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Alumni and Emeritus News

Alumni News

Jason Miller (Ph.D. English 2004; Blackburn Fellow 2004-2005) has signed a book contract with The University of Florida Press to publish his manuscript Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture. The manuscript is based on his dissertation about Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop.

Emeritus News

Paul Brians

• "Let's Clear Something Up," Martha Stewart's Blueprint magazine.
• Common Errors in English Usage was excerpted for publication in In Brief, the monthly magazine of the Legal Secretaries International Inc. (April 2007).
• Quoted extensively in July 22nd Ottawa Citizen article by reporter Patrick Langston, observing the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Neville Shute's On the Beach.
• Spoke to three Seattle high school classes as part of WSU's "Professor Share" program. Interviewed by National Public Radio’s Scott Simon about his satirical Web page, “Mr. Gradgrind’s Literal Answers to Rhetorical Questions.” Broadcast on “Weekend Edition Saturday,” July 14, 2007.
• Keynote address, “Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and the Dystopian Tradition.” Seattle's Big Read Project, Shoreline Public Library. September 2007.
• “The Art of the American Comic Strip.” Art a la Carte, Nov. 2007.
  Gave two talks at the Portland Wordstock festival November 11: a workshop entitled “From Web to Print” and a larger address discussing his approach to “Common Errors in English Usage.”
• NBC News purchased nonexclusive rights to Paul Brians’ book, Common Errors in English Usage (William, James & Co.), for use on its new high school education Web-based project, iCue.
• Exhibit of photos from the Palouse and around the world. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections in Holland Library beginning Friday, April 11.

Diane Gillespie

• “Virginia Woolf’s “’Ghosts’: Books, Martyrs, and Metaphors” in Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism: Selected Papers from the Seventeenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf edited by Diana Royer and Madelyn Detloff (Clemson SC: Clemson University Digital Press, 2008).

Virginia Hyde

• "Terra Incognita": Lawrence at the Frontiers. Co-edited with Earl Ingersoll.  (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2009).
• Introduction and essay, “Self and ‘Other’—and a Colossus,” in a guest-edited collection for D. H. Lawrence Studies, Vol. 15.2 (July 2007) from Seoul National University. Most essays came from the Tenth International Lawrence Conference, which Hyde directed.
• A Window to the Sun: D. H. Lawrence's “Thought Adventures.” Co-edited with Earl Ingersoll of SUNY. (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press and Associated Univ. Presses, 2008). Hyde's Introduction is called “A Window to the Sun.”

Stanton Linden

• "Darke Hierogliphicks": Alchemy in English Literature from Chaucer to the Restoration (Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1996) has just been reprinted in a paperback edition.
• Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, Jan./Feb. 2008.
• “Mystical Metal of Gold”: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture. AMS Press, 2007. Includes Linden's introduction and essay, “Smatterings of the Philosopher's Stone: Sir Thomas Browne and Alchemy.”

Camille Roman

• Contributed articles to The Langston Hughes Newsletter, The Robert Frost Society News, and the Frost Society website.
• Co-developed a web site with the Ernest Hemingway Society and Foundation for the MLA 2007 Frost/Hemingway roundtable.
• Photo-essay on the Frost/Hemingway roundtable/reception will be published in The Ernest Hemingway Newsletter, on its website, and the roundtable's website.
• Will publish an essay about her discovery of an unpublished speech manuscript strongly critical of U.S. Cold War policy given by Frost in Brazil during his State Department-sponsored visit in 1954, in The Robert Frost Newsletter.
• Hosted five events as president of the International Robert Frost Society at the 2007 MLA conferencein Chicago. With the Ernest Hemingway Society and Foundation, she organized, wrote, and moderated a roundtable on Frost and Hemingway. The roundtable was the first scholarly event to consider both Frost and Hemingway together and the first event at MLA to be cosponsored by two author societies. The transcription of this historic roundtable is being acquired by The John F. Kennedy Library and will be made available in 2008 at the library and on its website. Roman was honored, along with other roundtable participants, at a reception at MLA at the Intercontinental Hotel.
• Chairing two panels on Frost as well as a business meeting for the society at the American Literature Association conference in San Francisco, May 2008.

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