History
adrianaBrian Stack, graduate student, history, authored “From Sodomists to Citizens: Same-Sex Sexuality and the Progressive-era Washington State Reformatory” in Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming).
Brian Stack, graduate student, history, authored “From Sodomists to Citizens: Same-Sex Sexuality and the Progressive-era Washington State Reformatory” in Journal of the History of Sexuality (forthcoming).
Ryan Booth, doctoral candidate, history, received the 2018 Western History Association Graduate Student Prize.
Matthew Sutton, professor, history, presented “Spies and unHoly Lies: How American Missionaries-Turned-Covert-Agents Helped Win World War II and Shape the Future of U.S. Intelligence” at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jon Hegglund, associate professor, English, authored the chapter “Unnatural Narratology and Weird Realism in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation” in Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology (forthcoming, Ohio State University Press); and “A Home for the Anthropocene: Planetary Time and Domestic Space in Richard McGuire’s Here” in Literary Geographies (forthcoming). Hegglund also presented the invited lecture, “Alien Expressions: Language, Faciality, and Anthropomorphism,” at the Personification Across Disciplines conference in Durham, England.
Read The Current to learn about other recent honors and achievements by members of the Department of English.
Anna Plemons, assistant professor, English, authored the chapter “Something Other Than Progress: Indigenous Methodologies and Higher Education in Prison” in Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching With Imprisoned Writers (Syracuse University Press).
Tabitha Espina Velasco, graduate student, English, presented “Navigation and Negotiation in the Narratives of the Halo Halo Generation” at the 16th Islands of the World Conference 2018 (ISISA2018): The Changing Futures of Islands” in Leeuwarden and Terschelling, the Netherlands. There she was awarded her second ISISA student scholarship.
Pamela Thoma, associate professor, English, presented “The Handmaid’s Tale: Missing Children and Sanctifying Motherhood in Popular Narratives of Decline” at Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, in Bournemouth, England.
Lindsey Beltz, doctorate student, and Jennifer Schwartz, professor, sociology, presented “Trends in Female and Male Drunk Driving Prevalence over Thirty Years: Triangulating Diverse Sources of Evidence” during the section on Sociology of Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Sheryl DeShields, secretary senior, psychology, received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award.
David Marcus, chair and professor, psychology, was named Group Psychologist of the Year by the American Psychological Association’s Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy (Division 49). Marcus is a society fellow and current editor of its journal Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice.