Recent Articles, Films, and Podcasts

🍀 LATEST POSTS:

🍀New blog post by author Mariah Talmadge on our own Ella Higginson! Check it out below!

https://medium.com/@mariahsky28/the-revival-of-ella-higginson-e71664

🍀Check out Dr. Laffrado’s latest essay on Ella Higginson’s work! “Ella Higginson, Pacific Northwest Indigeneity, and National Identity” in American Literary Realism, vol. 56, no. 3, Spring 2024, pp. 196-211. <https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/alr/article-abstract/56/3/196/387198/Ella-Higginson-Pacific-Northwest-Indigeneity-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext>

Talking To Crows: Using Film To Find The Universal Truths In Personal Stories

🍀 The badass feminist film company Talking to Crows chats about their projects including their feature film Just Like the Men, based on Ella Higginson’s lost feminist screenplay! Read the interview and then watched the movie on Amazon Prime!

🍀“The Pacific Northwest’s First (and Forgotten) National Literary Star–Ella Rhoads Higginson” by Dr. Laura Laffrado. Check it out on (and subscribe to) the fantastic website Writing the Northwest: Literary, historical, and contemporary writings about the Pacific Northwest. writingthenorthwest.com

“The Accidental Book Collector: My Collection of Books by Ella Higginson” by Dr. Laura Laffrado. Check it out at the wonderful site of the Book Club of Washington and consider joining Washington State’s coolest book club! http://Bookclubofwashington.org

🍀 COVER STORY about Dr. Laffrado’s work on Ella Higginson in the Seattle Sunday Times Magazine:

https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/a-western-washington-university-professor-works-to-recover-the-legacy-of-ella-rhoads-higginson/

🍀 FEATURE FILM: Just Like the Men, 2020. Based on Ella Higginson’s never before produced screenplay of the same name, Just Like The Men, produced and directed by feminist film company Talking to Crows, is a comic and dramatic filmic account of Higginson’s experiences as campaign manager for Frances Axtell, who successfully ran for the Washington State Legislature right after some women were finally granted the right to vote in Washington State.

🍀 NOW STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME! 🍀

WATCH THE FILM TRAILER FOR JUST LIKE THE MEN HERE:

https://vimeo.com/383120951?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=39612584

WATCH: On November 2, 2018 a reception was held in honor of the unveiling of the bronze bust of Ella Higginson in Wilson Library at Western Washington University. Film crew Talking to Crows was present to record the event.

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LISTEN: C19 Podcast Featuring Dr. Laura Laffrado–Inventing Pacific Northwest Literature: Ella Rhoads Higginson https://soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s01e07-inventing-pacific-northwest-literature-ella-rhoads-higginson?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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RECENT ARTICLES ABOUT ELLA HIGGINSON BY DR. LAURA LAFFRADO:

🍀“Ella Higginson, Pacific Northwest Indigeneity, and National Identity,” American Literary Realism, vol. 56, no. 3, Spring 2024, pp. 196-211.<https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/alr/article-abstract/56/3/196/387198/Ella-Higginson-Pacific-Northwest-Indigeneity-and?redirectedFrom

🍀 “Ella Rhoads Higginson.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson R. Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford UP, 2021. www.oxfordbibliographies.com

🍀 “‘It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others Have Faded into the Mists’: The Pacific Northwest Gothic of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s ‘In the Bitter Root Mountains,’” in American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic, eds. Rita Bode and Monika Elbert. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 323-338.

🍀 “Placing the Pacific Northwest on the Literary Map: Teaching Ella Rhoads Higginson’s Mariella, Of Out-West,” in Teaching Western American Literature, eds. Brady Harrison and Randi Tanglen, U Nebraska P, 2020, pp. 203-224.

🍀 “The Value of Digitized Newspaper Collections in Researching Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Women’s Writing: Two Newly Recovered Poems by Ella Rhoads Higginson,” Readex Report, March 2019.

https://www.readex.com/readex-report/issues/volume-14-issue-1/value-digitized-newspaper-collections-researching-neglected

🍀 “The New West” Seattle Times (24 February 2019). https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/laments-over-unbridled-growth-in-our-beloved-northwest-are-nothing-new/

🍀 “Ella Rhoads Higginson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Pacific Northwest Women’s Literary Regionalism,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 31 2 2014, pp. 281-88.

🍀 “The Pacific Northwest (Re)Writes New England: Civic Myth and Women’s Literary Regionalism in Ella Higginson’s Revision of The Scarlet Letter.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 40 1, 2014, pp. 18-40.

ARTICLES BY DR. LAFFRADO’S STUDENTS:

🍀 Aaron Schultz, “The Hens are Clucking: ‘The Arnspiker Chickens’ and the Preservation of Reputation in a Pacific Northwest Town,” Occam’s Razor, vol. 14, 2024, pp. 70-79.

🍀 Marielle Stockton, ““To Lie There Forever, on the Silver Crest of the World”: The Memorial Poetry of Ella Higginson,” Whatcom County Historical Society Journal, 2019, pp. 46-60.

🍀 Elijah Morgan, “Protestant Ecofeminism in the Poetry of Ella Higginson,” Occam’s Razor, vol. 7, 2017. pp.1-10.