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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

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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

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Greg Youmans

In summer 2019, Greg Youmans served as the film consultant for the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibition “Queer California: Untold Stories.” The exhibition, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, was on view from April 13 to August 11. Youmans also gave a talk at the museum about the film selections in June. In his teaching, he developed a new course topic for ENG 464, Advanced Topics in Film Studies: “Queer Experimental.” The course surveys the history of avant-garde film and media production by queer and trans artists, and in its first iteration, taught in Spring 2020 during the pandemic, it featured online class visits from a number of contemporary filmmakers.

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Jane Wong

In the spring of 2019, Jane Wong was honored by receiving the Womxn of Color Empowerment Award at WWU. Her first solo art exhibition, “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly,” ran from June-September 2019 at the Frye Art Museum, and was featured on Hyperallergic. Also during the summer, she was an artist-in-residence via the Jentel Foundation, SAFTA, and Sarabande Books. Recent poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, Apogee, The Common, Shenandoah, POETRY, Orion, The Yale Review, and others. Her second book, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James is forthcoming next year. And she’s busy working on a third book of poems and a collection of essays. This past fall, she was thrilled to have a poem alongside a former WWU student of hers, Tessie Monique (Class of 2018), in The Lantern Review.

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Brenda Miller

Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola revised their highly popular textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining and Publishing Creative Nonfiction for a 3rd edition, published by McGraw-Hill in August 2019. In the past year, Brenda’s essays and poems appeared in such venues as Fusion, Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, and The Writer’s Chronicle. Her book of collaborative essays, written with MA Alum Julie Marie Wade, called Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for an Essay Collection, chosen by Hanif Abdurraqib, in 2019, and it will be published by Cleveland State University Press in 2021. She also has forthcoming a collection of her “writing on writing,” called A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form, with University of Michigan Press in 2021. Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com

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Kathryn Trueblood

Kathryn Trueblood’s newest novel, Take Daily As Needed, presents the challenges of parenting while ill with the desperado humor the subject deserves; it was published by the University of New Mexico Press in September 2019. Trueblood offered workshops in therapeutic writing at “The Examined Life” Conference at the University of Iowa, the Hugo House in Seattle, and the Lighthouse Writers Conference in Denver. Her essay, “Writing from a Pile of Shoes: Chronic Illness, Kids, and Creation,” was published by Literary Mama in November 2019, and “Honey, Don’t Break Yourself” is forthcoming in Minerva Rising #18. You can find her interviews at Invisible Not Broken Podcast, Montana Public Radio, and Writing It Real.

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Katherine Anderson

Katherine Anderson has given invited lectures at the National Museum of Language and the University of Washington, as well as conference papers for Victorians Institute and the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. She is completing her first monograph, Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain, which is now under contract with The Ohio State University Press. In her teaching, she developed three new courses, creating two different versions of “Victorian Sexualities” for ENG 320: The Long Nineteenth Century and ENG 560: Studies in British Literature, respectively, and “The Rise of the Monster” for ENG 215: British Literature.