English/Creative Media & Digital Culture
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Dene Grigar, associate professor, English, and director, creative media & digital culture, WSU Vancouver, authored Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing to be published by MIT Press in early 2017. This summer, Grigar was re-elected pesident of the Electronic Literature Organization and chaired its 2016 conference and festival at the University of Victoria, BC. This fall, she will present the keynote address at the International Conference on Digital Media and Textuality at the University of Bremen, Germany, and at the International Digital Media Arts Association conference at Winona (Minn.) State University.
Jana Argersinger, publications editor, English, presented “Relational Aesthetics and the Author(s) of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop’s Memories of Hawthorne” at the American Literature Association conference in San Francisco, where she also presented and chaired the session “Poe and Nineteenth-Century Medicine,” to be developed into a special issue of Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation, one of the journals hosted by the Department of English.
Ruth Gregory, instructor, English, presented her live-action virtual reality series, 
Donna Campbell, professor, English, presented as part of a panel of Jack London scholars at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West and the 
Linda Russo, clinical associate professor, English, authored poems in four recent publications: South Dakota Review, Open Letters Monthly, La Vague Journal, and Datableed (UK).
Roger Whitson, assistant professor, English, authored Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories, to be published in December by Routledge. Whitson also authored “There is No William Blake: @autoblake’s Algorithmic Condition” in 
Tabitha Velasco, doctoral student, English, authored the short story “Departures” in the Festival of the Pacific Arts anthology Local Voices; and her article, “The Sapin Sapin Generation,” appeared in Humanities Diliman by the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Velasco also presented at the University of the Aegean and International Small Islands Studies Association’s “Islands of the World XIV Conference 2016: Niss(i)ology and Utopia—Back to the Roots of Island Studies” in Lesvos, Greece, where she was honored with the ISISA 2016 student scholarship.
, authored “Talking Cures?: Jews and Sex Therapy in Nymphomaniac and A Dangerous Method” forthcoming in Jewish Film and New Media. Two of Siegel’s book chapters, “Ambiguities of S/M” and “Goth Cultures’ Sex/Gender Identity Politic,” will appear in Ambiguity Theory: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Music, (Routledge); and her review of Women in Love: Sexual Experience and the Struggle with Death appeared in The D. H. Lawrence Review.
Virginia Hyde, professor emeritus, English, authored “From the Pueblos to Cambridge: Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays” in Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, also presented in the session “Lawrence, Editions and Critical Renewal” at the Modern Languages Association national convention in Austin, Texas.
Peter Chilson, professor, English, coauthored The Writer Abroad: A Companion for Writing Across Cultures to be published next year by University of Chicago Press. Chilson also authored the essay “Bandiagara: A Town on the Border of Azawad” in Blue: The Architecture of United Nations Peacekeeping Missions for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition held in Venice, Italy. His essay “Welcome to Mali” is to appear this fall in The New England Review.