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Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy will be published later this year by University of Delaware Press.
Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Director of Women's Studies, University of Puget Sound, Dr. Birnbaum has been named as a Hewlett Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Her most recent book is Race, Labour and Desire in American Literature, 1860s-1930s (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
A Road of Her Own: Women’s Journeys in the West, (ISBN 1-55591-307-5) an anthology edited by Blessing of road stories by contemporary women, was published in October by Fulcrum Publishing, where she serves as Editor-in-Chief. She is the widow of Professor Richard Blessing, for whom the department’s Blessing Scholarship is named.
Participated in “Integrating Curricular Strategies for an Engaged Citizenry: Learning Communities, Service-Learning, Diversity Programs, and Assessment,” a session at the 2003 Learning to Change conference of the American Association for Higher Education.
Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver, Evenson's Understanding Robert Coover was published in February by the University of South Carolina Press. A novella, Dark Property: An Affliction, was published in November.
Will be leaving his position as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia in June to a Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing at the University of New Brunswick. His “Editing Drama” is included in Electronic Textual Editing, forthcoming from MLA.
Vancouver campus co-director of the Center for Social and Environmental Justice at WSU, Helleger organized the Forum on Civil Liberties and Social Justice Movements After 9/11 in Portland, Oregon, last summer.
Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction : Living in Paradox was published by University of Tennessee Press in 2002.
The current U.S. Ambassador to Thailand receives a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Arts and Sciences on May 8th. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1965, Ambassador Johnson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, teaching English in Lamphun Province. Johnson has been a strong advocate for closer ties between students and academics in the United States and their colleagues abroad, with an expressed interest in furthering international service learning opportunities for UW students. In addition to Thai, he speaks Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Polish, and some Lithuanian.
Grove Press will publish Matt’s first novel, Well, this Summer. Rights have also been sold for the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Spain. Parts of the novel have previously been published in Playboy, Ploughshares, and Puerto del Sol. Matt began writing Well as a UW student in 1998. He was a winner of the department’s Mary Rouvelas Prize in his senior year.
The Early Art of Norfolk : A Subject List of Extant and Lost Art Including Items Relevant to Early was published in 2002 by Medieval Institute Publications/Western Michigan Univ.
A poet and essayist, Rekdal received a 2003 Literature Fellowship from the NEA. Her most recent book, Six Girls Without Pants: Poems, was published in November by Eastern Washington University Press. Currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming, Ms. Rekdal was our 1991 Arthur Oberg Award winner.
“The Man Who Mistook His Hat for His Date” was included in The Moment of Truth: Women’s Funniest Romantic Catastrophes, an anthology published by Seal Press, 2002. Elizabeth was a recipient of the department's Blessing Scholarship.
Our 1989 Oberg Award winner and l999 Milliman Scholar has won the James Hearst Poetry Award. Sponsored by the North American Review, and judged by poet Li-Young, the competition drew over 4,000 entries.
Will be reading at Elliot Bay Books on April 10th from her first novel, City of Ghosts, recently published by W.W. Norton.
A Southern Horror: Race, Sex, and the 1898 Wilmington
Massacre has been published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. He is currently
working on The Cultures of U.S. White Supremacy, a study in the cultural
history of extreme
racism in
the United States.
