John Barber, instructor, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver, authored “Imaginative Radio Plays” which was selected for exhibition in the Helicotrema Festival 2017, part of the Venice Art Biennale in Venice, Italy.
Jeff Pearson, instructor, English, won the 2017 New Alchemy Prize from Permafrost, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks literary journal, for his series, “User Reviews of Medications.”
Roger Whitson, assistant professor, English, authored “The Difference Engine: 1832, 1855, 1876, 1991, 2002, 2008” in BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History.
Donna Campbell, professor, English, authored “The Victim as Vampire: Gothic Naturalism in the White Slave Narrative” in Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism (University of Alabama Press).
Dene Grigar, professor and director, English/creative media and digital culture, WSU Vancouver authored “The Legacy of Uncle Roger” in #WomenTechLit, and the introduction, “‘Syn[ning]’ Bravely: Introduction to Next Horizons” in Hyperrhiz.
The Sustainable Heritage Network, directed by Kim Christen, associate professor, English, and director, digital technology and culture, received the Council Exemplary Service Award from the Society of American Archivists.
Michael Delahoyde, clinical professor, and Leeann Hunter and Bryan Fry, clinical assistant professors, English, received the Associated Students of Washington State University’s 2017 Exceptional Professor Award for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dene Grigar, director and professor, Creative Media and Digital Culture/English, WSU Vancouver, co-authored Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Digital Writing (MIT Press).
Buddy Levy, clinical professor, English, coauthored with Erik Weihenmayer No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon.
Anna Plemons and Beth Buyserie, clinical assistant professors, and Patricia Freitag Ericsson, associate professor, English, coauthored the chapter “Retention, Critical Pedagogy, and Students as Agents: Eschewing the Deficit Model” in Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs (University Press of Colorado). The trio also will present “Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs: Supporting Student Success” at the National Conference on College Composition and Communication in Portland, Ore., in March.