Journal of South Texas English Studies

Journal of South Texas English Studies

 

The Journal of South Texas English Studies was originally created by the UTB/TSC English Graduate Advancement and Development Society (EGADS!) in March 2009. After the formation of UTRGV, and a hiatus, the journal is now active and accepting submissions. Our journal follows a blind editorial review process and publishes academic articles on a wide variety of areas related to English Studies (literature, rhetoric, composition, linguistics, theory, and pedagogy), as well as critical book reviews. We accept submissions from regional, national, and international contributors. Submissions should follow either MLA 8th edition or APA 6th edition documentation conventions. Detailed format guidelines are found in our Guidelines page. The journal is produced twice each year (Winter and Summer). JOSTES is indexed on the EBSCO Humanities International Index and Humanities International Full-Text Index.

Please note that, as of March 2019, the Journal has ceased publication for the foreseeable future. Previous issues' abstracts are still available for viewing through EBSCO Humanities International Index.

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Submissions from 2018

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Book Notes: "Nevertheless, She Persisted: Jane Eyre at 170", Diana Dominguez

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Book Notes: "Providing a Voice for a People: The Longevity of Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza", Valerie Garza

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Cervantes: The Enduring Survival of the Creative Mind in Don Quixote, Nan Darbous Marthaller

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Contributor Biographies, David Aguilar, Omar Baz Radwan, Edward Mahoney, Aamir Aziz, Sulaim Sarfraz, and Adele Hannon

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Contributor Biographies, "The Sacrifice of Survival", Natalie Garza and Valerie Garza

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Enduring and Prevailing: Ambiguity in Faulkner's Nobel Acceptance Speech, David Rampton

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Gender Politics and Dualistic Othering: Possession, Christianity and the Repudiation of the Maternal/Feminine in Desire Under the Elms, Aamir Aziz and Sulaim Sarfraz

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"How Delineate the Wretch": Dismantling the Othered Figure Through the Voice of Mary Shelley's Scientific Monster, Adele Hannon

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Letter from the Editors. "Confronting and Combating Othering in English Studies", Valerie Garza and Natalie Garza

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Letter from the Editors. "The Sacrifice of Survival" Winter 2018; Volume 7, Issue 1, Valerie Garza and Natalie Garza

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Living Clocks and Mouments: African Americans in the Sound an the Fury, Edward Mahoney

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Notes from the Field, David Aguilar

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One Fragment at a Time: The Literature of Deborah Miranda and Wendy Rose, Kristin Leonard

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Race and Post-9/11 Arab-American Identity: Contestatory Agency and African-American Metaphors in the Poetic Discourse of Suheir Hammad and Andrea Assaf, Omar Baz Radwan

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We Care About Children, Alexandre Couture Gagnon

Submissions from 2016

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A Journey into Our Own Backyard: Helping Students Discover Their Voices and the Treasures of Home, Karina Stiles-Cox

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Book Notes: "Language Policy" David Cassels Johnson,New York; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 291 pp.; $36 (soft cover); ISBN: 9780230251700 (soft cover), Alexandre Couture Gagnon

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Book Notes: "Love's True Colors" Tiffany Price, Initiate Media Pty Ltd., 2016; ISBN: 0994596820, Mary-Lynn Chambers

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Book Notes: "Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives Before 1800" Scheiding, Oliver, and Martin Seidl, eds., Stanford, California; Stanford University Press, 2015; ISBN: 9780804792592, R. Mac Jones

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Contributor Biographies, "Journeys", Natalie Garza

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Contributors' Biographies, Monica Reyes, Imen Mzoughi, Sarah Foust Vinson, Susan Larkin, Beatrice Mendez Newman, and David Aguilar

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How to Write about Writing, Monica Reyes

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Impossible Reconciliations: The Postcolonial Paradoxes of Journeys in Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon, Melissa Sande

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Letter from the Editor. Rebirth. Volume 6, Issue 1., David Aguilar

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Letter from the Editors. "Journeys" Fall 2016; Volume 6, Issue 2, Natalie Garza

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Liberation, Renewal, and the Re-Imagination of Self: Wild and Garlic and Sapphires, Sarah Foust Vinson and Susan Larkin

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“Making the Land Shiver:” Ana Castillo’s Ecological Politics in "The Guardians", James M. Cochran

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On the Appraisal of the Trope of Rebirth in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Imen Mzoughi

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Pulling off the Mask: Junot Díaz’s Yunior and Reconstructions of Adolescence, Beatrice Mendez Newman

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Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues: The Native American Journey Reflected in Dreams, Tiffany E. Price

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Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors Jo Mackiewicz and Isabelle Kramer Thompson New York, NY; Routledge, 2015; $47.95; ISBN: 978-1-315-76859-5 (ebk), David Aguilar

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The Journey Home: Dangers of Displacement in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, Kavon Franklin

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The Master of the Mississippi, The King of the Klondike!: History and Authenticity in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Peter Cullen Bryan

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The Topography of Borders: Hybridity, Queerness, and Mexican-American Identity in Rigoberto González’s Butterfly Boy, Gabriela Almendarez

Submissions from 2014

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A Letter Home to Parents, Jennifer Jennings Davis

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Contributors’ Biographies, David Aguilar, A.D. Beason-Manes, Jenn Jennings Davis, Sarah Dierlam, Fathima E.V, Alison D. Ligon, Cindy Lutenbacher, Angelic Rodgers, and Ronald Dean Straight

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Cross-Pollinating the Mind: Reflections at the Crossroads of English and STEM Studies, Cindy Lutenbacher and Alison Ligon

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Good Writing, Sally Jarzab

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Letter from the Editors. "What Can't You Do With An English Major" Winter 2014; Volume 5, Issue 1, David Aguilar and Ruth Mikal Garza

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Not Trivial: How Studying the Traditional Liberal Arts Can Set You Free by Laurie Endicott Thomas Leawood, KS Freedom of Speech Publishing, 2013 ISBN: 1938634993, Sarah Dierlam

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Publishing from the Margins, Angelic Rodgers

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Review of I Have Always Been Here by Christopher Carmona Brownsville: Otras Voces P, 2013. ISBN- 13: 978-0985737733, R. Dean Straight

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Review of The War Against Grammar by David Mulroy Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, Inc., 2003 ISBN: 0-86709-551-2, David Aguilar

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The Necessity of Humanities in Medicine: How English Studies and the Arts Contribute to the Human Experience, Ashley Beason-Manes

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Trapped, Fathima E. V.

Submissions from 2013

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A Dying Author, Jerome Teelucksingh

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America of the Broken Heart, Allene Rasmussen Nichols

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A Socio­-Political Education: One American Teacher’s Musings on Teaching English in China, Heather Brown

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Buena Vida, Elizabeth Gill Vidaurri

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Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Contributors’ Biographies, "The Writer's Experience", Ruth Mikal Garza and Craig E. Price

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Crowning the Sonnet Tradition: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Laura Linker

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Disconnect to Connect: Encouraging Student Writing Through Interactive Technologies, Natalie M. Dorfeld

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Economics, Clinton Craig

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Five Poems, Noel Sloboda

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From Prescription to Possibility: Becoming a Writer in J.M. Coetzee’s "Youth", Craig Smith

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Idleness, Diligent Indolence, and Embodiment: Creativity and the Composition Classroom, Lindsay Illich

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In the line of fire, Catherine Vigier

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Letter from the Editors, Ruth Mikal Garza and Craig E. Price

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Letter from the Editors. "The Writer's Experience" Summer 2013; Volume 4, Issue 2, Ruth Mikal Garza and Craig E. Price

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Politics of Language, Gender and Art in Anita Desai’s In Custody, Hager Ben Driss

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Refrain: (They) Let Me Be, Catalina Florina Florescu

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Review of A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to Present edited by Margo Culley New York: The Feminist Press, 1993. Pbk, $16.69. ISBN: 9780935312515, Monica Reyes

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Review of A Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth by Stella Borg Barthet Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2009. $125.16 ISBN: 9789042027640, Lamia Khalil Hammad

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Review of Is utopianism a threat to our grand experiment in democracy? Review of Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America by Mark R. Levin New York: Threshold Editions, 2012. $26.99 ISBN: 978-1439173244, Craig E. Price

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Review of Tackling crucial current social issues in Young Adult Dystopian fiction Review of The Farm by Emily McKay New York: Berkley Books, 2012. $9.99 ISBN: 978-0425257807, Margie Longoria

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Review of Where did the heat go? Review of New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory edited by Elaine Showalter New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Out of print; new and used editions available through online booksellers – prices vary. ISBN: 978-0394726472, Ruth Mikal Garza

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Table of Contents vol.4 no.1, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Table of Contents vol.4 no.2, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Teaching from the Sidelines: Using marginalia to encourage good writing, Louisa Danielson

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The Red Pen: Self-identity through Teacher Feedback, Karina Stiles-Cox

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The Submission Process, Dona J. Gelagotis Lee

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The Voices in Our Heads: How “Real” Writers Negotiate Criticism, Marcy Tucker and Robin Carstensen

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Three Poems, Elizabeth Johnston

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Tongues, Ahmad Ghashmari

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Two poems, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

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Two Poems, Dennis H. Lee

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Two Poems: "To Abelard from Heloise" & "The Writer" by Laura Linker, Laura Linker

Submissions from 2012

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Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Enlightenment Revelations: Shakers’ Spiritual Sense, Robin Runia

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Repent!, Daniel Klawitter Rev.

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Review of Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. $24.96 ISBN: 978-0771008689 London: Bloomsbury, 2009. $15.53 ISBN: 978-0771008689, Alan Oak

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Review of Then by Julie Myerson London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. £12.99; $30.25 ISBN: 978-0224093750, Mimosa Stephenson

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“Shuffling Through the Ash, Each the Other’s World Entire”: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in the Wake of 9/11, Heidi Stoffer

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Sound of the Apocalypse, Steen Christiansen

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Table of Contents vol.3 no.2, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Terminating the Technopocalypse in James Cameron’s Terminator Films, Randy Laist

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The Endgame of The Road, John Joseph Hess and Julieann Veronica Ulin

Submissions from 2011

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An American’s Sunrise, Miriam Hernández

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Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Feminine Quest for Individuality in Beowulf and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Semira Taheri

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Race, Gender, and Imposed Identities in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, Emily January Petersen

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Review of Heldris de Cornuälle’s Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance. Sarah Roche-Mahdi (Editor), 1992. 393 pages. (Paperback, $19.95). ISBN-13:9780937191323., Daniel J. Pérez

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Review of Martha Grimes. Fadeaway Girl. New York: Viking Penguin, 2011., Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Review of Oscar Cisneros’s The History of Dying Stars. Oscar S. Cisneros, 2011. 134 pages. (Paperback, $19.99). ISBN-10: 097108243X; ISBN-13: 9780971082434., Diana Dominguez

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Review of Suvir Kaul’s Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2009. 240 pages. ($36.00). ISBN-13: 978-0748634552, Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Review of Tana French’s Faithful Place. New York: Penguin, 2010. 416 pages. (Hardback $25.95). ISBN-13: 9780670021871., Journal of South Texas English Studies

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Roaring Fissures: Marginal Success in Middleton and Dekker’s Roaring Girl, Laila Abdalla

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Sages, Seers, and Saints: Creativity and Liminality in British Romantic Prose, Darlene Leifson