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 2018
Book Notes: "Nevertheless, She Persisted: Jane Eyre at 170", Diana Dominguez
Book Notes: "Providing a Voice for a People: The Longevity of Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza", Valerie Garza
Cervantes: The Enduring Survival of the Creative Mind in Don Quixote, Nan Darbous Marthaller
Contributor Biographies, David Aguilar, Omar Baz Radwan, Edward Mahoney, Aamir Aziz, Sulaim Sarfraz, and Adele Hannon
Contributor Biographies, "The Sacrifice of Survival", Natalie Garza and Valerie Garza
Enduring and Prevailing: Ambiguity in Faulkner's Nobel Acceptance Speech, David Rampton
Gender Politics and Dualistic Othering: Possession, Christianity and the Repudiation of the Maternal/Feminine in Desire Under the Elms, Aamir Aziz and Sulaim Sarfraz
"How Delineate the Wretch": Dismantling the Othered Figure Through the Voice of Mary Shelley's Scientific Monster, Adele Hannon
Letter from the Editors. "Confronting and Combating Othering in English Studies", Valerie Garza and Natalie Garza
Letter from the Editors. "The Sacrifice of Survival" Winter 2018; Volume 7, Issue 1, Valerie Garza and Natalie Garza
Living Clocks and Mouments: African Americans in the Sound an the Fury, Edward Mahoney
Notes from the Field, David Aguilar
One Fragment at a Time: The Literature of Deborah Miranda and Wendy Rose, Kristin Leonard
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
We Care About Children, Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Submissions from 2016
A Journey into Our Own Backyard: Helping Students Discover Their Voices and the Treasures of Home, Karina Stiles-Cox
Book Notes: "Language Policy" David Cassels Johnson,New York; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 291 pp.; $36 (soft cover); ISBN: 9780230251700 (soft cover), Alexandre Couture Gagnon
Book Notes: "Love's True Colors" Tiffany Price, Initiate Media Pty Ltd., 2016; ISBN: 0994596820, Mary-Lynn Chambers
Contributor Biographies, "Journeys", Natalie Garza
Contributors' Biographies, Monica Reyes, Imen Mzoughi, Sarah Foust Vinson, Susan Larkin, Beatrice Mendez Newman, and David Aguilar
How to Write about Writing, Monica Reyes
Impossible Reconciliations: The Postcolonial Paradoxes of Journeys in Maryse Condé’s Heremakhonon, Melissa Sande
Letter from the Editor. Rebirth. Volume 6, Issue 1., David Aguilar
Letter from the Editors. "Journeys" Fall 2016; Volume 6, Issue 2, Natalie Garza
Liberation, Renewal, and the Re-Imagination of Self: Wild and Garlic and Sapphires, Sarah Foust Vinson and Susan Larkin
“Making the Land Shiver:” Ana Castillo’s Ecological Politics in "The Guardians", James M. Cochran
On the Appraisal of the Trope of Rebirth in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Imen Mzoughi
Pulling off the Mask: Junot Díaz’s Yunior and Reconstructions of Adolescence, Beatrice Mendez Newman
Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues: The Native American Journey Reflected in Dreams, Tiffany E. Price
The Journey Home: Dangers of Displacement in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, Kavon Franklin
The Master of the Mississippi, The King of the Klondike!: History and Authenticity in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Peter Cullen Bryan
The Topography of Borders: Hybridity, Queerness, and Mexican-American Identity in Rigoberto González’s Butterfly Boy, Gabriela Almendarez
Submissions from 2014
A Letter Home to Parents, Jennifer Jennings Davis
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
Cross-Pollinating the Mind: Reflections at the Crossroads of English and STEM Studies, Cindy Lutenbacher and Alison Ligon
Good Writing, Sally Jarzab
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
Publishing from the Margins, Angelic Rodgers
Review of I Have Always Been Here by Christopher Carmona Brownsville: Otras Voces P, 2013. ISBN- 13: 978-0985737733, R. Dean Straight
Review of The War Against Grammar by David Mulroy Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, Inc., 2003 ISBN: 0-86709-551-2, David Aguilar
The Necessity of Humanities in Medicine: How English Studies and the Arts Contribute to the Human Experience, Ashley Beason-Manes
Trapped, Fathima E. V.
Submissions from 2013
A Dying Author, Jerome Teelucksingh
America of the Broken Heart, Allene Rasmussen Nichols
A Socio-Political Education: One American Teacher’s Musings on Teaching English in China, Heather Brown
Buena Vida, Elizabeth Gill Vidaurri
Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies
Contributors’ Biographies, "The Writer's Experience", Ruth Mikal Garza and Craig E. Price
Crowning the Sonnet Tradition: Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Laura Linker
Disconnect to Connect: Encouraging Student Writing Through Interactive Technologies, Natalie M. Dorfeld
Economics, Clinton Craig
Five Poems, Noel Sloboda
From Prescription to Possibility: Becoming a Writer in J.M. Coetzee’s "Youth", Craig Smith
Idleness, Diligent Indolence, and Embodiment: Creativity and the Composition Classroom, Lindsay Illich
In the line of fire, Catherine Vigier
Letter from the Editors, Ruth Mikal Garza and Craig E. Price
Letter from the Editors. "The Writer's Experience" Summer 2013; Volume 4, Issue 2, Ruth Mikal Garza and Craig E. Price
Politics of Language, Gender and Art in Anita Desai’s In Custody, Hager Ben Driss
Refrain: (They) Let Me Be, Catalina Florina Florescu
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
Table of Contents vol.4 no.1, Journal of South Texas English Studies
Table of Contents vol.4 no.2, Journal of South Texas English Studies
Teaching from the Sidelines: Using marginalia to encourage good writing, Louisa Danielson
The Red Pen: Self-identity through Teacher Feedback, Karina Stiles-Cox
The Submission Process, Dona J. Gelagotis Lee
The Voices in Our Heads: How “Real” Writers Negotiate Criticism, Marcy Tucker and Robin Carstensen
Three Poems, Elizabeth Johnston
Tongues, Ahmad Ghashmari
Two poems, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Two Poems, Dennis H. Lee
Two Poems: "To Abelard from Heloise" & "The Writer" by Laura Linker, Laura Linker
Submissions from 2012
Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies
Enlightenment Revelations: Shakers’ Spiritual Sense, Robin Runia
Repent!, Daniel Klawitter Rev.
Review of Then by Julie Myerson London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. £12.99; $30.25 ISBN: 978-0224093750, Mimosa Stephenson
“Shuffling Through the Ash, Each the Other’s World Entire”: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in the Wake of 9/11, Heidi Stoffer
Sound of the Apocalypse, Steen Christiansen
Table of Contents vol.3 no.2, Journal of South Texas English Studies
Terminating the Technopocalypse in James Cameron’s Terminator Films, Randy Laist
The Endgame of The Road, John Joseph Hess and Julieann Veronica Ulin
Submissions from 2011
An American’s Sunrise, Miriam Hernández
Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies
Contributor Biographies, Journal of South Texas English Studies
Feminine Quest for Individuality in Beowulf and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Semira Taheri
Race, Gender, and Imposed Identities in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, Emily January Petersen
Review of Martha Grimes. Fadeaway Girl. New York: Viking Penguin, 2011., Journal of South Texas English Studies
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
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
Roaring Fissures: Marginal Success in Middleton and Dekker’s Roaring Girl, Laila Abdalla
Sages, Seers, and Saints: Creativity and Liminality in British Romantic Prose, Darlene Leifson