Texas State University- M.A. in Literature

08/18/2015

Hey Lit students! As we get closer to the start of the Fall semester, here is an upcoming event to look forward to. Tomás Rivera is one of Texas State's most celebrated alum, and this conference celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award created in his honor. The conference will feature 14 authors and illustrators who have won the award in the last decade. As a bonus, lunch will also be served!

If interested, you can register at riverabookaward.org (http://riverabookaward.org/).

I've also attached a program for the book fair happening on Saturday, September 26th, where you can attend readings, performances, and attend a meet and greet with award-winning authors. This event is free and open to the public.

05/30/2015

What is the meaning of life? This may sound simplistic or naïve, especially in relation to much contemporary philosophy, which assumes the question is incoherent and reserves its focus for smaller and smaller slices of experience.

03/08/2015

Upcoming Lecture:

02/23/2015

01/20/2015

The Spring 2015 General Exam is right around the corner! You can sign up by writing your information down on the sign up sheet available outside of FH 361 or emailing the program assistant Deanna at [email protected] with your name, student ID, thesis advisor/committee chair, if you prefer a computer, phone number, and your Texas State email address. The exam will be held Saturday February 7th from 10am-3pm.

11/19/2014

Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society hosted a Women in Academia panel last night where four wonderful professors from our department spoke about being in academia from the PhD level to balancing personal and academic life.

Huge turn out to hear our fantastic panelists share some insight into academic life!

11/17/2014

Tomorrow at 5pm Sigma Tau Delta is organizing a Women in Academia panel in FH 229! If you're interesting in attending, please RSVP to [email protected].

10/23/2014

10/22/2014

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50 years ago today, Jean-Paul Sartre became the first person to decline the Nobel Prize – here’s why: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/22/sartre-nobel-prize/

09/22/2014

Why "the demand for happiness and the patient quest for it" isn't a luxury or a mere need but our existential duty.

09/18/2014

"In the marginalia … we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly -- boldly -- originally -- with abandonment -- without conceit."