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:
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
Ning Yu
Ning Yu’s book on a critical genre which criticizes poems in the form of poetry was published 09/2020 by Beijing Normal University Press. It is a critical evaluation of a modern poet’s poems written to criticizes 25 poets in Chinese literary history, somewhat like a combination of Alexader Pope’s “Essay On Criticism” and Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the English Poets.” It is a commissioned book. The title, roughly translated, is Interpretation and Remembrance: An Analysis of Professor Chigong’s 25 Critical Poems