Skip to main content Dr. Cecily Gordon Parks
- Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- Board Member, Columbia Alumni Association.
December 2024 - Present.
- University Mentor, Mentorship Committee.
August 2024 - Present.
- Undergraduate Advisor, Wordplay Poetry Club.
August 2024 - Present.
- Board Member, Austin Bat Cave.
2023 - Present.
- Co-Chair, Search Committee, Katherine Anne Porter House Writer-in-Residence.
2023 - Present.
- Chair, Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center & Reading Series.
June 2022 - Present.
- Chair, Therese Kayser Literary Committee.
June 2022 - Present.
- Member, Creative Writing Committee.
2014 - Present.
- Member, MFA Committee.
2014 - Present.
2025
- Member, Search Committee, English Department Chair.
August 2024 - February 2025.
2024
- Reviewer / Referee, Austin Youth Poet Laureate Program.
September 2024 - November 2024.
- Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.
November 2023 - February 2024.
2023
- Member, Search Committee, Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
September 2023 - December 2023.
- Reviewer / Referee, PMLA.
February 22, 2023.
2022
- Member, TKL Committee.
January 30, 2017 - 2022.
- Member, Search Committee, Assistant to the Director of the MFA Program.
October 2022 - November 2022.
- Reviewer / Referee, Creighton University.
October 3, 2022.
2019
- Member, Graduate Studies Committee.
September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019.
- Member, IA/TA Hiring Committee.
September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019.
- Member, English Department Endowment Committee.
September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2019.
- Adjudicator, Conversation with Karen Olsson, author of "The Weil Conjectures," at BookPeople.
August 27, 2019.
- Adjudicator, Fulfilled blurb request for Tyler Detloff's "Belly Up Rosehip".
July 2019.
- Interim Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing.
August 2018 - May 2019.
- Member, IA/TA Hiring Committee.
August 2018 - May 2019.
- Reviewer / Referee, Judge, Texas Writers' League 2018 Poetry Award Contest.
March 2019 - April 2019.
- Speaker, Becker Elementary School.
April 22, 2019.
2018
- Adjudicator, Fulfilled blurb request for Kristen Case's "Principles of Economics" (Switchback Books, 2019).
November 2018.
- Reviewer / Referee, Judge for the Wyoming Wyoming Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry.
June 2018.
- Adjudicator, Fulfilled blurb request for Stephanie Anderson's "If You Love Error So Love Zero" (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018).
April 2018.
2017
- Organizer, Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry: Documentary Screening and Conversation with filmmaker Laura Dunn and Professor Jimmy McWilliams Department of History.
October 3, 2017.
- Member, Search Committee for the Assistant to the Director of Creative Writing.
May 2017.
- Participant, Environment & Place in English Studies Faculty Panel, Hosted Sigma Tau Delta and The Texas State Writing Center.
April 19, 2017.
- Organizer, Classroom Visits and Poetry Reading by Mónica de la Torre.
April 9, 2017 - April 11, 2017.
- Editorial Review Board Member, Alice James Books.
January 1, 2014 - February 4, 2017.
2016
- Organizer, Texas State MFA Faculty Reading at Malvern Books.
October 9, 2016.
- Speaker, Riojas Elementary School.
March 9, 2016.
2015
- Organizer, Visiting Poet Joanna Klink (Tenure-Track Faculty Initiated Visiting Scholar Series, sponsored by the Department of English and the Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary Series).
September 1, 2015.
