Wendy Dasler Johnson, associate professor, English, WSU Vancouver, authored Antebellum American Women’s Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment (Southern Illinois University Press), which was nominated for four awards: Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award, the Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics Gary A. Olson Award, the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, and the Rhetoric Society of America Book Award.
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.
Paul Verrell, associate professor, biological sciences, authored How to be a scholar: Smoothing the transition from high school to college…and beyond, published by Kendall Hunt.
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 Essays in Romanticism, and co-edited a special issue of Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons on “William Blake and Pedagogy.” He also presented “There is No William Blake: Twitterbots, Artificial Intelligences, and Posthuman Conditions” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference at University of California, Berkeley.
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.
Michelle McGuire, associate professor, and Kathy Beerman, professor, biological sciences, coauthored a new textbook “NUTR, 2nd Edition” published by Wadsworth.
Amy Mazur, professor, politics, philosophy, and public affairs, co-edited the forthcoming Oxford University Handbook on French Politics and coauthored three of its 30 chapters. She also authored “Does Feminist Policy Matter in Post Industrial Democracies?: A Proposed Analytical Roadmap” forthcoming in Journal of Women, Politics and Policy; coauthored with Season Hoard, clinical assistant professor, and another colleague, “Comparative Strength of Women’s Movements Over-time: Conceptual, Empirical and Theoretical Innovations” in Politics, Groups and Identities; and coauthored “Gender and Causal Concepts: Implications for Comparative Theory-Building” in Politics and Gender.