Student Awards and Accomplishments
Graduate Students
Lisa Anderson’s article “Justice to Ruth Morse: The Devolution of a Character in Martin Eden” appeared in volume 10 of The Call: The Magazine of the Jack London Society. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Jack London Symposium in Pasadena, California, in October 2008.
Katie Arosteguy presented her paper, “ ‘Not Latina Enough’: The Politics of Race and Culture in Contemporary American Chica Lit” at the April 2-5 MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) conference in Spokane.
Rosemary Briseño's paper, "Facing the Medusa: Toward Possession of a Pragmatic Assimilationist's Positionality," was accepted by the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa at El Mundo Zurdo: The First International Conference on the Life and Work of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa in San Antonio, Texas, May 15-17, 2009.
Ben Bunting presented “Bring Your Own Mythology: Complicating Ideas of the American Frontier” at the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference.
Andrea Campbell presented "Imagining Alternate Realities: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy and Rejecting the 'Natural'" at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), which was held June 3-6, 2009, at the University of Victoria (BC).
Jared Colton's abstract entitled "Toward a Reconciliation of the Theory and Practice of Invitational Rhetoric" was accepted for this year's RMMLA Conference.
Erin Mae Clark has been awarded the Jack W. Sr. and Mary E. Howard Memorial Scholarship by the College of Liberal Arts. Also, she presented her paper, "Telling the Tale of Trauma: 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and Nineteenth Century Discourses on Trauma and Disability" as part of the Poe Studies Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in Philadelphia.
Pearce Durst’s paper has been accepted for the 2009 RMMLA Convention in Snowbird, Utah on October 8 - 10, 2009. The paper, "Nuclear Rhetoric: The Rhetoric of Nonviolence," will be presented as part of the individual session "Writing Survival: Coping with and Learning from Violence in Literature."
Donna Evans has been awarded a Harold and Jeanne Rounds Olsen Writing Across the Curriculum Graduate Fellowship for 2009.
Jim Haendiges and Chris Ritter, along with former WSU M.A. student Mike Garcia, gave presentations at the 4Cs in San Francisco. Their panel was entitled, "On Making Waves Without Falling Out of the Boat: The Experience of Composing an Electronic Dissertation." It was chaired by Dr. Cynthia Selfe.
Seth Huebner spoke at the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) conference in Victoria, British Colombia in June. His paper was on ecocriticism and ecological dwelling.
Jacob Hughes presented portions of his thesis, "Shakespeare the Chaucerian", at Concordia University's Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference in Portland, Oregon. His article, "A Monstrous Pedagogy," will appear in the upcoming issue of the Rocky Mountain Review.
Toria Johnson and Julie Meloni were given a Learning Community Excellence Award for their work in Freshman Focus, during the Office of Undergraduate Education awards ceremony on Thursday, April 9, 2009.
Kris Kellejian and Paul Muhlhauser presented a panel "Invisible Classrooms Revealed: Digital Technologies as Hidden Teachers" at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Julie Meloni's “Art for Whose Sake? Owen Wister’s Negotiation of Literary Borders in The Virginian” was presented at the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference. She and Toria Johnson gave a Learning Community Excellence Award for their work in Freshman Focus, during the Office of Undergraduate Education awards ceremony on Thursday, April 9, 2009. Also, she has been awarded a Harold and Jeanne Rounds Olsen Writing Across the Curriculum Graduate Fellowship for 2009. She participated in a roundtable discussion, "The Virtues of the Virtual: Using Blogs to Communicate Place across Space" at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), which was held June 3-6, 2009, at the University of Victoria (BC). She has won the 2009 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Student Travel Grant award for her paper "'How intensely I desire to be a Humboldt!': Scientific and Philosophical Influences on the Early Literature and Environmental Ethics of John Muir." The paper was presented at the NCSA conference on March 26-28, 2009, where the award ceremony was held.
Amber LaPiana’s panel proposal, "19th-Century Poetry vs. the Poetess" for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference in Philadelphia was accetped.
Andrew McCarthy was presented with the 2009 Avon J. Murphy Scholarship.
Jessica McCarthy was nominated for the 14th annual Women and Leadership Forum Outstanding Mentor Awards. She was also presented with the Harriett B. Rigas Award for outstanding doctoral student at Washington State University by the Association for Faculty Women.
Paul Muhlhauser was a presenters and facilitators at a Pre-Conference Workshop "Assigning and Assessing: Multimodal Composition and Classroom Practice" at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication. He also presented a panel with Kris Kellejian entitled "Invisible Classrooms Revealed: Digital Technologies as Hidden Teachers" at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication. He was nominated for the 14th annual Women and Leadership Forum Outstanding Mentor Awards.
Alex Parrish has "completed" the encyclopedia article and is now awaiting the first round of editor's comments. The article is on the subject of evolution and its role in U.S. history, and will be published in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Environmental History (2010?).
Anne Ritter's piece "Band-Aids and Birth Control" has recently been accepted for publication by the editors at The Truth About The Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction in the Spring 2009, Volume IV Number I issue. The journal received over 350 submissions from the international literary community, including impressive narratives about life in South Africa, India, China, Canada, Great Britain and the United States, and hers was one of the 35 selected for publication.
Christopher Ritter was presented with the 2009 TA Distinguished Teaching Award.
Also, he and Jim Haendiges, along with former WSU M.A. student Mike Garcia, gave presentations at the 4Cs in San Francisco. Their panel was entitled, "On Making Waves Without Falling Out of the Boat: The Experience of Composing an Electronic Dissertation." It was chaired by Dr. Cynthia Selfe.
Sheri Rysdam, presented her paper, “Communities of Difference: Exploring the Political Economy of Communal Utopia in Multicultural Feminist Literature and Theory” at the April 2-5 MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States) conference in Spokane. She presented her work-in-progress "Confronting Politics in Composition Pedagogy” at the Research Network Forum (RNF) in March at 4Cs in San Francisco.
Stephanie Schatz presented the following paper at the RMMLA conference: “'I Am Not Only Myself': Stereotype Threat and Critiques of Nationalism in South Asian Diasporic Narratives." She will also present the following paper at the Literature and Pathology conference this May at UC Davis: "'Miniature Insanity': Lewis Carroll's Alice, Fractured Consciousness, and the Psychopathology of Victorian Child Madness."
James Trout was presented with the 2009 Graduate Seminar Writing Award. He also presented "One More Strange Island: How Homer Wields the Pastoral as Cultural Critique" in a "paper jam" session at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), which was held June 3-6, 2009, at the University of Victoria (BC).
View the Spring 2009 M.A. Conference
Undergraduate Students
Alayna Alamos - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Writing Award
Katie Chew - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship
Jillian Clark - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Writing Award
Joshua Clark - 2009 Appreciation Awards for the Editors of Landescapes
Jessica Eaton - 2009 Murray W. Bundy Scholarship
Thomas Fortune - 2009 Appreciation Awards for the Editors of Landescapes
Kelly Freese - 2009 Emmett Avery Writing Award
Lainey Guddat - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship
Kelley McDaniel - 2009 Jennie Brown Rawlins Scholarship.
Colleen Heckman - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship
Jennifer Kurz - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship
Cayla Lambier - 2009 Appreciation Awards for the Editors of Landescapes
Evan Louro-Reyes - 2009 Emmett Avery Writing Award
Ripley Marvin - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship
Francis McVay - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship
Claire Mikalson - 2009 Outstanding Senior
McKenzie Mohler - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship, 2009 Instructors' Award
Rachael Nelson - 2009 Appreciation Awards for the Editors of Landescapes
Spenser Phelan - 2009 Basil and Ella Jerard Scholarship
David Plell - 2009 Ruth Slonim Poetry Award
Lauren Ringwood - 2009 Emmett Avery Writing Award
Marisa Sandoval - 2009 April Seehafer Scholarship