 Peter Anderson, associate professor of English, has written his first novel, The Unspeakable, which won the 2013 Alex La Guma Award in International Novel. Originally from South Africa, Anderson has been a member of the Austin College faculty since 2006. Told in the first person by a central character, his novel centers on the conflicted being of the white male under apartheid. Anderson presented talks on his book on campus this fall. |
 Ruth I. Cape, associate professor of German, has edited a bilingual and annotated edition of a collection of letters, New World View: Letters from a German Immigrant Family in Texas, 1854-1885. The book spans three decades, describing the sea voyage of Christian Friedrich Bergmann and his family; their settling in Boerne, Texas, as farmers and ranchers; and the challenges faced in adapting to American culture. The collection was provided by Gene Steele, a Grayson County man who has been involved with Cape’s classes and is a great-grandson of Christian Friedrich Bergmann. Several advanced German students were involved in the book project. |
  Light Cummins, Guy M. Bryan Chair of American History, released On History’s Trail: Speeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012, about his time as Texas State historian. The book was launched at a gathering of the Texas State Historical Association in November at DeGolyer Library at SMU in Dallas. Cummins and two colleagues edited Discovering Texas History, released this fall. It surveys the historical writings over the last 25 years that have been written about Texas history. “It is a ‘history of history’ so to speak,” Cummins said. |
 George Diggs and colleague Barney Lipscomb of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) have released their latest effort, Ferns & Lycophytes of Texas, to catalogue the plants of Texas. The book explains the diversity of Texas ferns and provides an encyclopedic view of the varieties. Diggs, the Donald MacGregor Chair in Natural Science at Austin College, is a research associate at BRIT and has co-authored other books with Lipscomb. |
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