Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “‘Eight-pointed star’: The Legacy of Victoria Urbano and the International Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies” at the 5th International Conference on Women Writers, hosted by the Biblioteca Nacional (National Library) of Costa Rica.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Living and Dying Outside Myth: An Interpretation of Josefina Aldecoa’s Porque Éramos Jóvenes (Because We Were Young)” at II CICELI, 2nd International Conference, “Female Creators in Literary and Intercultural Education,” organized by Universitat de València, Spain.
Maria Serenella Previto, associate professor, career track, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Female Characters and Women’s Agency in Guillermo del Toro’s Filmography” at the II CICELI, 2nd International Conference, Female Creators in Literary and Intercultural Education, organized by Universitat de València, Spain.
Vilma C. Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Marco Antonio De la Parra’s Cuerpos Prohibidos (Forbidden Bodies): A Tyrannical and Neoliberal Chilean Oedipus,” at the 26th International Conference on Literature and Hispanic Studies at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.
John Streamas, associate professor, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Topaz, Utah” by Toyo Suyemoto and his own poem “Social Justice 101” in the GetLit! literary arts festival held annually in Spokane, Wash., but this year hosted online to accommodate social distancing.
Robyn Reeve, doctoral candidate, biological sciences, won first place and the People’s Choice award in the CAS preliminary 3 Minute Thesis competition. She wet on to earn third place in the WSU-wide contest with her presentation “Leptin: Integrator of immune response and regenerations.”
Sue Peabody, professor, history, WSU Vancouver, presented “The Troubles of Sans Souci: Fates of Smuggled Slaves in Isle Bourbon, 1820-1830″ to the New York French History Group, City University of New York Graduate Center, in New York.
Charles Toye, graduate student, languages, cultures, and race, presented “Su espacio propio: heterotopía y feminidad masculina en Los Motivos de Circe, de Lourdes Ortiz.” (“A Space of Her Own: Heterotopia and Masculine Femininity in Lourdes Ortiz’s Circe’s Motives) at the 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Voices of Marginality: Literary and Linguistic Reflections on Cultural Hierarchies in Spain and Latin America,” University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dene Grigar, professor, creative media & digital culture, WSU Vancouver, co-presented “Making, Preserving, and Curating Electronic Literature,” at the Modern Language Association 2020 Convention in Seattle, with five undergraduate researchers and involving work by 11 graduate students.
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.