Student Awards and Accomplishments
Graduate Student Accomplishments
Lisa Anderson presented a paper titled "Crime and Punishment: Transgression and Vengeance in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books" as part of the Children’s Literature: “Childhood” Tales panel at the November 6-7 PAMLA Conference in San Francisco.
Ben Bunting attended THATCamp Pacific Northwest on October 17. He also presented a paper titled "The 21st-Century Urban Stroller: Urban Exploration as a New Spatial Practice" as part of the Solitude and the Modern Metropolis panel at the November 6-7 PAMLA Conference in San Francisco.
Pamela Chisum attended THATCamp Pacific Northwest on October 17. Her panel “Cyborgs in Our Midst: (Re)defining Space/Place/Identity in Ethereal Worlds,” has been accepted for the CCCC 2010 and will be chaired by Dr. Cynthia Selfe. Her paper is titled “Identity Crisis: Social Proprioception and the Constant (Re)creation of Identities in the Twitterverse.”
Jessica Edwards attended THATCamp Pacific Northwest on October 17.
Donna Evans presented “From Railway to Information Superhighway in Harney County, Oregon” at the John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, themed “Frontier Technology/Techno-Frontiers: The Role of Technology in the American West,” held October 29-31 at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. Her article titled "Remembering Places: Student Reliance on Place in Timed Essays" appeared in Assessing Writing: An International Journal, volume 14:3. She will present “When Timber Subsidies End: Pursuing Rural Sustainability through Adaptive Discourses” at CCCC 2010, March 17-20, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Tim Hetland presented "Screams, Senses and the Universal Studios Monster Films" at the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in February 2010.
Julie Meloni's essay, "Local Color Writing Worth More than a 'Summary Statement': The Women Authors of the Early Overland Monthly," has been accepted for publication in American Literary Realism. She attended THATCamp Pacific Northwest on October 17. She presented "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, and Web n.0 Participation Models in the Classroom" as part of the Teaching with the Internet and Technology panel at the November 6-7 PAMLA Conference in San Francisco.
Jerry Petersen’s article, “'This Test Makes No Freaking Sense': Criticism, Confusion, and Frustration in Timed Writing," appeared in Assessing Writing: An International Journal, volume 14:3. He will present at CCCC 2010 on a panel titled “Rhetoric and Political Economy: Demystifying Ideological/Material Relations.”
Chris Ritter attended THATCamp Pacific Northwest on October 17.
Stephanie Schatz presented her paper, "'Miniature Insanity': Lewis Carroll's Alice, Fractured Consciousness, and the Psychopathology of Victorian Child Madness," last summer at the Literature and Pathology Conference at the University of California, Davis Medical Center. She will present "Rhetorical Sovereignty and Epistemic Authority in Composition Classrooms: The Greenbaum Incident Revisited" at CCCC 2010.
Mike Sutcliffe will present at CCCC 2010 in Kentucky on a panel titled “Remixing Rhetoric: Graffiti Literacies and Pedagogies,” which looks at graffiti as a “remixing” rhetorical practice – an outlaw(ed) literacy that both threatens and mirrors composition theory and pedagogy.
