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Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
Chris Arigo
- Article "Notes Toward an Ecopoetics: Revising the Postmodern Sublime and Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs" is now out in HOW2's special Ecopoetics feature.
Jana Argersinger
- Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship. Ed. with Leland S. Persons, Univ. of Georgia Press, 2008.
- Poe Writing/Writing Poe, ed. with Richard Kopley. AMS Press (forthcoming 2009).
- Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), elected president (2006-2007).
- Will co-curate and contribute to a multi-essay feature on the profession of journal editing. Profession (forthcoming 2009)
Kristen Arola
- Gave an invited lecture at Spokane Falls Community College as part of the college-wide annual theme, "Self-Creation: Defining Self in a World of Info Overload." The talk focused on her work with mixed-blood American Indian online representations.
- "The Design of Web 2.0: The Rise of the Template, The Fall of Design." Computers and Composition. (forthcoming).
"Digital Regalia: Listening to the Rhetorics of Native American Identity." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. April 2008. - From Pocahotass to Bezhgiizhig: Redefining Native American Identity through MySpace." Computers and Writing Conference. Detroit, MI. May 2007.
- "A Conversation: From 'They Call Me Doctor?' to Tenure." Co-Authored with Cheryl E. Ball. Computers and Composition Online. (Spring 2007)
- Runner-up for the Kairos Best Webtext Award of 2006-07.
- Review. New Media, 1740-1915. Eds. Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003. in Technical Communication Quarterly. 16.4 (2007). 480-483.
- ix tech comm: Visual Exercises for Technical Communicators. Co-Authored with Cheryl E. Ball. CD-ROM. New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2005.
ix: Visual Exercises. Co-Authored with Cheryl E. Ball. CD-ROM. New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2004.
Nancy Bell
- "Impolite Responses to Failed Humor" presented in Vancouver at the conference of the Canadian Association for Applied Linguistics. Also profiled in the Vancouver Sun newspaper.
- “Learning About and Through Humor in the L2 Classroom.” Language Teaching Research (forthcoming). “Impolite Responses to Failed Humor” in Humor in Interaction, ed. Delia Chiaro and Neal Norrick, (forthcoming).
- “That Wasn’t a Laugh:Responses to Failed Humor.” American Association for Applied Linguistics, March 2008.
- “Learning to play, playing to learn: FL learners as multicompetent language users.” with A. Pomerantz. Applied Linguistics 28.4: 556-578.
- “Safe territory? Bilingual women’s humorous narratives.” Research on Language and Social Interaction, 402.3: 199-225.
- “Microteaching: What is it that’s going on here?” Linguistics and Education, 18(1): 24-40.
- “Humor comprehension: Lessons learned from cross-cultural interaction.” Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 20(4): 367-387.
- “How native and non-native English speakers adapt to humor in intercultural interaction.” Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 20(1): 27-48.
- Serves as poetry editor for A River & Sound Review
- “After the War” nominated by poet/editor Marvin Bell for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. The poem appeared in Vol. 1 of the Lost Horse Press.
- Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy. New Press, 2007.
Kim Burwick
- Awarded a 2009 writing residency at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington
Todd Butler
- Buchanan Scholar for Assistant Professor, 2008-2010.
- Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. Ashgate, 2008.
- Review, “Recent Studies in Law and Literature.” Early Modern Literary Studies.
- “Bedeviling Spectacle: Law, Literature, and Early Modern Witchcraft.” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (forthcoming).
- “Swearing Justice in The Witch of Edmonton.” Studies in English Literature (forthcoming).
- Participated in an advanced faculty seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library's Center for British Political Thought. The seminar brought together 12 faculty members to discuss new ways of shaping the study of the English Restoration (1660-1714).
Bill Condon
- Invited speaker at the University of Michigan, where he took part in a day-long celebration of the English Composition Board/Sweetland Writing Center. His topic was "What have we learned?"
- Spencer Foundation planning grant to study the long-term effects of faculty development.
- “Think Globally, Act Locally: Exploring Our Enlightened Self-Interest in the National Conversation on Assessment” and “Critical Thinking in the Classroom: Identifying, Articulating, Assigning, and Assessing What We Value.” University of Minnesota. Campus-wide lecture and workshop.
Donna Campbell
- "Where Are My Children?': Pregnancy and Abortion in Edith Wharton's Summer and the Progressive Era Social Problem Film." Paper given at the April 8-10, 2008, Pacific Northwest American Studies Association conference in Walla Walla.
- “At Fault: Kate Chopin's Other Novel.” Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin, ed. Janet Beer. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Buchanan Distinguished Professorship for Associate Professor, 2007-2010.
- English Graduate Organization Award for Best Graduate Seminar, Spring 2007.
- “The Secret Life of Edith Wharton.” Young Indy Documentaries. Jak Films, Inc. Prod. Betsy Bayha. Lucasfilm, 2007.
- “A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick's Out of Bohemia.” Legacy (forthcoming in 2008).
- “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s.” American Literary Scholarship 2006, ed. David Nordloh. Duke U P, 2008.
- “Literary Darwinism and the Rise of Naturalism.” The Cambridge History of American Literature. Ed. Leonard Cassuto and Clare Eby. Invited Submission. (forthcoming).
- “Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism.” Blackwell Companion to the American Novel, ed. John Matthews. Invited submission. (forthcoming).
- "Walden in the Suburbs: Thoreau, Rock Hudson, and Natural Style in Douglas Sirk's All that Heaven Allows." Forthcoming in Film Fashion, ed. Anthony Hughes.
- “‘Written with a hard and ruthless purpose’: Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction.” Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 177. ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2007.
- “Fiction: 1900-1930.” American Literary Scholarship 2005, ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Duke U P, 2007. 289-322.
- “More than a Family Resemblance? Agnes Crane's ‘A Victorious Defeat’ and Stephen Crane's The Third Violet.” Stephen Crane Studies 16.1 (Spring 2007): 14-23.
- Chaired a roundtable on women naturalists and spoke on the “What is Naturalism?” panel at the American Literature Association Symposium on Naturalism, Oct. 2007.
- “Lillie Chace Wyman: An Early Naturalist?” American Literature Association Symposium on Naturalism, Oct. 2007.
- Disturbance-Loving Species won the Maria Thomas Fiction Award, given by the National Peace Corps Association, 2008.
- Disturbance Loving Species. Mariner Books, 2007.
- “In Large and Sunlit Lands.” High Country News (Oct. 29).
- “The Border: In Africa, lines are often blurry.” Best American Travel Writing, Houghton Mifflin, 2008. The essay first appeared on TheSmartSet.com, Drexel University's new online literary journal of culture, ideas, reportage, and journeys.
- “The J in Literary Journalism: Research and Reporting Skills in the Context of Creative Writing Programs.” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in New York.
- Featured speaker at the African Studies Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. Feb. 2008. His presentation, “Romancing the Archivist: A Cautionary Dispatch from West Africa,” is part of a program called, “Field Notes in African Research.”
- Writing/Here: a reading by local authors at Cafe Silos in Moscow, Idaho The event, partly sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council, emphasized the stories and landscapes of the American West. April 18, 2008.
- Delivered a lecture on “All's Well That Ends Well” to a west-side community group before the Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of the play.
- Has supplied *The Literary Encyclopedia* with the entry to Chaucer's General Prologue.
- "Othello -- Around the Play in Eighty Lines, Part II." Verité: Journal of the Proceedings of the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference 2 (2007).
"More Recent Publications in Oxfordian Studies." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 61.1 (Spring 2007).
- Was mentioned in *Time Magazine* online last fall as one of the first 300 signers of the now-celebrity-heavy "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt."
- "Edward de Vere's Antony and Cleopatra." Verité: Journal of the Proceedings of the Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference 1 (2006).
- "De Vere's Lucrece and Romano's Sala di Troia." The Oxfordian 9 (2006).
- "Recent Publications in Oxfordian Studies." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 60.2 (Fall 2006).
- Elected to the Faculty Senate and will represent all Non-tenure Track Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts, International Programs and General Education.
- “The Ending of Othello.” Shakespeare Authorship Studies conference. Portland, OR.
- “Shake-speare's The Winter's Tale as Tudor Family Allegory.” The Rocky Mountain MLA conference, Calgary.
- Delahoyde also served as a resume and cover letter consultant.
- Braved a visit to Lincoln Middle School in Pullman as an invited speaker on Shakespeare.