Student Publications

Agora
Agora is a refereed research journal sponsored by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. It is published twice a year online, and each issue features papers and book reviews written by undergraduates and reviewed by professors.

Big Tex[t]

While Big Tex[t] is not a regional publication, our editorial stance is derived from our connection to the cultural and geographic shatterbelt of Texas- the complex mingling of ethnicities, cultures, and environments that we observe each day. Sixty-some years ago, folklorist J. Frank Dobie looked forward to a day when the mesquite tree had as much poetic resonance as the English yew. At Big Tex[t] we celebrate not just the humble Texas mesquite, but all landscapes, all poetics. We encourage artists to locate themselves, to look at their lives and that portion of the world which they know, and to write it. However, it is too often that different styles and genres then retreat into the comfort of their own back yards, unexposed to any but those already familiar. This is a place for the intermixing of regions, where Northeast and Southwest, plains and coastlines somehow connect. This is a place where High Culture and Low Brow stand side by side. This is a place where unlikely friendships can be made. This is a place where back yards meet. (Mission, 2005)

Reference: [t] mission statement. (2004). Texas A&M English Department. Retrieved August 30, 2005, from http://www2-english.tamu.edu/pubs/bigtext/mission.php