Creative Media and Digital Culture/English
adrianaWill Luers, instructor, Creative Media and Digital Culture/English, WSU Vancouver, is corecipient of a first place Robert Coover Award from the Electronic Literature Organization for Novelling.
Will Luers, instructor, Creative Media and Digital Culture/English, WSU Vancouver, is corecipient of a first place Robert Coover Award from the Electronic Literature Organization for Novelling.
Peter Chilson, professor, English, received Peace Corps Worldwide’s Best Travel Book award 2017 for his co-authored publication Writing Abroad: A Guide for Travelers (University of Chicago Press).
Kirk McAuley, associate professor, English, was awarded an American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Keough-Naughton summer fellowship at the University of Notre Dame. He also presented his research on Robert Louis Stevenson at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Supernumerary Conference at the University of Roma Trė in Rome, Italy.
Carol Siegel, professor, English, WSU Vancouver, received a fellowship through the WSU Office of Research 2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program for her monograph project, “Sexed, Raced, and Erased: Jews in Contemporary Visual Media.”
Leah Benedict, clinical assistant professor, English, received the 2018 WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award in recognition of her dedication to introducing students to the many facets of library research beyond finding and evaluating resources.
William Hamlin, professor, English, was selected to receive the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship, and the Arts at WSU Showcase 2018. Hamlin studies how major writers and intellectual movements were understood and incorporated into the cultural life of early modern England.
Dene Grigar, professor and director, and John Barber, clinical associate professor, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, were invited speakers at the first electronic literature conference in the Arab world, Arab Electronic Literature: New Horizons and Global Perspectives, hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by Rochester Institute of Technology. Grigar presented “Preserving a Cultural Legacy of Born Digital Literature.” Barber presented, “Sound and Electronic Literature.” Barber’s sound art work, “There and Back,” was one of seven international works invited for a curated exhibition associated with the conference.
Kimberly Burwick, clinical assistant professor, English, authored a new poetry collection Brightword (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming).
Ashley Boyd, assistant professor, English, authored Social Justice Literacies in the English Classroom: Teaching Practice in Action (Teachers College Press, forthcoming).
Buddy Levy, clinical professor, English, appears in two episodes (3 & 4) of producer Leonardo DiCaprio’s television series The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen, which premieres on HISTORY (A&E Network) March 7 and features research from Levy’s book American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett.