Steven Church, faculty, English Department — Published the essay "On ‘Angel Eyes’ and Bona Fides" for the annual March Badness tournament of bad hits, 1970-1989. Interviewed by Joseph Voth on the Dokken album “Breaking the Chains” for the My Metal Midlife Crisis podcast. Also, presented a lecture on the writing process for Fresno State’s Graduate Writing Studio.

Brynn Saito, faculty, English Department — Shared video readings of the poems “Match” and “Time Being” on the Fresno State MFA YouTube channel, inspired by the Academy of American Poets #ShelterInPoems project.

Alison Mandaville, faculty, English Department — With the Division of Continuing and Global Education, announced the creation of the Reconnect Online Degree Completion Program, which she coordinates. The program gives former Fresno State students who were unable to complete their education a new opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree online.

Lillian Faderman, faculty emerita, English Department — Had the forthcoming reissue of her 2003 memoir “Naked in the Promised Land” reviewed by Tablet Magazine as “an overlooked classic among Jewish women’s memoirs.” Pre-order from Bloomsbury.

Howard V. Hendrix, lecturer, English Department — Published the op/ed "Don’t Leave the Planet Behind in Chase for Profits" in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.

Melanie Hernandez, faculty, English Department — Published the article “Reinscribing La Llorona: A Semiotic Analysis of Anzaldúa’s Prietita and the Ghost Woman and Cisneros’s Have You Seen Marie?” in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.

Venita Blackburn, faculty, English Department — Published the story “How to Wrestle a Girl” in the journal Foglifter.

Lisa Weston, faculty, English Department — Published the book chapter “Embodied Literacy: Paraliturgical Performance in the Life of Saint Leoba,” in the anthology New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture, from ARC Humanities Press.