Professor Allison Giffen continues to develop and co-edit a digital humanities project with her collaborator, Dr. Lucia Hodgson, Critical Childhood Studies: A Long 19C Digital Humanities Project. https://ccsproject.org/. In addition, she and Associate Professor Andrew Lucchesi continue to collaborate on the initiative to develop the Institute for Critical Disability Studies here at WWU.
Jane Wong
A new poem by Professor Jane Wong “This is What Survival Looks Like” appeared in The Yale Review: https://yalereview.yale.edu/what-survival-looks
Jane’s second book of poems, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, is out this October, 2021 from Alice James. Here is a link to the Publishers Weekly review:
Her poem “I Put On a Fur Coat” was chosen and read by musician Audrey Nuna for The New York Times:
In 2022, Jane and Diana Khoi Nguyen will collaborate on a poetry installation at Harvard University, as the recipients of the 2021-2022 Woodberry Poetry Room Fellowship:
Dakota Porter (2018)
Dakota Porter was recently accepted into the Masters in Teaching program at Seattle Pacific University.
(BA, 2020): Dana Anderson
Dana Anderson (BA, 2020) just completed her first year of law school at Lewis and Clark.
Sophie Hall (BA 2021)
Sophie Hall’s lyric essay, “Notes on Preservation,” was recently published in Mawth Magazine and can be found here: https://www.mawthmagazine.com/notes-on-preservation
(BA, 2019): Chloe Jackson
Chloe Jackson’s (BA ’19, CW major) poem “An Arsenal of Affirmations” was published in the journal Hash.
(BA, 2019): Rosalie Lander
Rosalie Lander’s (BA ’19, CW major) poem “Santa Rosalia” was published in the anthology Take a Stand: Art Against Hate.
(MFA ,2020): Jai Dulani
Jai Dulani’s (MFA ,’20) poem “My Name” was selected for Best New Poets 2020. His essay “HIST 525: The Sine Curve Gets Really Low” recently appeared in The Offing.
Justin Lewis
Justin Lewis’ co-edited volume, Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation was recently published as part of the Working and Writing for Change series at Parlor. The volume is open-access and may be found at https://parlorpress.com/collections/working-and-writing-for-change/products/literacy-and-pedagogy-in-an-age-of-misinformation-and-disinformation
Justin is currently an Editorial Fellow for the CCCC Series in Writing and Rhetoric of NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/swr). He is also working to build a partnership between SWR and other academic presses to create an open-access option for publishing monographs in Writing/Rhetoric. He notes that his background as a co-editor for an open-access journal (http://licsjournal.org) and his own research and scholarship in digital intellectual property have prepared him for this role. Justin can be reached at lewisj42@wwu.edu
(BA, 2018): Jake Dardzinski
(BA, 2018) Jake Dardzinski is a junior writer for Pixelberry Studios, creator of story driven games, including Surviving High School and Cause of Death. Previously, he worked for Luminary Games as a Narrative Designer.