The 2024 issue of Kansas English, the award-winning peer-reviewed journal of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English (KATE), is now available on WSU’s Open Journal Systems. Katie Cramer, professor of English education, has served as editor-in-chief of Kansas English since 2017 and collaborates with Susan Matveyeva, journal manager of Univeristy Libraries, to publish the journal each year.
This year’s issue of Kansas English was published June 25 and features the work of several WSU-affiliated faculty, graduates and students in addition to scholarly and creative work from authors across the state and region:
- Nathan G. Whitman, WSU alum and KATE president, published “Perspectives from the President.”
- Carrie Dickison, associate teaching professor and assistant director of WSU’s Writing Program, published “Revising Writing Assignments in Response to Generative AI.”
- WSU students Michelle Anderson, Baylee Reyes and Mattelyn Swartz co-authored a children’s book review entitled “Unveiling Courage: A Review of Trudy Ludwig’s Brave Every Day.”
- 2024 WSU graduate Haven Massey had two pieces published: a reflective essay entitled “Do As I Say and As I Do: Creating Strong Writers by Emphasizing and Modeling the Process” and a young adult book review entitled “Monumental Stories Found in We Deserve Monuments.”
- 2024 WSU graduate Danika Pester published a young adult book review entitled “A Glimpse of McCurdy: Her Rise & Fall from Fame in I’m Glad My Mom Died.”
- In addition, the 2024 editorial review board includes several WSU faculty and alumni: Robin Folkerts, Krystal Iseminger, Sally Kimball, Victoria Opalewski, Blake Overman, Nancy Sturm, Keely Tolbert, Nathan Whitman and Dr. Kim Wilson.
Those interested in submitting their work to Kansas English can review the call for general submissions as well as the call for column submissions.