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.
Submissions from 2011
The Myth of the Monster in Mary’s Shelley’s Murder Mystery, Frankenstein, Andrew Keese
Three poems, Prakash Kona
Three poems, Alan Oak
Two poems, Timothy A. Collins
Two poems, Chip Dameron
“What’s the World For If You Can’t Make It Up?”: Making and Remaking Morrison’s Jazz, Shaun Clarkson
When Being is Not a Burden: Naomi Ayala and the Re-Embodying Poetics of Neo-Riqueña Discourse, Roberta Barki
Within language, through language, beyond language: the portmanteau-word neologism as agent and emblem of contingent change., Nicholas Webber
Submissions from 2010
Baby Brother, Maritza Lievanos
Ballad of Tío Teto, Gus Coronado
Book Review. Ian McEwan’s Solar. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2010. 287 Pages. (Hardback, $26.95). ISBN 978-0-385-53341-6., Mimosa Stephenson
Book review of Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death. New York: Berkley Trade, 1996. 432 Pages. (Paperback, $15). ISBN-10: 0425219259, Diana Dominguez
Border Crossing as a Rite-of-Passage, Paul Guajardo
Bridges, Ismail S. Talib
Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies
‘Dreadful Sorry:’ Spots of Passion and the Memory of Being Human in Kaufman’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’[i], June-Ann Greeley
Echoes of Conrad’s Congo, William Guajardo
Exactly the Same but Completely Different: The Evolution of Bram Stoker's Dracula from Page to Screen, Simon Bacon
Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands: Pathway to a Pluralized Persona, Christine Cloud
“Hers is But the Common Lot of all her Protestant and Infidel Sisters:” Margaret Fuller and the Restrictive Language of Spirituality, LuElla Putnam
Hyman Hurwitz and the Possibilities and Limitations of the Sympathetic Imagination in the Work of Hazlitt, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Lindsay Dearinger
Making Room for Guadalupe, Jason Stern
NO LOITERING, Nathanael O'Reilly
Persephone and Hades: A Love Story, Saedah Coello
Slipping into a new skin: Robin McKinley's Deerskin as reclamation of the feminine tradition in fairy tales, Diana Dominguez
Three poems, Yasmin Pena
Submissions from 2009
Author Biographies, "New Beginnings" Volume 1, Issue 1., Andrew Keese
Book review of Kamla K. Kapur’s As a Fountain in a Garden. Chandigarh, India: Tarang P, 2005. 62 Pages. (Paperback, $6.59). ISBN 10: 8170103525, Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal
Culture Shock in Typee and La Relacion, Alan Oak
Facebook: A Technique of Modern Power, Monica Reyes
Livres composés and Musicopoematographoscopes: Brennan as a New Beginning in French Influence on Australian Poetry, Phillip A. Ellis
Thelma and Louise and Sense and Sensibility: New Approaches to Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History Through Literature and Film, Anne-Marie Scholz
The Lotus Sutra as Rhetorical Doctrine: Toward a Spiritual Paradigm Shift in Academia, Erec Smith
Three poems, Alan Oak
Two poems, Jeni Booker Senter