variety of the journal in 2016 is "Immigration
shops, restaurants and entertainment historic Menger Hotel.
and Abandonment in Ryad AssaniRa-
within walking distance of the hotel. zaki’s Deux cercles and La main
The Call for Papers for San Antonio 2018 Recognition of 2017 Grant & d’Iman,” by Dr. Holly Collins (Baylor
is listed later in this edition of the News- University). This essay appeared in the
Award Winners Fall 2016 Open Issue (33.3)
letter. Topics are varied and can accom-
modate research on a broad range of In 2017, the following members re-
subjects. We also accept Special Session ceived awards from SCMLA:
proposals on topics beyond the confer-
SCMLA Faculty Research Travel Grant
ence theme.
Susanne Hafner, Fordham University SCMLA offers $15,000 in
grants and prizes in 2017!
2018 Conference Theme: SCMLA Research Travel Grant for
Temporary Faculty and Independent The association is pleased to sup-
“Crossroads of Cultures”
Scholars port the original research of our
The 75th annual South Central
Arturo Gutierrez-Plaza, University ofmembers with the SCMLA Research
Modern Language Association con-
Oklahoma Award in the amount of $1500,
vention will be held in San Antonio,
open to scholars who have com-
Texas from October 11-14 at the SCMLA Book Award pleted the PhD. In addition, the
historic Menger Hotel on the River Pamela A. Genova, University of Okla-
SCMLA also offers a Research
Walk, right next door to the Alamo. homa Award for Temporary Faculty and
San Antonio is the perfect city for
Independent Scholars in the
this year’s theme, “Crossroads of Bill L. and Gerre D. Andrist Prize in
Hispanic Gender Studies
amount of $1500 (open to eligible
Cultures.” Through the art, archi-
members who have completed the
tecture and design of the city, it is William Benner, Texas Woman’s Uni-
versity terminal degree in their area and
evident that there were, and are,
do not hold a regular faculty posi-
different cultures crossing paths
SCMLA Prize for the Best Paper in tion.)
and influencing each other, now
Historical, Literary, and/or Cultural Our full list of grants, awards, and
and over the past several centu- Studies for Faculty paper prizes can be found in the
ries. San Antonio is a cultural kalei- Rebeccah Bechtold, Wichita State Uni-
pages of this newsletter and at
doscope that began with the native versity http://www.southcentralmla.org/
indigenous peoples who made
grants-awards
their home here. The arrival of the SCMLA Prize for the Best Paper in
Spanish people and, later, the An- Historical, Literary, and/or Cultural
glos, resulted in a new culture that Studies for Graduate Students
permeates almost every place in Zachary Powell, University of Roches-
the United States: the Hispanic ter
American culture. Literature, Lin-
SCMLA Poetry Prize
guistics, Cultural Studies and other
Ken Hada, East Central University
forms of art bear witness to this
mixing and coexisting of many
different cultures. We anticipate a
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 2
2018 Grants & Awards
Eligibility Requirements: 2018 SCMLA PAPER PRIZES
For most awards, applicants must be current SCMLA mem- Members scheduled to present appropriate work in our Regu-
bers and must have been members for the previous two lar/Allied and Special Sessions at the Fall 2018 conference are
encouraged to compete for our conference paper and writing
years. Graduate Student and travel grant applicants must
prizes. Submissions must have been accepted in a session for
have been members for at least one full year. SCMLA Exec- the current year; may be nominated by a session chair or by the
utive Committee members are ineligible. Deadlines are all author; must represent new, previously unpresented and un-
in 2018. For more information, see our website: http:// published work; must be typed and double-spaced, using 12-pt.
www.southcentralmla.org type size; must observe a 3,500 word limit (winners agree to
shorten papers for 15-20 minute delivery); and be received by
SCMLA GRANTS August 31, 2018 via email to the SCMLA office. Entries must be
submitted in English except in the case of the Andrist prize, for
SCMLA FELLOWSHIP AT THE HARRY RANSOM CENTER AT THE which entries in Spanish and Portuguese are also acceptable.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN Submissions must include a cover sheet with the paper title and
FOR THE 2017- 2018 ACADEMIC YEAR—$3000 the name of the prize being sought (papers may compete for
APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2017, 5 P.M. CST one prize only); the cover sheet must OMIT the writer's name
INFORMATION ON ELIGIBILITY AND HOW TO APPLY: and address. Winners will be notified by mid-September and will
www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fellowships/application be expected to attend the SCMLA Business Meeting at the Annu-
al Conference where their awards will be announced.
BENSON LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION-SCMLA FACULTY RE-
SEARCH GRANT—$1500 Bill L. and Gerre D. Andrist Paper Prize in Hispanic Gender
APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2018 Studies—$250
SCMLA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT—$500 SCMLA Short Story Prize—$500
at the dissertation stage
APPLICATION DEADLINE FEBRUARY 28, 2018 SCMLA Prize for the Best Paper in Historical, Literary, and/or
Cultural Studies—$250
SCMLA RESEARCH AWARD—$1500
Open to all eligible members who have completed the PhD SCMLA Prize for the Best Paper in Historical, Literary, and/or
APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 31, 2018 Cultural Studies (Graduate Students)—$250
SCMLA RESEARCH AWARD FOR TEMPORARY FACULTY AND SCMLA Poetry Prize—$500
INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS—$1500
Only eligible members who have completed the terminal degree
for their area and do not hold regular faculty positions may SCMLA BOOK AWARD—$500
apply
APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 31, 2018 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2018
SCMLA CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS Scholarly and critical books and editions published in English in
Up to $500 for Graduate Students (at the doctoral level), 2017 by SCMLA members are eligible for the 2018 prize. Books
Faculty, and Independent Scholars published in a language other than English will be considered if a
APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 30, 2018 translation of the book into English is provided.
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: Nominations, including self-nominations, will be accepted from
Career Achievement in Research—$750 members or from the publisher of an eligible book. Send two
Service to the Profession—$750 copies of the nominated book by March 31, 2018 to the SCMLA
office.
Nominations for the Career Achievement Awards should be sent
to scmla@ou.edu by March 31, 2018 and should include a letter Nominees must be current SCMLA members and must have
detailing the nominee’s achievements. The Awards Committee been members for the previous two years. The successful candi-
may also nominate members for these awards. Self-nominations date for the SCMLA Book Award will be announced at the Annu-
for these awards are not allowed. al Business Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
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Professional Development Oppor- recognized in our conference program and The South Central Review
tunities: Workshops, Mock Inter- their names are prominently displayed in
the registration and reception areas. We Invites Ideas and Submissions
views, and More! thank you for your support!
The South Central Review is edited by
The 2018 Conference in San Antonio will
feature professional development oppor- Reminders for Conference Richard J. Golsan, University Distinguished
Professor of French at Texas A&M Univer-
tunities designed to be helpful to mem- Participants: sity. SCR is published by Johns Hopkins
bers at all career stages. In addition to a University Press and archived by Project
workshop for job-seekers and mock inter- You must be a current member to Muse and is the official publication of the
views, we will again hold a roundtable propose a paper or otherwise participate South Central Modern Language Associa-
with journal editors entitled “Strategies in a Regular or Special session. Please tion. Managing Editor Nick Lawrence
for Getting Published.” Be sure to look for renew your membership before sending (University of South Carolina—Lancaster)
these exciting events in the 2018 Conven- a paper proposal to a session chair or a welcomes submissions and ideas for spe-
tion Program. session proposal to our office. cial projects and issues on a wide range of
topics concerning literature, culture, and
We Invite Regional and **In addition to membership fees, the arts. Members may contact him at:
National Associations to Hold conference participants lawrennm@mailbox.sc.edu
Allied Sessions at the SCMLA must also register for the conference
Conference in San Antonio by August 31, 2018.
Please note: At the Fall 2014 meeting,
The South Central MLA invites regional or
national associations for scholars in fields SCMLA’s Executive Committee approved a
of cultural studies, literature, linguistics,
change to conference submission proce- New and Retiring Executive
dures: double submissions of abstracts
philosophy, theory, visual arts, and other
are no longer allowed. Members may
Committee Members
areas of the humanities to form an allied
session at our annual convention. Forming send a proposal to only one academic
Executive Committee members who will
session and one creative writing session.
an allied session is an excellent opportuni- begin service in 2018 are:
ty for associations that would like to meet
more frequently or for small associations Accommodating abstracts: If a high quali-
ty abstract cannot be accommodated in Lynn Alexander (Vice-president)
that do not have the resources to plan a
the session to which it is submitted, the Jessica Murphy (English)
regularly scheduled conference. Associa-
chair should forward it to the SCMLA
tion presidents, executive directors, or Annachiara Mariani (Russian and Less
officers may write directly to office, which will try to find an alternate
placement for the abstract. Alternately, Commonly Taught Languages)
scmla@ou.edu for details.
the Chair may, with the consent of the Susana Perea-Fox (Spanish)
submitter, contact other sessions that
Friends Membership might be able to accommodate the ab- Congratulations to all of you!
stract and ask if they have space.
We are pleased to offer special benefits to
those who renew or join as Friends of the
Splitting Sessions: If a session chair re- The Executive Office warmly thanks re-
South Central MLA, a membership catego-
ceives five or more abstracts of high aca- tiring EC members Jeanne Gillespie of
ry that allows members to make a tax-
demic merit, s/he may petition to split the University of Southern Mississippi (Past
deductible donation to the organization
session into 2 or more panels. Please President), Jeffrey Oxford Midwestern
by contributing at a higher optional annu-
email scmla@ou.edu to ask about this State University (Spanish) and Michael
al membership rate. This support allows
option. We ask that chairs wait to confirm Ward of Trinity University (Russian and
the association to offer new research and
the acceptance of additional presenters Less Commonly Taught Languages) for
conference travel grants, and to subsidize
until we verify that there will be adequate their contributions to governance and
low graduate student rates. Please consid-
space to split the session. Requests to their service to the profession. It has
er purchasing a membership at the Silver
split sessions will be honored on a first-
($150), Gold ($300), or Platinum ($500) been a pleasure working with all of you!
come, first-served basis. SCMLA members
level when you renew your membership
who present work on a creative writing
this year. Friends of the SCMLA receive an
session may also deliver an academic pa-
invitation to a special reception at the
per at the conference as in the past.
annual convention. Friends are also
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 4
SCMLA 2018 Executive Committee
Sylvia Morin, President
University of Tennessee-Martin
smorin@utm.edu
Lynn Alexander, Vice President
University of Tennessee-Martin
lalexand@utm.edu
Paul Larson, Past President
Baylor University
paul_larson@baylor.edu
José Juan Colín, Executive Director
University of Oklahoma
josejuan@ou.edu
Richard J. Golsan, Editor (2013-2017)
South Central Review
Texas A&M University - College Station
rjgolsan@aol.com
Jessica Murphy, English (2018-2020)
University of Tennessee-Martin
jessica.c.murphy@utdallas.edu
Lowry Martin, French (2017-2019)
University of Texas – El Paso
lmartin@utep.edu
Christoph Weber, German (2016-2018)
University of North Texas
christoph.weber@unt.edu
Annachiara Mariani, Russian and Less-Commonly-Taught Languages (2018-2020)
University of Tennessee—Knoxville
amariani@utk.edu
Susana Perea-Fox, Spanish (2018-2020)
Oklahoma State University
susana.perea-fox@okstate.edu
Mallory Young, At-Large (2016-2018)
Tarleton State University
myoung@tarleton.edu
Sara Day, At-Large (2017-2019)
Truman University
sday@truman.edu
John G. Morris, American Literature (2017-2019)
Cameron University
johnmor@cameron.edu
Hannah Johnson, Graduate Student (2017-2019)
University of Oklahoma
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South Central Modern Language Association Deadlines for 2018
February 2018
28 Deadline for receipt of Graduate Student Grant applications to the SCMLA office
28 Deadline for receipt of SCMLA Faculty Research Grant and Temporary Faculty Research
Grant applications to SCMLA office
28 Deadline for receipt of Benson-SCMLA Faculty Research Grant applications to SCMLA
office
28 Deadline for receipt of Proposals for Special Sessions for San Antonio 2018 to the SCMLA
office
March 2018
31 Proposers of Special Sessions for San Antonio 2018 will be notified
31 Deadline for receipt of Book Prize Nominations to the SCMLA office
31 Deadline for submission of Papers/Abstracts for San Antonio 2018 to Regular/Allied Ses-
sion Chairs
April 2018
30 Deadline for receipt of Final Program Forms for all 2018 sessions to the SCMLA office
30 Deadline for requesting audio-visual equipment for San Antonio 2018
30 Deadline for receipt of SCMLA Conference Travel Grants applications to SCMLA office
30 Deadline for 2018 conference participants to become members of SCMLA
30 Deadline for receipt of items to be included in the Summer Newsletter to SCMLA office
August 2018
31 Deadline for 2018 Conference Paper Prize submissions
31 Deadline for registration of conference participants for San Antonio 2018
31 Deadline for voting for SCMLA Executive Committee
September 2018
20 Deadline for 2018 conference hotel reservations at the historic Menger Hotel
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER
Page 6San Antonio 2018
Regular/Allied Sessions Call FLANNERY O’CONNOR SOCIETY APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Chair: Lucas Wilson, Florida Atlantic University. Chair: Lucia Llorente, Berry College.
for Papers wilsonf74@gmail.com lllorente@berry.edu
Secretary: Secretary: Linda McManness, Baylor Universi-
Below are the calls for Regular/Allied ses- ty. linda_mcmanness@baylor.edu
sions. If any of the information for your ses- INTERNATIONAL COURTLY LITERATURE SOCIE-
sion is missing or incorrect, please contact TY AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY
SCMLA@ou.edu. Chair: Annie Doucet, Tulane University. Chair: Lucero Tenorio, Oklahoma State Univer-
adoucet1@tulane.edu sity. lucero.tenorio@okstate.edu
Secretary: Audrey Townsend, University of Secretary: Tomie Bitton, Oklahoma State Uni-
If you are interested in presenting a paper in Oklahoma. actownsend@ou.edu versity. tomie.bitton@okstate.edu
a session, email an abstract and a brief CV to
the session chair. SOCIETY FOR CRITICAL EXCHANGE: Intersec- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM:
Remember: double submissions are not tions of Race, Class, and Culture in Hispanic Transmissions and Translations of Texts
allowed. Each member may submit a pro- Literature or Film Chair: Heidi Nobles, Texas Christian University.
posal to one academic sessions and one This panel will explore the connections and heidi.nobles@gmail.com
creative writing session. If a proposal exchanges between and among diverse cul- Secretary: Thomas Bonner, Xavier University of
deemed of high quality cannot be accommo- tures within the Hispanic world including, but Louisiana. tbonner@xula.edu
dated in the session to which it was sub- not limited to, religious, ethnic, racial, and
mitted, the chair will forward it to the socio-economic groups in Latin America or CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
SCMLA office to find an alternate placement. Spain. Proposals are welcomed on the research and
Chair: Marco O. Íñiguez, Texas A&M University teaching of children’s and young adult litera-
Alternately, the chair may contact other
– Kingsville. kfmoi00@tamuk.edu ture and media. Please submit abstracts.
sessions that may be able to accommodate
Secretary: Michelle Johnson Vela, Texas A&M Chair: Ernest Enchelmayer, Arkansas Tech Uni-
the abstract, after receiving consent of the
University – Kingsville. kfmrj00@tamuk.edu versity. eenchelmayer@atu.edu
submitter. Secretary: Joy Smith, Kansas State University.
Session chairs who receive more than four WOMEN IN FRENCH joymosssmith@ksu.edu
high quality abstracts are encouraged to split On French and Francophone Women Writers
their session into more than one panel. In Chair: Annick Bellemain, University of Science COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
most years, SCMLA can accommodate these and Arts of Oklahoma. abellemain@usao.edu Chair: Michael T. Ward, Trinity University.
requests. Please contact the SCMLA office Secretary: Jessica Appleby, University of Cen- mward@trinity.edu
before confirming the acceptance of addi- tral Oklahoma. jappleby@uco.edu Secretary: Jeffrey Sartain, University of Hou-
tional presenters. ston – Victoria. sartainj@uhv.edu
REGULAR SESSIONS CREATIVE WRITING - CREATIVE NONFICTION
ALLIED SESSIONS AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE Chair: Emily Monteiro, Blinn College. emi-
Chair: Christel Woods, Kansas State University. ly.monteiro@blinn.edu
ASOCIACIÓN DE LITERATURA FEMENINA HIS- sapoet@gmail.com Secretary: Tiffany Bouchard, Arkansas Tech
PÁNICA Secretary: Stewart Habig, University of Tulsa. University. tiffanydbouchard@gmail.com
This session is open to presentations on the stewart.habig@gmail.com
work written by Hispanic women from Latin CREATIVE WRITING - POETRY
America, Spain, and any other regions of the AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Chair: Andrew Wittstadt, McNeese State Uni-
Spanish-speaking world. Presentations may be Chair: Zane Evans, University of the Incarnate versity. msu-awittstadt@student.mcneese.edu
given in Spanish or English. Word. zevans@uiwtx.edu Secretary: Nancy Correro, Georgia State
Secretary: Seungho Lee, University of Tulsa. University. nmcorrero@gmail.com
Chair: Bethsabe Huaman Andia, Tulane Univer- sel690@utulsa.edu
sity. bhuamana@tulane.edu CREATIVE WRITING - SHORT STORY
Secretary: Rosa Toledo, University of Tennes- AMERICAN LITERATURE I: LITERATURE BE- Chair: Lee Matalone, McNeese State Universi-
see at Knoxville. rtoledo@utk.edu FORE 1900 ty. msu-smatalone@student.mcneese.edu
Chair: Luella D’Amico, University of the Incar- Secretary: Elliot Kaiser, McNeese State Univer-
CONFERENCE ON CHRISTIANITY AND LITERA- nate Word. ldamico@uiwtx.edu sity. msu-ekaiser@student.mcneese.edu
TURE Secretary: Jason Payton, Sam Houston State
Chair: Matt Hallgarth, Tarleton State Universi- University. jmpayton@shsu.edu DIGITAL HUMANITIES
ty. hallgarth@tarleton.edu How are instructors using technology effective-
Secretary: Terry Nugent, University of Arkansas AMERICAN LITERATURE II: LITERATURE AFTER ly in the classroom?
– Monticello. nugenttl@uamont.edu 1900
Chair: Takuya Matsuda, University of North Chair: Tiffany Smith, Georgia State University.
THE EUDORA WELTY SOCIETY Texas. takuyamatsuda@my.unt.edu tsmith234@student.gsu.edu
Chair: Sarah L. Peters, East Central University. Secretary: Marie Sartain, University of Tulsa. Secretary: Jasmine Misner, University of Cen-
speters@ecok.edu marie-sartain@utulsa.edu tral Oklahoma. Jmisner1@uco.edu
Secretary:
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER
Page 7EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES ture, and art from German-speaking countries
Chair: Takuya Matsuda, University of North FILM 4: GLOBAL FILM (PAPERS MUST BE PRE- between 1700-1890. Topics related to the con-
Texas. TakuyaMatsuda@myunt.edu SENTED IN ENGLISH) ference theme “Crossroads of Cultures” are
Secretary: Chair: Nancy Membrez, University of Texas at encouraged but not required.
San Antonio. nancy.membrez@gmail.com Chair: Christoph Weber, University of North
ENGLISH I: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LAN- Secretary: Ian M. Radzinski, Texas A&M Univer- Texas. christoph.weber@unt.edu
GUAGE AND LITERATURE sity – Commerce. ira- Secretary: Pamela Saur, Lamar University.
Chair: Breeman Ainsworth, OSU-OKC. dzinski@leomail.tamuc.edu pssaur@lamar.edu
breeman@osuokc.edu
Secretary: FOLKLORE GERMAN III: LITERATURE AND CULTURE FROM
Chair: Marta Moore, Collin College. 1890 TO PRESENT
ENGLISH II: RENAISSANCE LITERATURE EX- mmoore@collin.edu The panel welcomes contributions in literature,
CLUDING DRAMA Secretary: Kellie Matherly, Grayson College. film, audio or visual culture, and theory from
Chair: Jessica C. Murphy, University of Texas – matherlyk@grayson.edu 1890 to the present. Interdisciplinary projects
Dallas. jessica.c.murphy@utdallas.edu particularly in the light of the conference
Secretary: Nicholas Brush, University of Central FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE theme “Crossroads of Cultures” are encouraged
Oklahoma. Nicholas.a.brush@uco.edu Chair: Nisrine Slitine El Mghari, University of as well.
Oklahoma. nslitine@ou.edu Chair: Yvonne Franke, Midwestern State Uni-
ENGLISH III: RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH- Secretary: Jane Evans, University of Texas at El versity. yvonne.franke@mwsu.edu
CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE Paso. jeevans@utep.edu Secretary: Sara Tusa, Lamar University. sa-
Chair: Joel T. Terranova, University of Louisiana rah.tusa@lamar.edu
at Lafayette. jtt9554@louisiana.edu FRENCH I: LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE TO
Secretary: 1600 GERMAN WOMEN WRITERS
Chair: Susan Hopkirk, University of Toronto. Chair: Susanne Hafner, Fordham University.
ENGLISH IV: NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH susan.hopkirk@utoronto.ca hafner@fordham.edu
LITERATURE: Crossroads of Cultures Secretary: Hannah B. Johnson, University of Secretary: Maria Ebner, Fordham University.
19th Century British Literature lends itself well Oklahoma. hbjohnson@ou.edu mebner@fordham.edu
to the theme of “Crossroads of Cultures”, in- GOTHIC
cluding science, religion, class, race, and gen- FRENCH II: LITERATURE 1600–1800 Chair: Shari Hodges Holt, University of Missis-
der. Paper on this topic are encouraged but not Chair: Eric Turcat, Oklahoma State University. sippi. shodges@olemiss.edu
required. eric.turcat@okstate.edu Secretary: Daniel Kasper, University of Arizona.
Chair: Courtney Simpkins, Radford University. Secretary: dtkasper@email.arizona.edu
csimpkins5@radford.edu
Secretary: Thanh Huynh, University of Central FRENCH III: LITERATURE AFTER 1800 HISPANIC LITERATURE WRITTEN IN THE UNIT-
Oklahoma. thuynh7@uco.edu Chair: Hope Christiansen, University of Arkan- ED STATES
sas. hopec@uark.edu Chair: Marco O. Iniguez, Texas A&M University
ENGLISH V: TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH Secretary: Kathy Comfort, University of Arkan- – Kingsville. kfmoi00@tamuk.edu
LITERATURE sas. kcomfort@uark.edu Secretary: Miriam Romero, University of Okla-
Chair: Farah Siddiqui, University of Texas at homa. mromero@ou.edu
Dallas. fxs121830@utdallas.edu FRESHMAN ENGLISH AND ENGLISH COMPOSI-
Secretary: TION INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN THE HUMANI-
Chair: Anne-Marie Womack, Tulane University. TIES
ENGLISH VI: GENERAL LINGUISTICS awomack@tulane.edu Chair: Bryan L. Moore, Arkansas State Universi-
Chair: Mary Lynne Hill, St. Mary’s University. Secretary: Thomas Reynolds, Northwestern ty. bmoore@astate.edu
mhill@stmarytx.edu State University. reynoldst@nsula.edu Secretary:
Secretary:
GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES IN LANGUAGE IRISH LITERATURE:
FILM 1: ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM AND LITERATURE Chair: Rebecca Clay, University of Texas – Dal-
Chair: Scott L. Baugh, Texas Tech University. Chair: Erin Clair, Arkansas Tech University. las. rxc115330@utdallas.edu
scott.baugh@ttu.edu eclair@atu.edu Secretary: Courtney Simpkins, Radford Univer-
Secretary: Kenneth Brewer, University of Texas Secretary: Nancy Correro, Georgia State Uni- sity. csimpkins@radford.edu
at Dallas. Kenneth.brewer@utdallas.edu versity. nmcorrero@gmail.com
ITALIAN STUDIES I: MEDIEVAL THROUGH RE-
FILM 2: FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE FILM GENDER AND RACE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY NAISSANCE
Chair: : Lowry Martin, University of Texas—El LITERATURE Chair: Andrea Polegato, The University of North
Paso. lmartin@utep.edu Chair: Catalina Castillón, Lamar University. cat- Texas. Andrea.Polegato@unt.edu
Secretary: alina.castillon@lamar.edu Secretary: Annachiara Mariani, The University
Secretary: Rita D. Costello, McNeese State Uni- of Tennessee. amariani@utk.edu
FILM 3: HISPANIC FILM versity. rcostello@mcneese.edu
Chair: Gilles Viennot, University of Arkansas. ITALIAN STUDIES II: OPEN TOPIC
gviennot@uark.edu GERMAN II: LITERATURE AND CULTURE BE- Chair: Sandra Waters, University of Arkan-
Secretary: Edma Delgado, University of Arkan- FORE 1890 sas, sandywaters8@gmail.com
sas – Little Rock. eidelgadoso@ualr.edu This panel welcomes papers on culture, litera- Secretary: Moira Di Mauro-
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 8Jackson. md11@txstate.edu
ITALIAN STUDIES III: PEDAGOGY RENAISSANCE DRAMA SOUTHWESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chair: : Silvio De Santis, The University of North Chair: Nicholas A. Brush, University of Central Chair: Sandra Sook, Texas Woman’s University.
Texas. Silvio.Desantis@unt.edu Oklahoma. nicholas.a.brush@uco.edu ssook@twu.edu
Secretary: Molly Zaldivar, University of Texas Secretary: Kris McAbee, University of Arkansas Secretary: Lisette Blano-Cerda, Tarrant County
at San Antonio. Molly.Zaldivar@utsa.edu at Little Rock. kxmcabee@ualr.edu College District. lisette.blanco-cerda@tccd.edu
LITERATURE AND POLITICS RHETORIC SPANISH I: PENINSULAR LITERATURE BEFORE
Chair: William R. Benner, Texas Woman’s Uni- Chair: Jessie Casteel, University of Houston. 1700
versity. wbenner@twu.edu stoneguard@sprtnet.com Papers will deal with works and authors from
Secretary: Kelvin Goh, Tufts University. kelvis- Secretary: Nate Vance, University of Central Peninsular Spain up to 1700. This session will
simo@gmail.com Oklahoma. nvance3@uco.edu include not only Castilian works, but works
from the other literatures/languages of the
LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND METHODOLOGY Peninsula (Arabic, Hebrew, Catalán Gallego,
Chair: Vernon Miles, Henderson State Universi- Chair: Karen Chilstrom, University of Texas at and Basque.
ty. vmiles@hsu.edu Austin. chilstrom@utexas.edu Chair: Paul Nelson, Louisiana Tech University.
Secretary: Secretary: Iya Price, University of Texas at pbnelson@gmail.com
Arlington. iya.khelm@uta.edu Secretary: Paul Larson, Baylor University.
LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY paul_larson@baylor.edu
Chair: Lindsey Holmes, Texas A&M – Corpus RUSSIAN LITERATURE
Christi. Holmeseng2019@gmail.com Chair: Heather Almanza, Blinn College. SPANISH II: PENINSULAR LITERATURE 1700-
Secretary: Micah Donohue, Eastern New Mexi- heather.almanza@blinn.edu 1898
co State University. mi- Secretary: Alexandra Kostina, Rhodes College. Chair: Ivelisse Urbán, Tarleton State University.
cah.donohue@enmu.edu kostina@rhodes.edu urban@tarleton.edu
Secretary: Frieda Blackwell, Baylor University.
LUSO-AFRO-BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE AND LIT- SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY LITERATURE: frieda_blackwell@baylor.edu
ERATURE Rethinking Utopia
Chair: Gustavo Costa, Texas Tech University. Paper should consider various approaches to SPANISH III: 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY PENINSU-
gustavo.costa@ttu.edu utopia and utopian representation. How is LAR LITERATURE
Secretary: Claudia Cavallin Calanche, Universi- utopia imagined in a science fiction context? Chair: Vicent Moreno, Arkansas State Universi-
ty of Oklahoma. ccavallin@ou.edu Does the concept continue to hold value? How ty. vmoreno@astate.edu
or why? Secretary: Beth Green-Nagle, Northeastern
MIDDLE EASTERN LANGUAGES AND LITERA- Chair: Eddie Ardeneaux IV, University of Arkan- State University. nagle@nsuok.edu
TURES sas. eardeneauxiv@gmail.com
Chair: Eman Al-Habashneh, University of Texas Secretary: William C. Lemley, University of SPANISH IV: COLONIAL LITERATURE
at Dallas. eba130130@utdallas.edu Arkansas. wclemley@uark.edu THROUGH MODERNISMO
Secretary: Sarah Hashmi, University of Texas at Chair: Theresa Warner, University of Arkansas
Dallas. sarah.hashmi@utdallas.edu SCIENCE AND LITERATURE – Little Rock. tawarner@ualr.edu
Chair: Gwendolyn Diaz, St. Mary’s University. Secretary: Christy De Lara, University of Okla-
MODERN DRAMA gwendiaz@sbcglobal.net homa. christy.de.lara-1@ou.edu
Chair: Rita D. Costello, McNeese State Univer- Secretary: Mick Howard, Langston University.
sity. rcostello@mcnesse.edu mhoward@langston.edu SPANISH V: 20TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN
Secretary: Marsha Decker, Tarleton State Uni- LITERATURE
versity. decker@tarleton.edu SHORT FICTION Chair: Lucia Garcia Santana, Sewanee: The
Chair: John G. Morris, Cameron University. University of the South. ligarcia@sewanee.edu
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE johnmor@cameron.edu Secretary: Edma Delgado, University of Arkan-
Chair: Kimberly Allen, Oklahoma State Univer- Secretary: Sarah Peters, East Central Universi- sas at Little Rock. eidelgadoso@ualr.edu
sity. kimberly.allen@okstate.edu ty. speters@ecok.edu
Secretary: Kellie Matherly, Grayson College. SPANISH VI: 21ST CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN
matherlyk@grayson.edu SLAVIC AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LAN- LITERATURE
GUAGES AND LITERATURES Chair: Susana Perea-Fox, Oklahoma State Uni-
POP CULTURE Chair: Biljana Obradovic, Xavier University of versity. Susana.perea-fox@oksate.edu
Chair: Rodrigo Figueroa Obregón, Eastern New Louisiana. bobradov@xula.edu Secretary: Luvia Estrella Morales, University of
Mexico State University. Secretary: Kelly Hamren, Liberty University. Oklahoma. luvie.e.morales.rodriqguez-
rodrigo.figueroa@enmu.edu klhicks@liberty.edu 1@ou.edu
Secretary: Julie Ward, University of Oklahoma.
SOUTHERN LITERATURE SPANISH VII: LINGUISTICS
PROFESSIONAL WRITING Chair: Cheryl Wiltse, Collin College. Chair: Deborah Arteaga, University of Nevada
Chair: Anna Hall, Blinn College. an- cwiltse@collin.edu – Las Vegas. deborah.arteaga@unlv.edu
na.hall@blinn.edu Secretary: Melinda McBee, Collin College. Secretary: Lucía Llorente, Berry College.
Secretary: Leticia French, University of Hou- mcbee58@verizon.net lllorente@berry.edu
ston – Clear Lake. french@uhd.edu
Page 9 SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTERCrossing Borders Between West and East:
Hybridism, Language, and Cultural Ex-
TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM change in Medieval and Early Modern
How are you effectively using technology in the
Iberian Literature
classroom?
This session invites papers that explore
Chair: Jennifer Cedillos, El Paso Community
College. jmart578@epcc.edu the role played by the Iberian Peninsula as
Secretary: Alana King, University of Texas – a place of cultural contact, interaction,
Dallas. axk173530@utdallas.edu and diversity between the West and the
East. Title and brief abstract should be
WAR, LITERATURE & THE ARTS sent.
Chair: Amy Cummins, University of Texas – Rio Proposers: Connie L. Scarborough, Texas
Grande Valley. amy.cummin@utrgv.edu Tech University.
Secretary: Margaret A. Johnson, Langston Uni-
connie.scarborough@ttu.edu
versity. majohnson@langston.edu
David Navarro, Texas State Univ.
WOMEN OF COLOR davidnavarro@txstate.edu
Chair: Christel Woods, Kansas State University. Due Date: February 15, 2018
sapoet@gmail.com
Secretary: Words Made Flesh: The Body as Cross-
Cultural Text
WOMEN’S CAUCUS OF THE SCMLA This session invites papers that examine
Chair: : Christel Woods, Kansas State Universi- relationships between textuality and per-
ty. sapoet@gmail.com
formativity at the crossroads of cultures.
Secretary: Sarah Gray, Langston University.
Send a title and brief abstract.
sbgray@langston.edu
Proposer: Christopher Krejci, Temple Col-
lege. christopherkrejci@me.com
Due Date: February 16, 2018
SPECIAL SESSIONS Mark Twain: Cultures and Crossroads
Below are Calls for Special Sessions. If you Collide
are interested in presenting on any of This session invites papers on the various
these topics, please submit your abstract aspects of Mark Twain's career as a writer,
to the proposer before February 28, 2018, lecturer, and cultural critic.
unless otherwise noted. Send a title and brief abstract.
Proposer: Carolyn Leutzinger Richey,
Tarleton State University.
richey@tarleton.edu
Graphic Texts and Visual Rhetoric: The Due Date: February 16, 2018
Cultural Kaleidoscope
Graphic texts exist at a cultural crossroads
where art and literature collide and
comingle. Send abstracts exploring cultur-
al crossroads in form or content within
graphic texts and other visual rhetoric.
Proposer: Rita D. Costello, McNeese State
University. rcostello@mcneese.edu
Due Date: February 16, 2018 SPECIAL SESSION FINAL
PROPOSAL FORM DEADLINE
Creative Writing: Playwriting
Dramatists will share their scripts
Proposer: David J. Eshelman, Arkansas The priority deadline for the
Tech University. deshelman@atu.edu SCMLA office receipt of Special
Due Date: February 16, 2018 Session proposals is February 28,
2018. Download the form from our
website here.
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 10Poems from the 2017 Poets’ Corner Poets
The Filling Station
At every filling station men
checked the water, oil, and tires
saying, “Ok, miss, you’re ready to go.”
Even out of town, I trusted them.
But for real repairs, I found Mr. Giacomo
on May Avenue. He never looked
for my name in a computer.
He knew me. His was the face
I saw for years, his black hair greased
back, a carefully trimmed mustache,
thick black glasses. His overalls,
rarely spotted, held a red cloth
in his pocket to wipe away
oil and axle grease before
he delivered his diagnosis.
His short plump fingers, nimble
a surgeon’s, saved my car’s life
several times:
“Every problem in a machine, he said
“has a solution. But for the rest of life
you need opera.”
Saturday afternoons he fine tuned
His garage radio to the operas—
his voice bellowed lyrics in Italian,
his hum accompanied all other languages
floating through the purr and roar of engines.
Emotions he said, while replacing a water pump,
pulling a tire, or putting on a fan belt,
are not problems to be solved
but tones to fill the heart.
From him I learned how to live
the tragedies and the comedies
of this small station we call earth.
Abigail Keegan
Abigail Keegan served several years as editor for a women’s poetry journal, Piecework. She
has published three books of poetry: the Feast of the Assumptions, Oklahoma Jour-
ney, and, Depending on the Weather, which was a finalist for the 2012 Oklahoma Book Award.
Her poems have appeared in such journals as Pilgrimage Magazine; The Blue Rock Review;
Red Truck Review: A Journal of Southern Literature and Culture; Crosstimbers; and in an-
thologies: Women Writing Nature; Ain’t Nobody Can Sing Like Me: New Writing in Oklaho-
ma; A Peace Poetry Anthology; and Oklahoma Poems and Their Poets. She has published
critical essays and a study of the British Romantic poet, George Gordon, Lord Byron. Keegan
teaches writing and British Literature at Oklahoma City University.
Page 11 SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTERPoems from the 2017 Poets’ Corner Poets
Renegade
November rides in
from the east
on a blood bay mare
iron spur rowels rattling,
the black brim of his Stetson,
pulled low
above hard, hazel, autumn eyes.
Behind him,
the sky is wearing bones
a line of leafless sycamores
etched against the greying day
in a time of outlaws.
Well aware
the cold is on his heels,
he watches as a rising crescent moon
lifts the black
above not yet winter hills,
cocks the hammer back
and buries the world
under collapsing stars.
Acknowledgment: This poem was first published
in Red River Review and was nominated for a
Pushcart Prize.
Ron Wallace is an Oklahoma native of Choc-
taw, Cherokee, and Osage descent. He is current-
ly an adjunct professor of English at Southeast-
ern Oklahoma State University and is the author
of seven books of poetry, three of which have
been finalists for the Oklahoma State Book
Award. He has been recently published
in Oklahoma Today; San Pedro River Review;
Red River Review; Oklahoma Poems and their
Poets; Concho River Review; Oklahoma Hu-
manities Magazine; Poetry Bay; and a number
of other magazines and journals. Wallace is a
2016 Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of
the 2016 Songs of Eretz Poetry Review Prize.
Page 12Poems from the 2017 Poets’ Corner Poets
Ghazal: Winging It
for my father Skip Carstensen (1943-2015), Airborne Ranger Infantry flying over the desert after
his burial at Arlington
Bless the chosen ones in the back rows stuffed together like artichoke hearts, bless
the rain as it pours on the just and the unjust, bless the passengers and the sweet blessed
hearts of their four wailing, mucous-draining children, bless their mother and father
sneezing into their arms; from the badlands and highways of my oil-rigged heart, bless
you, which is to say: may your heart not suffer, may it take the pressure, the interruption without
fracture, the standbys and straining, the dumbstruck loneliness in its blessed
strickenness, may it keep its rhythm down the arroyos and cracked terrains, its verdant
slopes too, sweeping down from the longing peaks and ventricles from the valleys, bless
each valley of your heart to the valley of the shadow of death, bless the patchwork, burnt-out fields
of your heart, the corrugated folds folding over the staggering clouds, blessed
in their towers and their silver hearts draping over the blessed blue wings of your heart, bless the
engines of your heart, the metal-foil, nuts and bolts of it, and the maker, bless
the screwer of the bolts of it, bless the braver of the heat on the tarmac of your hulking heart, bless
the tundra too, and the numbing blue hands of the one de-icing the blessed
wings in the wintering months of your Arctic heart, bless the flaps and slats, the liftoffs
of your heart; bless propulsion, bless the glide in the glimmering skies of your blessed
dragonfly-heart, bless the landing gears and gentle landings of your runaway, rattling, cocooned
heart, bless the frayed belt of your heart and its belly folding over the blessed
buckles pressed into the narrow seats and fold-out tables, the venae cavae of your heart,
bless the B-rated movies scrolling across your sentimental, guilty pleasure-blessed
heart, bless the gluttony and gorging of your heart, the jagged gorges and berth, bless
the river widening wider, your heart beat a blue schooner sailing far down the blessed
current of your heart toward open sea rolling to a distant shore, the majestic queen palm
sway in your garden-heart, the banyan and thatched roof home nestled in the blessed
hundred-acre wood of your Christopher Robin heart, bless the honey pot, the Elderberry and lilac
of your Huckleberry heart. Bless the bruising pulp and stain, the steam-blessed
log-hauling rigs of your heart, the wolf creeks and salmon rush, the shipyards, the cargo- battered
bulging ports of your heart, bless the coliseums and bridges of your heart, bless
cont’d
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 13Poems from the 2017 Poets’ Corner Poets the risk, the truss and lattice, the shear and cantilever spar, the architect’s vision, the cable-stayed harp and fan design suspending your great heart span by span, bless the tension, the holding, the holding open to one another’s truths, bless its breathing in and out, bless your ride in the lawful land of prey and predator, the one vast mind, bless its accordion-consciousness, expanding, contracting, collecting the data, recording us, the lost homunculus. Take this down, then, inscribe this, release it forever and ever: bless turtle island sliding down the grainy shore like a sand dollar chipped, a cut of shard, light years to find us whole, flying the wilderness, heart-shocked beasts thrumming yes, bless. Acknowledgment: First appeared in The Temple of Shining Mercy by Robin Carstensen. Winning chapbook pub- lished by Iron Horse Literary Review Press, Vol. 18.5. 2017. Robin Carstensen’s poetry can be found in BorderSenses; Southern Humani- ties Review; a Demeter Press anthology entitled Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland; and many more. Her poetry manuscript, In the Temple of Shining Mercy, won Iron Horse Review’s chapbook competition and was pub- lished in Spring 2017. She is also the recipient of an annual first place poetry award from So to Speak: a Feminist Journal of Language and Art and Many Mountains Moving. Carstensen is co-founding editor of the Switchgrass Review: a Journal of Women’s Health, History, and Transformation. She is the senior edi- tor for the Windward Review, an international journal celebrating South Texas. She teaches creative writing and coordinates the Creative Writing Program at Tex- as A&M University-Corpus Christi. SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 14
2018 Poets’ Corner Featured Artists
Tom Murphy has been an editor on Transfer,
Carol Coffee Reposa Box of Words, and Brazos River Review. His po-
etry collection, American History was pub-
lished by Slough Press in 2017. His chapbook,
Horizon to Horizon came out of Strike Syndi-
cate in 2015. Murphy also co-edited the an-
thology, Stone Renga (Tail Feather Press,
2017). In 2016, his poetry was published in the
Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas. Prior to
that, he was the Red River Review’s May 2016
featured poet. Other recent work has been in
Outrage: A Protest Anthology for Injustice in a
Post 9/11 World; 2016 Texas Poetry Calendar;
Beatitude: Golden Anniversary Edition; Centri-
fuge; Nebula; Strike; Switchgrass Review; Voic-
es de la Luna; and Windward Review. Murphy
is a committee member of the People’s Poetry
The poems, reviews, and essays of Carol
Festival of Corpus Christi and has been teach-
Coffee Reposa have appeared or are forth- ing at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
coming in The Atlanta Review, The Evans- since 2001.
ville Review, The Texas Observer, Southwest-
ern American Literature, The Valparaiso Re-
view, and other journals and anthologies.
Tom Murphy
Author of four books of poetry—At the Bor-
der: Winter Lights, The Green Room, Facts
of Life, and Underground Musicians—
Reposa was a finalist in The Malahat Review
Long Poem Contest (1988), winner of the
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Poetry Con-
test (1992), and winner of the San Antonio
Public Library Arts & Letters Award (2015).
She has received three Pushcart Prize nomi-
nations in addition to three Fulbright-Hays
Fellowships for study in Russia, Peru, Ecua-
dor, and Mexico. A member of the Texas In-
stitute of Letters and of the editorial staff at
Voices de la Luna, she has been named
2018 Texas State Poet Laureate.
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 15Katherine Hoerth is an Assistant Pro-
fessor of English and Modern Lan-
guages at Lamar University and serves
as editor of Lamar University Literary
Press. She is the author of five books
of poetry, including her most recent
collection, The Lost Chronicles of Slue
Foot Sue (2018) and Goddess Wears
Cowboy Boots (2014), which won the
Helen C. Smith Prize from the Texas
Institute of Letters for the best book
of poetry of the year. Her poems have
been published in journals such as
Langdon Review of the arts in Texas,
Southwestern Review, and Poetry
South. She is President of the Texas
Association of Creative Writing Teach- Katie Hoerth
ers (TACWT). Katherine lives in Beau-
mont, Texas.
A Poet is,
before anything else,
a person who is passionately
in love with language.
-W.H. Auden
Page 16 SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTERCONFERENCE HOTEL INFORMATION
Our 75th annual conference will be held at the
Menger Hotel
204 Alamo Plaza
San Antonio, TX 78205
October 11-14, 2018
(Thursday—Sunday)
Conveniently located near a
SCMLA rate: variety of shops, restaurants
$139 single/double and entertainment just
one block from the River Walk
plus tax Heated Pool
Fitness Center
Reservations: Full –service Business Center
1-800-345-9285 Valet parking: $18/overnight
Please state you want the “South Central Modern Language Association rate”
when making your reservations. All conference participants must reserve their
rooms with the Menger Hotel by September 20, 2018 in order to receive the
conference rate.
SOUTH CENTRAL NEWSLETTER Page 17Thank you to all those who participated in and attended
the 2017 conference in Tulsa, OK. Your contributions
helped to make the conference a huge success!
SOUTH CENTRAL MODERN LANGUAGE
ASSOCIATION
Editor: José Juan Colín
Executive Director
Published twice a year.
South Central Modern Language Association
University of Oklahoma
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Phone: (405) 325-6011;
Fax: (405) 325-3720;
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