Dr. Reva E. Sias, English faculty, published the article “Searching for Myrtilla Miner’s School for Colored Girls: Afrafeminist Strivings, Ethical Representations, and Nineteenth-Century Archives” in the new anthology “Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry” from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Randa Jarrar, English faculty, new memoir “Love Is an Ex-Country” was included in the Newsweek list of “2021’s Most Transporting Books,” in the Cultured Vultures list of “21 Best Books of 2021,” and the Forbes magazine article “13 Books That Will Open Your Eyes to a More Diverse World of Travel.”

Mark Keppler, executive director of The Maddy Institute, will give presentations at two different Rotary Club meetings this week, one in Visalia and one in Bakersfield. He'll present a legislative update for 2022, the "State of the State," on the Governor's office and State Legislature.

Dr. Samina Najmi, English faculty, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for the essay “Trinità,” previously published in Under the Sun magazine. Published the essay “Teaching as a Pakistani American Muslim Feminist: Ten, Twenty Years On” in The Margins, from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop; and the essays “Memoir in Dust” and “Threshold” in the anthology “New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims,” edited by Kazim Ali for Red Hen Press.

Dr. Mary Paul, English lecturer, published the article “Mobile Technology Pedagogy: Improved Student Engagement for Improved Self-Assessment” in the International Journal of Technology in Education.

Charles L. Radke, Division of Research and Graduate Studies staff, published the essay “Mr. Porky Sunshine” with an illustration by Scott Wong.

Brynn Saito, English faculty, was featured in a story on the College of Arts and Humanities blog about her creative writing students finding inspiration in the Stonewall exhibition.

Jessica Turney, TRiO SSSP staff, published the poems “Wound” and “Elegy for Irene” in Mayday magazine.

Mai Der Vang, English faculty, was longlisted for a 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection, from PEN America, for her new book “Yellow Rain.” The book was reviewed by Sarah Kain Gutowski in the New York Journal of Books, by Ronnie K. Stevens in The Poetry Question, by Genevieve Hartman in Gasher Journal, and in The New Yorker. Also interviewed about the book by Sophia Terazawa for The Margins and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, by Diana Khoi Nguyen for the Poetry Foundation, by Kao Kalia Yang for Electric Literature, by Donika Kelly for the Miami Book Fair, by Kathleen Schock for Valley Public Radio, by Tiffany Troy for the Heavy Feather Review, and by Lily Houston Smith for The Rumpus. The book was included in the Lantern Review list “An Asian American Poetry Companion: Fresh Books for Fall 2021.” Received a Humanities for All quick grant from Cal Humanities, for a series of “sudden experiment” workshops in the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio inside the campus library. Published the poems “Take to the Days a Fist of Starlight” in Alta journal, “I Understand This Light to Be My Home” in Poetry Magazine, and “Subterfuge” in Guernica magazine; and the essay “Yellow Rain: A reckoning and re-investigation into the dismissing of Hmong allegations” for Entropy magazine. Her poem “Declassified” was featured on The Slowdown podcast, hosted by the author Ada Limón.