Texas A&M Corpus Christi English Department

04/27/2026

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04/23/2026

The English Department and the Author's Day committee welcomes you to celebrate Author's Day by attending our public reading, led by Juliana Goodman at Lucy's Snackbar, Thursday, April 23, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. This year, our public reading location is off campus and held in the Corpus Christi community.

About the Author

JULIANA GOODMAN was born and raised in Blue Island, Illinois. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Western Illinois University and her MFA in Fiction Writing from Purdue University. Juliana has received several awards and scholarships for her writing and was a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award Finalist. She’s had work published in Sigma Tau Delta’s Rectangle, Blackberry: a Magazine and Fiyah Literary Magazine. Juliana is a literary arts fellow with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. In her free time, she enjoys watching horror films, reading the latest young adult novels, and hanging out with her pit bull, Artie Partie and her cat, Pickle.

In Juliana Goodman's powerful young adult debut The Black Girls Left Standing, Beau Willet will stop at nothing to clear her sister's name. Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown-up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed.

With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?

Location

Lucy's Snackbar

312 N. Chaparral St.

Corpus Christi, TX 78401

04/22/2026

On Monday 4/27, Professor Juliana Goodman and Carmin Hills will host a discussion titled "Danger as Desire: Predatory Relationships in Young Adult Media". Join us from 5-6:30pm in Bay Hall 207. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome!

04/02/2026

Tonight's the night. Please join the College of Liberal Arts tonight for Devoney Looser's lecture on that wild one, Jane Austen!
📍 UC Anchor Ballroom
🗓 April 2
🕒 6:30 pm
TAMUCC's Bookstore will be selling copies of "Wild for Austen" onsite throughout the event from 5:30 pm through the book signing event.

Who should attend?
📚 Literature students
📖 Austen readers
✍️ Writers
🎓 Faculty & community members
If you love literary history, this event is for you.

2 days until we welcome Devoney Looser!
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a leading Austen scholar and get your book signed or buy one at the event.

03/23/2026

Join former TAMU-CC TESOL students to learn about Teaching English abroad. March 25, 2026 from 2:00-3:15 pm. Bay Hall 104. Free pizza!

02/17/2026

Congratulations to English MA Alumnus Benjamin Tudor on his acceptance to the Ph.D. Program at Kent State University. Well done, Ben!

09/19/2025

Great event last night when all five of Corpus Christi poet laureates read, incldung Alan Berecka , Juan Perez , Kiya Vance, and TAMUCC's Robin Carstensen and Tom Murphy. A number of our students read at the open mic that followed, including Laurie Martinez, Charlie Zehr, and first-year student Cole Byrd, who read his poem to an audience for the first time.

09/12/2025

Corpus Friends and Literature Lovers: Great event Thursday, September 18 at 7 pm--all 5 Corpus Christi Poet Laureates reading at the same time, followed by an open mic. TAMUCC's Robin Carstensen and Tom Murphy will be reading. Please join us at 3026 S. Staples. It's free - and all are welcome!

08/15/2025

07/13/2025

TAMU-CC English sponsored a lane at the Corpus Christi Literacy Council's annual Strike for Literacy fundraiser. Pins were knocked down. Fun was had. Scores.... will not be shared. ;)

Thanks to Chris Andrews, Chuck Etheridge, Robin Carstensen and Kathryn Andrews for coming out to play!

06/12/2025

Great event for poetry fans today on the TAMUCC campus! Tom Murphy, who retired from TAMUCC, is the featured poet, but many, many other Corpus area writers will be there. Come on down!