Robin Becker, an instructor in the Department of Writing, will be featured at the New York Comic Convention in New York City on October 9. The panel she’s on is titled,” Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? “and includes a select group of living dead writers. Becker’s book, Brains: A Zombie Memoir, was published in May by HarperCollins.
Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing, recently had his book The Genet Translations: Poetry and Posthumous Plays published by Polemic Press (Pittsburgh). This study culminates 17 years of research, scholarship and literary translation. Also, Spitzer’s campaign for an environmental impact study in a spawning ground of the largest population of alligator gar in Arkansas was recognized nationally in the September 7th edition of USA Today. Conway Corporation intends to build a sewage treatment plant in this location.
John Vanderslice, associate professor in the Department of Writing, recently had his short story “Range of Motion” accepted for publication in Sou’wester magazine.