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HERE COMES EVERYONE:
LATEST NEWS FROM THE LIVES OF ALUMNI
Kathryn Aalto (MA 1998) wrote the New York Times Bestseller, The Natural World of
Winnie-the-Pooh, published by Timber Press in 2015. She currently teaches English at
Exeter College in the United Kingdom. http://www.kathrynaalto.com/
Kaitlyn Abrams (BA 2013) wrote the article, “Periodical Pedagogy in the
Undergraduate Classroom,” which appeared in Volume 48, Issue 2 of Victorian
Periodicals Review. The article was co-written with Kristin Mahoney.
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_periodicals_review/
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Amanda Aldous (BA 2011) works as a proofreader for Cacao Europa. She is also
Consultant Assistant at College Planning Solutions, Inc.
Rebekah Anderson (BA 1997) is currently Managing Director at Lit Crawl Seattle and
Director of Marketing at Sasquatch Books. http://litcrawl.org/seattle/2015-bios
Colleen Louise Barry (BA 2012) is Studio Manager at World Famous, a collective of
creative filmmakers, and teaches youth workshops at Hugo House. Her comics, writing,
and poetry appear in Coconut, The Pinch, Interrupture, and Tenderloin, among others.
http://www.worldfamousinc.com/about/
Zach Beare (BA 2008 & MA 2010) wrote the essay, “The Most Important Project of
Our Time! Hyperbole as a Discourse Feature of Student Writing,” co-authored with
Marcus Meade. The essay was published in Volume 67, Issue 1 of College Composition
and Communication. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/ccc
Crys M. Bronte (MA 2010) is currently pursuing a PhD in Education with a designated
emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition studies at the University of California,
Davis.
Logan Brouelette (BA 2014) delivered the TEDxTalk, “Transgender Inclusion in NCAA
Athletics” at TEDxWWU in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdnU-3NCVHg
Danielle Campoamor (BA 2009) wrote the article, “How Planned Parenthood Made Me
a Better Parent,” which was published in The Seattle Times on August 21, 2015. She is a
freelance writer and blogger at “twenty something nothing”.
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/how-planned-parenthood-made-me-a-better-parent/
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Anders Carlson-Wee (BA 2000) was a 2015 NEA Fellow, 2015 Bread Loaf Bakeless
Camargo Fellow, and the author of Dynamite, winner of the 2015 Frost Place Chapbook
Competition, published by Bull City Press in 2015. https://www.arts.gov/writers-
corner/bio/anders-carlson-wee
Ian Chant (BA 2007) is currently Editorial Manager at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City.
Julie Collins (BA 1997) is currently Senior Technical Writer at WatchGuard
Technologies, Inc. https://www.watchguard.com/
Megan Cook (BA 2014) is now Associate Editor for The Zharmae Publishing Press in
California. She is also a photographer for SharpShooter Imaging. http://tzppbooks.com/
Ian Denning (BA 2007 & MA 2009) is currently a copyeditor at PitchBook Data, Inc.
His most recent fiction appeared in Pinball, CHEAP POP, Tin House Open Bar, and
Pithead Chapel. https://pitchbook.com/
Alissa DeLaFuente (MFA 2016) wrote the flash piece, “The Goal Would Be That She
Drops,” which was recently published in Red Savina Review. She secured a position at
Whatcom Community College as a Student Completion Specialist in Entry & Advising.
http://www.redsavinareview.org/?s=Alissa+delafuente
Ken Efta (MA 1995) started The Efta Fund for English Teaching Assistantships in 2015,
which gave graduate students in WWU’s Department of English the opportunity to teach
more advanced courses.
Wendy J. Fox (BA 1999) won the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction in 2014. Her debut
novel, The Pull of It, is forthcoming from Underground Voices in September 2016. Her
recent stories appeared in Rougarou, Four Way Review, and Hawaii Pacific Review.
www.wendyjfox.com.
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Gabriel Galanda (BA 1997) launched the American Indian-owned law firm, Galanda
Broadman, PLLC, with Anthony Broadman in 2010. In 2011, Puget Sound Business
Journal named him as one of the Best Lawyers in Washington State. Most recently,
The Seattle Times featured Gabe in a front-page story, “Native Lawyer Takes On Tribes
That Kick Out Members,” December 20, 2015. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-
news/northwest/native-lawyer-takes-on-tribes
Elizabeth Gleesing (MA 2013) was accepted with full funding to Syracuse University’s
PhD Program in English.
Anne Greenfield (MA 2005) conducted the interview, “Grasping the Natural: A
Conversation with Gary Snyder,” which was first published in the Bellingham Review in
2005. The interview will be reprinted in Dr. David Colonne’s book, Conversations with
Gary Snyder, forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi.
Lauren Hatch (MA 2014) currently teaches English at Bellingham Technical College.
Cindy Hollenbeck (MA 2002) is Senior Writer/Editor at the Washington State
University Foundation. https://foundation.wsu.edu/about/
Emily Jackson (BA 2004) wrote the memoir, While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a
Time of Climate Change, which was published by Green Writers Press in 2015. Jackson
is currently leading expeditions for the National Geographic Society and is pursuing a
PhD in Geography and Earth Science at the University of Oregon.
http://mjacksonauthor.squarespace.com/about-momentum/
Kendall Jones (BA 1988) was one of 51 people chosen for Seattle Magazine’s “Seattle’s
Most Influential People of 2014.” He is the primary author of the Washington Beer Blog
and he recently launched GoFindBeer.com, a website dedicated to beer travel. He also
writes for Seattle Magazine and Sip Northwest Magazine.
http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/
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Dave Kellogg (BA 1988) co-founded the company In Deep Films with collaborator
Brendan Madden. Kellogg and Madden filmed several travel documentaries in China,
Macau, Tibet, Nepal, Thailand, Mongolia, Turkey, India, Iran, and Iraq for companies
such as Trip Films and Lonely Planet. http://www.indeepfilms.com
Laura McCracken (Purkey) (BA 1995) graduated with a Master’s in Rhetoric from
New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She has taught composition, developmental
English, and advanced grammar at North Seattle College since 1998.
Jory Mickelson (BA 2009) serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor of 5x5.
https://5x5litmag.wordpress.com/
Peter Wayne Moe (BA 2005) completed his PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the
University of Pittsburgh. He is now Assistant Professor of English and Director of
Campus Writing at Seattle Pacific University. His essay, “Of Tombs and Wombs, or The
Whale, Part III” was published in Volume 17, Issue 1 of Leviathan.
http://melvillesociety.org/publications/leviathan-a-journal-of-melville-studies
Keith Moul (MA 1971) wrote the poetry collection, The Future as a Picnic Lunch,
published by Finishing Line Press in 2015. His book, Naked Among Possibilities, is
forthcoming from Kelsay Books in 2016. His newest collection of poetry, Investment in
Idolatry, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2018. http://kelsaybooks.com/
Kevin Nah (BA 1998) graduated from New York University School of Law in 2002. He
is currently Division Counsel at Corning Incorporated.
Alex Ollivant (BA 2015) was accepted to WWU’s Communication Sciences and
Disorders Post-Baccalaureate Program in Speech Pathology.
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Robin Parks (MA 2001) is Fiction Editor of Referential Magazine. Her book, Egg
Heaven, was published by Shade Mountain Press in 2014. Her work also appeared in the
Bellingham Review, The MacGuffin, Hippocampus, Perigree, and Prism International.
http://referentialmagazine.org
Alexa Peters (BA 2014) is currently a columnist for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and a
freelance writer for SELF Magazine. http://amysmartgirls.com/?s=Alexa+Peters
Kori Rosset (BA 2016) wrote the piece, “The Tube Time Slumber Party,” which was
published in Volume 5 of Gold Man Review. The editors of Gold Man Review nominated
the piece for the Pushcart Prize. http://www.goldmanreview.org/
Samara Hayley Steele (BA 2007) volunteered with Oakland Spring Rising and Land
Action in 2015 to support new and existing urban farms in Oakland, California. She is
currently an advanced research affiliate at the Humanities & Critical Code Studies Lab at
the University of Southern California. http://haccslab.com/
Kaitlyn Teer (MFA 2015) won Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Essay Prize of 2015 for her
essay, “Ossification,” which was judged in honor of Judith Kitchen. Her essay, “A
Pattern,” co-written with Megan Spiegel, appeared in Volume 8, Issue 2 of Sweet.
http://msupress.org/journals/fg/steinberg/
Julie Marie Wade (MA 2003) wrote the piece, “The Epistolary Enterprise: Fusing
Artifact and Art,” which was published in Family Resemblance: An Anthology and
Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres.
http://www.rosemetalpress.com/Catalog/familyresemblance.html
Leif Whittaker (BA 2007) wrote the memoir, My Old Man and the Mountain,
forthcoming from Mountaineers Books in October 2016. His articles and stories have
also appeared in Powder, The Ski Journal, The Mountaineer, and Window.
http://www.leifwhittaker.com/
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Ari Yarwood (BA 2012) was promoted to Managing Editor at Oni Press in Portland,
Oregon. She edits comic book series such as Rick and Morty and Another Castle.
http://onipress.tumblr.com/
Maya Jewell Zeller (BA 2002) read at Village Books with WWU-alumnus Jeremy Voigt
on October 24, 2015. She read from her new chapbook, Yesterday, the Bees, published by
Floating Bridge Press. She is also the fiction editor of Crab Creek Review.
http://www.floatingbridgepress.org/shop/yesterday-the-bees/
IN MEMORIUM
Former Western Washington University Creative Writing Major, Hali Cassels
(Laudermilk), passed away on July 8, 2015. Her obituary, written by her husband Robb,
was posted to The Co-op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial:
http://funerals.coop/obituaries/2015-obituaries/july-2015/hali-cassels.html.
THE LATEST FROM YOUR FACULTY
Kaveh Askari
Kaveh Askari is currently Associate Professor in Residence of the
Communication Program at Northwestern University in Qatar. His article, “An
Afterlife for Junk Prints: Serials and Other ‘Classics’ in 1920s Tehran” appeared
in the 2014 anthology, Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space. The book won the
Best Edited Collection of 2015 Award by the Society for Cinema and Media
Studies. He was also awarded a research fellowship by the Harry Ransom Center
at the University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807150
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Bruce Beasley
Bruce Beasley’s poetry was recently published in the Kenyon Review, Field, and
Poetry Northwest. His article, “Who Can a Monster Blame for Being Red? Three
Fragments on the Academic and the “Other” in Autobiography of Red” also
appeared in the collection, Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, published by University
of Michigan Press in 2015.
https://brucebeasley.net/
Elizabeth Colen
Elizabeth Colen’s latest short story collection, Your Sick, co-written with Kelly
Magee and Carol Guess, was published by Jellyfish Highway Press in February
2016. Her novel of prose poetry, titled What Weaponry, is forthcoming from
Black Lawrence Press later this year. http://www.blacklawrence.com/welcome-
elizabeth-colen/
Jeremy Cushman
Jeremy Cushman’s article, “Write Me a Better Story: Writing Stories as a
Diagnostic and Repair Practice for Automotive Technicians” was published in
Volume 45, Issue 2 of the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. He
also wrote the chapter, “Distributed Labor, Writing, and an Automotive Repair
Shop” for the 2016 anthology, Literacy in Practice. Cushman also received a
Collaborative Research Fellowship from the Teaching and Learning Academy. He
serves as Director of Composition at Western Washington University (WWU).
http://jtw.sagepub.com/content/45/2/189.abstract
Oliver de la Paz
Oliver de la Paz’s essay, “Apologia for the Tumbleweed, Or Where My Mind
Goes When Someone Asks About Metaphor” was published in the collection,
Because You Asked: a Book of Answers on the Art and Craft of the Writing Life
by Lost Horse Press in 2015. His latest poems also appeared in The Laurel Review
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and Split This Rock. He continues to serve as Vice President of the Association of
Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ROBBEC.html
Kristin Denham
Kristin Denham’s article, “Examining Linguistics in the Language Strand of the
Common Core State Standards” was published in Language and Linguistics
Compass in 2015. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1749-
818X/issues?year=2015
Dawn Dietrich
Dawn Dietrich continues to direct Western Reads and serves on the First Year
Experience Committee at WWU. She is also a board member of the Pickford Film
Center. https://wp.wwu.edu/westernreads/
Geraldine Forsberg
Geraldine Forsberg wrote a chapter for the book, Confronting Technopoly with
Education, which is expected to come out this fall. Her article, “Jacques Ellul’s
Contributions to Media Literacy” will also be published in a special edition of
Explorations in Media Ecology. She recently presented papers at the National
Communication Association Conference in Las Vegas and at St. Paul’s College at
the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo25033323.html
Margaret Fox
Margaret Fox delivered the TEDxTalk, “The Afterlife of Wills: Why Legacy
Matters” at TEDxWWU in 2015. She regularly contributes articles to The
Bellingham Herald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FKt8wsAxak
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Allison Giffen
Allison Giffen’s article, “Suffering Girls: The Work of Anti-Catholicism in
Martha Finley’s Novels” is the lead article in Volume 41, Issue 1 of Children’s
Literature Association Quarterly. She was also accepted to participate in “History
of the Book in American Culture,” a competitive summer seminar established by
the American Antiquarian Society. She serves as Director of Graduate Studies at
WWU.
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/301
David Gray
David Gray’s essay, “‘What to do Starting from This Place’: Documentary Film
and Official Memorialization in Argentina and Chile” was recently published in
Volume 9, Issue 3 of Studies in Documentary Film.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdf20/9/3
Carol Guess
Carol Guess’s latest short story collection, Your Sick, co-written with Kelly
Magee and Elizabeth Colen, was just published by Jellyfish Highway Press. Her
other collaborative short story collection, With Animal, co-written with Kelly
Magee, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2015. Her piece, “How I
Became a Detective: Prose Poetry and Post-Confessional Aesthetics” appeared in
the 2015 collection, Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8
Hybrid Literary Genres. http://www.carolguess.blogspot.com/
Lee Gulyas
Lee Gulyas’s nonfiction and poetry recently appeared in The Common, Prime
Number, Barn Owl Review, EVENT, The Malahat Review, Kahini Magazine,
Tinderbox, Literary Mama, Sweet, and Redivider. In 2015, she received the
Ronald Kleinknecht Excellence in Teaching Award. She also twice participated as
Faculty in WWU’s Service-Learning Study Abroad Program to Rwanda.
http://www.literarymama.com/poetry/archives/2015/09/sofia-in-the-garden.html
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Nancy Johnson
Nancy Johnson continues to serve as Director of the Children’s Literature
Conference at WWU. http://wwuclc.com/
Kristiana Kahakauwila
Kristiana Kahakauwila’s short story, “Hands” was published in the 2015
collection, Off the Path Volume II: An Anthology of 21st Century American Indian
and Indigenous Writers. She was awarded a one-month residency to the Djerassi
Resident Artists Program in April 2015. She was also selected as a 2015-2016
Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/fellowship-
program/fellows?year%5B0%5D=2015
Julie Kelleher (Dugger)
Julie Kelleher delivered the TEDxTalk, “What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About
Our New Internet Selves” at TEDxWWU in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VBs8Oqbw3k
Laura Laffrado
Laura Laffrado edited the collection, Selected Writings of Ella Higginson, which
was published in 2015 by the Whatcom County Historical Society. Her book,
Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S.
Women’s Writing, was recently reissued in paperback.
http://faculty.wwu.edu/laffrado/index.shtml
Kathleen Lundeen
Kathleen Lundeen continues to serve as Associate Chair of WWU’s English
Department.
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Kelly Magee
Kelly Magee’s collaborative short story collection, Your Sick, co-written with
Carol Guess and Elizabeth Colen, was just published by Jellyfish Highway Press.
Her book, With Animal, co-written with Carol Guess, was published by Black
Lawrence Press in 2015. Her poetry chapbook, History of My Locked Wrist, co-
written with Carol Guess and Kristina Marie Darling, was also published by
Dancing Girl Press in 2015. Her work recently appeared in Jeopardy Magazine,
Threadcount, Split Lip Zine, Gulf Stream Magazine, Quarter After Eight, and
Gone Lawn. http://kellyelizabethmagee.com/
Kristin Mahoney
Kristin Mahoney’s new book, Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian
Decadence, was published by Cambridge University Press in June 2015. Her
article, “Periodical Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Classroom,” co-written with
WWU-alumna Kaitlyn Abrams, also appeared in Volume 48, Issue 2 of Victorian
Periodicals Review. In 2015, she received the Radke Family Faculty Award for
Innovations in the Humanities.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-
1945/literature-and-politics-post-victorian-decadence?format=HB
Brenda Miller
Brenda Miller’s newest essay collection, An Earlier Life, was published by
Ovenbird Books in 2016. Her tribute essay, “Considering Judith Kitchen” recently
appeared in Fourth Genre. Her piece, “Cables, Chains, and Lariats: Form as
Process” was recently published in Family Resemblance: An Anthology and
Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres. Her craft essay, “The Shared Space
Between Reader and Writer: A Case Study” recently appeared in Brevity. Her
essay, “To Foster” appeared in Referential Magazine.
http://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/the-shared-space/
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Nancy Pagh
Nancy Pagh’s latest collection of poetry, Once Removed, was published by
MoonPath Press in February 2016. Her poems, “Trails” and “Fingertips,” recently
appeared in Pif Magazine. Her creative writing textbook on multigenre, Write
Moves: A Creative Writing Guide & Anthology is forthcoming from Broadview
Press in July 2016, and will include creative writing by former students of WWU.
https://broadviewpress.com/product/write-moves-a-creative-writing-guide-and-
anthology/#tab-description
Suzanne Paola
Suzanne Paola received an Image Journal Top Ten Books of the Year Award for
her 2014 memoir, Make Me a Mother. Her essays, “Blurring the Magisteria:
Science as Fact, Science as Metaphor” and “Riddling the Sphinx: An Introduction
to Hybridity” recently appeared in Family Resemblance: An Anthology and
Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, published by Rose Metal Press in 2015.
She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review, whose Spring 2016
volume features new writing from Hong Kong in the section, “Hong Kong After
Occupy.” http://www.rosemetalpress.com/Catalog/familyresemblance.html
Christopher Patton
Christopher Patton’s latest poems were published in Hunger Mountain, Epiphany,
The Maynard, and The New Post-Literate. His recent prose also appeared in
Contemporary Verse 2 and The Winnipeg Review. He will moderate the panel,
“Everywhere Is Aleatory, Or, What I Found is Rarely What I Said I Sought” at
the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs 2016 Conference in
Toronto. He recently completed a poetry manuscript titled, Dumuzi.
http://winnipegreview.com/2015/09/for-elise-a-conversation-by-three-poets-and-
friends-about-elise-partridge-and-her-work/
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Donna Qualley
Donna Qualley revised the chapter, “Mapping a Conceptual Topography of the
Transfer Terrain” for Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer,
now expected for publication in 2016. She also wrote, “With and Because of
Genevieve,” the afterword for The Rhetoric of Participation: Interrogating
Commonplaces In and Beyond the Classroom, forthcoming from Computers and
Composition Digital Press in 2016.
Lysa Rivera
Lysa Rivera’s essay, “Chicana/o Cyberpunk After el Movimiento” was recently
accepted for publication by UCLA’s Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies. Her
essay, “Mestizaje and Heterotopia in Ernest Hogan’s High Aztech,” appeared in
the collection, Black and Brown Planets: the Politics of Race in Science Fiction,
published by University Press of Mississippi in 2014. She was also elected to
serve on the Executive Committee of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language
Association (PAMLA).
http://melus.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/4/205.extract
Sara Stamey
Sara Stamey’s new novel, The Ariadne Connection, was published by Book View
Café in 2015. The book won a Cygnus Award for Speculative Fiction.
http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/
Kathryn Trueblood
Kathryn Trueblood received a 2016 RSP Grant from WWU to develop curriculum
for vets and actively deployed military. She served as the faculty advisor for
“Stories Deployed: the Veteran Chronicles,” a storytelling performance now in its
third year.
Kathryn Vulić
Kathryn Vulić co-edited the volume, Readers, Reading, and Reception in Middle
English Devotional Literature and Practice, forthcoming from Brepols Press in
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2016. Appearing in the collection is her article, “Speculum Vitae and ‘Lewed’
Reading.” Vulić’s essay, “The Vernon Paternoster Diagram, Medieval Graphic
Design, and the Parson’s Tale,” will be published in Chaucer: Visual Approaches,
forthcoming from Penn State Press in July 2016. She serves as Chair of WWU’s
English Department.
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-
9782503530291-1
Theresa Warburton
Theresa Warburton’s review of Chris Dixon’s book, Another Politics: Talking
Across Today’s Transformative Movements, appeared in Volume 54, Issue 2of the
American Studies Journal. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/588894
Kami Westhoff
Kami Westhoff was invited to be the Fiction Feature at The Pinch’s release party
in Memphis. In addition to The Pinch, her work appeared or is forthcoming in
Meridian, Sundog Lit, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Passages North, decomP,
Redivider, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, and West Branch, among others. Her
chapbook, Sleepwalker, won the Minerva Rising “Dare to Be” Contest and is
forthcoming in August 2016. She currently serves as Faculty Advisor for
Jeopardy Magazine.
http://www.pinchjournal.com/pinchissues-blogroll/2015/9/6/current-issue-352-
fall-2015
Christopher Wise
Christopher Wise wrote the chapter, “The Spirit of Zionism: Derrida, Ruah, and
the Purloined Birthright” for the collection, Deconstructing Zionism: a Critique of
Political Metaphysics, which was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/deconstructing-zionism-9781441105943/
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Greg Youmans
Greg Youmans’s essay, “Elsa Gidlow’s Garden: Plants, Archives, and Queer
History” appeared in the anthology, Out of the Closet, Into the Archives:
Researching Sexual Histories, published by SUNY Press in 2015. Youmans
currently serves as Advisor for the Film Studies Minor.
http://www.gregyoumans.com/
Ning Yu
Ning Yu’s book, Borrowed from the Great Lump of the Earth: an American
Ecocritic’s Translation of Tang Poems, was published by the Center for East
Asian Studies in 2014. http://www.wwu.edu/sustain/involved/news/research/
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