Stephen M. Payne

Education

M.L.S. program, The University of Southern Mississippi, 1999-2000

• GPA 4.0
  

M.A. Louisiana Tech University, 1991

• GPA 4.00
  Major: Eighteenth-Century British Literature
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• Comprehensive Examination Topics:
  Eighteenth-Century British Literature
  Medieval British Literature
  Twentieth-Century American Literature
  
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M.T.S. program, Harvard Divinity School, 1985-1986

• GPA 3.56
  Major: British Ecclesiastical History 
  

B.A. Louisiana Tech University, 1980-1984

• GPA 3.867
  Major: History
  Minor: English
  

Publications

Workman, James. Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. Edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne. ULL Press, 2024.

High School ELA 11^th-Grade Unit on Samuel Clemens’ “Mardi Gras Letter.” (https:// louisiana-anthology. org/ texts/ twain/ clemens--letter--resources.html). Co-editor with Bruce R. Magee. 2012-Present. Ongoing project.

The Louisiana Anthology. (https:// louisiana-anthology.org/). Co-editor with Bruce R. Magee. 2012-Present. Ongoing digital humanities project. We currently have over 10,000,000 words by over 250 authors.

The Louisiana Anthology Podcast. (https:// louisiana anthology. blogspot. com/). Co-host with Bruce R. Magee. 2013-present. We currently have 635 episodes posted, covering Louisiana literature, culture, history, music, food, etc.

The Louisiana Anthology Cookbook. (https://louisiana anthologycookbook. blogspot.com/). Co-editor with Bruce R. Magee. We currently have 672 recipes, most of them from old Louisiana cookbooks that Bruce’s technical writing students have updated into modern recipe format.

The Satan of the Sky. (forthcoming). Medford, Massachusetts: Steeger Books. Print.

League of the Seventh Son (forthcoming). Medford, Massachusetts: Medford, Massachusetts: Steeger Books. Print.

Master of Madness (reprint). Medford, Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2012. Print.

“Introduction.” Secret Agent “X”: The Complete Series, Vol. 3. Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2010. Print.

Halo of Horror (reprint). Medford, Massachusetts: Altus Press, 2010, Print.

Halo of Horror (serialized novel). Double Danger Tales 14-16 (October-December 1998), Fading Shadows, Inc. (Seymour, Texas). Print.

Master of Madness (serialized novel). Double Danger Tales 1-3 (February-March 1997), Fading Shadows, Inc. (Seymour, Texas.

The Freezing Fiends (serialized novel). Classic Pulp Fiction Stories 11-16 (May-October 1996), Fading Shadows, Inc. (Seymour, Texas). Print.

Other Writing Experience

Copy editor, The Wild Adventures of Tarzan: Back to Mars. (crossover with Tarzan and John Carter), 2023. By Will Murray. (forthcoming Summer 2025).

Copy editor, Secret Agent X Versus Doctor Death. Will Murray, author. Medford, Massachusetts: Steeger Books, Forthcoming 2025.

Editor. Secret Agent X Vol. 3: The Complete Series. Medford, Massachusetts: Steeger Books. Print and E-book. 2009.

Freelance writer, Altus Press/Steeger Books, 2009-present.

Conference Presentations

“Liberty in Louisiana — the New Edition.” The Louisiana Book Festival. October 24, 2024. (Presentation with Bruce R. Magee).

“Catharine Cole — Woman Journalist.” 15^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. September 23, 2023. (Presentation with Bruce R. Magee).

“The Ursuline Correspondence.” 65^th Louisiana Historical Association Annual Meeting. Alexandria, March 17, 2023. (Presentation with Bruce R. Magee.)

“Mariaze Djabe.” 14^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 17, 2022. (Presentation with Bruce R. Magee.)

“Huey Long — Bogeyman or Superman?” 13^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 25, 2021. (Presentation with Bruce R. Magee.)

“Losing Louisiana in the Classroom.” 12^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 19, 2020. (Presentation with Bruce R. Magee.)

Liberty in Louisiana. 11^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 20-21, 2019. (Presentation with Bruce R. Magee.)

“Twelve Years a Slave in the Louisiana Anthology.” (With Bruce R. Magee). Solomon Northup Symposium. LSUA. Alexandria, LA. February 2014.

“The Anthology of Louisiana Literature.” (With Bruce R. Magee). 5th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, October 2013.