Julie Kmec, professor, and Lindsey Trimble O’Connor, alumna, sociology, coauthored “Is It Discrimination, or Fair and Deserved? How Beliefs about Work, Family, and Gender Shape Recognition of Family Responsibilities Discrimination” in Social Currents.
William Brecher, associate professor, history, co-edited Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War (University of Hawaii Press).
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Time in History and History in ‘Colored People’s Time’: Octavia Butler and Ruth Ozeki Cross the (Time) Lines” at the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle.
Tabitha Espina, doctoral candidate, English, presented “Toward Decolonial Oceanic Futures: (Re)mapping Settler Relations through Island/Indigenous Feminisms in Guåhan and Hawai’i” at the American Studies Association National Conference at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu. She also coordinated and moderated the roundtable, “Visions of the Past, Present, and Future with the Filipino American Community in Yakima,” at the Filipino Community Hall in Wapato, Wash., as part of her Humanities Washington Graduate Fellowship and sponsored by Humanities Washington, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions.
Dene Grigar, professor and director, creative media & digital culture, WSU Vancouver, was interviewed in “The Computer Is Not a Tool to Help Us Do Whatever We Do, It IS What We Do, It Is the Medium in Which We Work,” by Piotr Marecki in Przeglad Kulturoznawczy.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Asia-Pessimism: Modeling a Revolution in Failure” in The Comparatist.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, authored “Dibujar para subvertir: Cuerpo, género y poder en las crónicas y los diarios gráficos de Marcela Trujillo” (“Drawing to Subvert: Body, Gender, and Power in Marcela Trujillo’s Chronicles and Graphic Diaries”) in Revista Canadiense de Estudio Hispanicos.
Joe Hedges, assistant professor, fine arts, exhibited his collection Hypercombines at Artworks Gallery in Loveland, Colorado.
Scott Blasco, associate professor, music, composed “Momentia/Minutia” for marimba quartet recorded by Heartland Marimba Quartet on their new album, Vision.
John Barber, associate professor, and Greg Philbrook, technician, creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, coauthored the multimedia exhibit Remembering the Dead, a memorial to victims of mass shootings across America, jury selected for presentation at the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. They also coauthored the exhibit Sound Spheres, jury selected for the exhibition/creative track of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Hypertext 2019 Conference, Institute of Information Systems at Hof University, Germany.
In addition, Barber recently served as producer, dramaturge, and director of the live performance and online streaming of the five-part “Halloween Fright Night Live,” featuring episodes from Lights Out, Quiet Please!, and Suspense, for his Re-Imagined Radio project .