Thabiti Lewis, associate professor, English, WSU Vancouver, authored “How Fresh and New Is the Case Coates Makes?” in African American Review. Lewis’s edited book Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara will be published by the University Press of Mississippi in May.
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.
Ashley Boyd, assistant professor, English, coauthored “Moving from Self to System: A Framework for Social Justice Centered on Issues and Action” in International Journal of Critical Pedagogy.
Tabitha Espina Velasco, doctoral
student, English, authored the chapter “Palatable Experiences: Identity Formation in the Narratives of Three Generations of Filipinas on Guam” in Reading Diasporas in the Pacific Rim: Interdisciplinary Investigations.
Linda Russo, clinical associate professor, English, authored poems in three publications: Denver Quarterly, Tulsa Review, and Os Pressan, Iceland’s first multi-lingual literary magazine.
Debbie Lee, professor, English, authored two creative nonfiction essays: “She Opened a Space in the Wilderness” in Silk Road Review and “Ponies of Caldbeck Commons” in Newfound: A Journal of Art and Place; and “Storyteller: An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams” in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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.
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 presentation was recorded for C-SPAN3.
Ray Quock, professor, psychology, coauthored “Hyperbaric oxygen treatment suppresses withdrawal signs in morphine-dependent mice” in Brain Research.
Rebecca Craft, professor, psychology, and CAS associate dean, coauthored “Sex differences in alcohol consumption and alterations in nucleus accumbens endocannabinoid mRNA in alcohol-dependent rats” in Neuroscience.