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Genevieve West's Zora Neale Hurston collection makes The Guardian's Best Books of 2020 list

12/8/20

"Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick," the critically acclaimed collection of Zora Neale Hurston works posthumously gathered, edited and published by TWU ESFL professor and chair Genevieve West, PhD, has been selected for The Guardian's best books of 2020 list. Naoise Dolan, author of "Exciting Times," chose the book for its "fluid, polymathic voice."

Music therapy graduate helps patients heal with hope and harmony

12/7/20

Kathleen Montes began her career as a music teacher, but when her father passed away from cancer, she realized music therapy was her true calling. While pursuing her Master of Music Therapy degree at TWU, Kathleen advocated for her own clinical training path in hospice care.

Paranormal frequencies: TWU graduate investigates spooky sounds in media

12/7/20

By merging her passion for music, writing, rhetoric and film, TWU graduate student Regan Dianne Campbell developed an extremely unique area of research: Sonic rhetoric and the use of sounds and music in horror movies and TV shows.

DiAnna Hynds, PhD, to serve as senior editor of 'ASN Neuro'

12/3/20

DiAnna Hynds, PhD, was recently asked to serve as a senior editor on the editorial board for the journal "American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) Neuro." She will primarily work with neurotrauma and neurodegeneration manuscripts for the highly-ranked, open-access journal.

Hynds also serves as a professor in the TWU Department of Biology, an affiliate professor for the TWU Woodcock Institute for the Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice, and as TWU Faculty Senate speaker.

Feminist print culture and storytelling symposium co-hosted by professor Agatha Beins

12/1/20

A feminist print culture and storytelling symposium co-hosted and co-organized by TWU MWGS professor Agatha Beins, PhD, in collaboration with Beth Currans from Eastern Michigan University, was held Nov. 6, 2020, and attracted participants from across the nation. During "Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels" panelists explored traditional and indigenous stories, mass-market fiction, scholarly work, and ephemera to illuminate the politics and processes of storytelling and publishing.