ECL Bulletin 8.20.25
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the Fall 2025 semester. I hope everyone had a good summer.
A particularly warm welcome to our two new colleagues, Brenda Lara and Tyler Grand Pre. We will celebrate their arrival at the first department meeting, Wednesday 10 September, but please feel free to say hello before that.
More info here: https://cal.sdsu.edu/news/new-faculty-2025
Welcome back to Dekel Shay Schory, who taught here in Spring 2024 and reprises her position as a Murray Galinson visiting scholar.
More info: https://www.lfjcc.org/cjc/_Schory.aspx
I am appending a draft copy of this semester’s meeting calendar to this email. At its meeting next week the AC will determine the service roster for the upcoming academic year. Please let me know of any special requests before then. Separately, please let me know if you plan to apply for promotion during this year’s RTP cycle so that workload can be allocated according to department policies.
I know it might seem a way off, but if you are interested in teaching an online, asynchronous course in summer 2026, please let me know by the end of this week. Faculty who teach in the summer are required to have completed specific online training. Please let me know if you would like to be nominated for this training. And, of course, please feel free to reach out if you would like to discuss the options.
Please take a moment to run through this bulletin. There are a number of important informational items at the end.
Upcoming Events:
1. The department and a number of its associated organizations and publications will be represented at the KPBS San Diego Book Festival at USD this coming Saturday. We will have a couple of tables at the event, showing off SDSU Press, Poetry International, and West Coast Review. Stop by if you're in the area. In addition, members of the department will be on the following panels:
10:35 AM -11:20 AM: BUILDING HOPE ON TRAUMATIC TERRAIN IN SCI-FI & FANTASY Location: (KIPJ SECTION B) PANEL DISCUSSION B
(Moderator: Diana Leong, Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature, SDSU)
11:40 AM -12:25 PM: WHEN SCIENCE & MAGIC ENTWINE IN YA FANTASY
Location: (KIPJ SECTION B) PANEL DISCUSSION B
(Moderator: Phillip A. Leavenworth, MFA Fiction, Filmmaker, SDSU)
11:40 AM -12:25 PM: PUBLISHING POETRY
Location: (KIPJ SECTIONS E/F) PANEL DISCUSSION E
Sandra Alcosser, Director & Founder SDSU MFA Program, Editor-in-Chief, Poetry International, Montana’s First Poet Laureate, Author
Blas Falconer, PhD., SDSU MFA Professor, Author, Editor-in-Chief, Poetry International Online
Meagan Marshall, PhD., SDSU Professor, Managing Editor of Poetry International & PI Online, Poet, Performer
Poetry International Editorial Team: Artrice Bennett, Jon Tobias, & Sam Yaziji
2:55 PM - 3:40 PM: MELDING THE REAL AND UNREAL IN ROMANCE
Location: (KIPJ Section B) PANEL DISCUSSION B
(Moderator: William A. Nericcio, PhD., Director of MALAS program, Director & Editor of SDSU Press, Professor, Author)
2. As we do every year, the department will be hosting the “Annual MA & MFA Meet n Greet” mixer for the incoming graduate students (and all our graduate students) on Wednesday, September 3rd. We very much encourage all of you to attend as well. The mixer is an excellent opportunity to meet the new students and to connect with our community after returning from the summer break. New students very much enjoy meeting both faculty and current students at these events. The event will be held at Oggis. The department will provide pizza, salad, and Oggi's Stixs. Please RSVP (mmgarcia@sdsu.edu) no later than Friday, August 29, if you are able to attend the mixer.
3. On Tuesday, 16 September, from 3.30 - 4.45 in the DH Center, Professors Pressman and Leong will be in conversation with Dr. Steve Mentz (Professor of English at St. John’s University) about Ecocriticism, the Blue Humanities, Moby-Dick, and more. He will answer questions about interdisciplinary creative-critical research from all in attendance. Dr Mentz is a pioneer in Blue Humanities, a Shakespeare scholar, poet, and ocean swimmer. He is the author of An Introduction to the Blue Humanities (2023), Ocean (2020), Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719 (2015), At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean (2009), a poetry chapbook, “Swim Poems” (2022), and a book of poems Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels (2024).
Good news:
Check out this story on the E-Lit studio in the Digital Humanities Center, and congratulations to Jessica Pressman and ECL students Joey King, Kasside Sahagun-Escalante, and Jon Tobias.
Congratulations to Bill Nericcio, who presented "Deus [M]ex Machina: Brown Bot Fantasias, AI Hysteria, and the Algorithmic Unconscious in the Age of Angst, Hate, and Resistance” at UC Riverside in the summer: https://www.facebook.com/
Recent MFA graduate Robert Lang is featured in a CSU piece about Fulbright scholars.
Informational items:
Calls for 220 and 280 TA-ships are going out this week, so please be aware that students might ask for references earlier this semester than previously.
As always, please let me know details of recent publications or upcoming events. I look forward to seeing you in the coming days.
All best,
Quentin Bailey
Chair, ECL @ SDSU
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