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Support the English department online: http://www.wwu.edu/giv 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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Support the English department online: http://www.wwu.edu/giv

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

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