English Matters. College of Arts and Sciences, Washington State University.

Recent & Forthcoming Publications

Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots

Regents Professor Debbie “DJ” Lee‘s memoir Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots was released by Oregon State University Press in March 2020, won first place (memoir) in the Idaho Writers Guild 2020 competition, and was featured on several lists, including LitHub Best 100 of the University Presses; The Art of Happy Moving “Home and Self-Help Books to Get You Through the Pandemic”; and the top 10 bestseller list twice in Boise, Idaho, on bookshop.org. Remote was also featured on A Mighty Blaze and other reviews, podcasts, and interview sites (The Necessities of Survival; Ravishly; Stereotype Life; Zestful AgingThe Debutante Ball, and Inland 360). Lee has delivered a number of virtual readings for hosts including Distāntia Reading Series; Writer’s Studio Arapahoe Community College; Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise, Idaho; Johns Hopkins University Creative Writing Program; Women’s National Book Association; Novel Network/Adventures by the Book; and Montana Book Festival.

Lee, with Petra Kuppers and assistant editors Rachel Sanchez and Catherine Fairfield, coedited the May 1, 2020, About Place Journal (Practices of Hope), vetting more than 2,000 submissions from around the world. To help offer a lifeline during the pandemic, she co-led a Solarpunk and Hybrid Making Workshop, which was open to the public. In addition, she co-hosted with Madelyn Dyer the Writing Mental Health Panel. Lee has also been co-leading the ongoing Practices of Hope Reading Series on YouTube Live, featuring more than 30 artists and writers to date.

In addition, Lee recently published “Buried Lives and Divided Selves,” an interview with Debra Gwartney, in Terrain.org, and “Calm,” a flash nonfiction piece for Black Earth Institute’s Hope, Inspiration, and More for Each Day. She presented on the panel “Space Is the Place: Literary Spatiality and New Approaches to Placemaking” at the Associated Writing Programs conference in San Antonio, Texas, in March; and “Writing the Future” at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Humanities on the Brink Virtual Symposium in July.

Dene Grigar

Professor Dene Grigar and her staff in the Electronic Literature Lab (CMDC, Vancouver) have published Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3, an open-source, multimedia book produced on the Scalar platform featuring born-digital literary works. The five works selected for the volume constitute long-form narrative writing identified as a hypertext novel or interactive narrative. They include Michael Joyce’s afternoon: a story (1990), Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden (1991), M.D. Coverley’s Califia (2000), Megan Heyward’s of day, of night (2014), and Mark Bernstein’s Those Trojan Girls (2016). The book contains approximately 50,000 words devoted to artist biographies, descriptions of media, and scholarly essays; more than 150 photos of artists, works, and original packaging; 85 videos of artist readings and interviews and Live Stream Traversals; and four audio files edited and enhanced by sound artist John Barber.

Linda Russo

Scholarly Associate Professor Linda Russo’s Staying with the Pause” is the result of a Community Challenge Grant awarded for the creation of new EcoArts on the Palouse content. “Staying with the Pause” is a series of site-specific dances based on current research on kinesthetic empathy choreographed and performed by WSU psychology graduate student Hannah Levy. The video, edited by English undergraduate Ally Pang, enables viewer–participants to acknowledge a need to process the uncertain emotionscape of COVID-19 and address the stress of social isolation, anxiety, and depression. The webpage was designed by English undergraduate Alexander Jensen.

Pam Thoma

Associate Professor Pamela Thoma published “Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl,” a chapter on Gillian Flynn’s novel and David Fincher’s film in the volume Noir Affect (Fordham University Press) in late May. The collection of 12 essays is edited by Christopher Breu and Elizabeth Hatmaker and proposes a new understanding of noir: rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition, noir is first and foremost a disposition defined by negative affect.

Will Hamlin

Professor Will Hamlin’s latest book, Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP), was scheduled for release in June but has been pushed back to September or October because of to the pandemic. His co-edited collection of 26 essays on Shakespeare and Montaigne will be published in February 2021 by Edinburgh University Press.


Nancy D. Bell

Invited Paper (Published)

Bell, N. D., Shardakova, M., & Shively, R. (2021). The DCT as a data collection method for L2 humor production. New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Invited Paper (Published)

Bell, N. D., & Taguchi, N. (2020). Comprehension of implicature and humor in a second language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

Ashley Boyd

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Guerrattaz, A. M., Zahler, T., Vladamir, V., & Boyd, A. (2020). ‘We acted like ELLs’: A pedagogy of embodiment in preservice teacher education. Language Teaching Research, 136216882090998.

Non-Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Barnes, M., & Boyd, A. (2021). Analysis before action: A framework for examining communities as texts. The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.

Non-Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Dyches, J., Boyd, A., & Shultz, J. (2020). Critical content knowledges in the English language arts classroom: Examining practicing teachers’ nuanced perspectives. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 53(3), 368-384.

Non-Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Boyd, A., & Miller, J. (2020). Let’s give them something to talk (and act!) about: Privilege, racism, and oppression in the middle school classroom. Voices from the Middle, 27(3), 15-18.

Book Chapter (Published)

Boyd, A., & Darragh, J. J. (2020). Putting the pieces together: Destigmatizing self-harm through Kathleen Glasgow’s Girl in Pieces. In V. Malo-Juvera & P. Greathouse (Eds.), Breaking the taboo with young adult literature (pp. 55-66). Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Book Chapter (Published)

Jeffries, M., & Boyd, A. (2021). Gender centers in higher education: Spaces for cultivating critical hope. In N.S. Niemi Marcus & M.B. Weaver-Hightower (Eds.), The Wiley handbook of gender equity in higher education (pp. 359-374). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Book Chapter (Published)

Jeffries, M., Boyd, A., Johnna, L., & Nicole, F. (2020). Privilege and practice: Examining gender through personal narrative. In S.W. Woolley & L. Airton (Eds.), Teaching about gender diversity: Teacher-tested lesson plans for K-12 classrooms (pp. 131-136). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Boyd, A. (2021). Engaging white privilege, racial injustice, and intersectionality in the canon and young adult literature. In R.W. Evans (Ed.) Handbook on teaching social issues (2nd ed.). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Boyd, A., & Darragh, J. (2021). Untold stories: Using narratives of war in the English language arts classroom to prompt social action. In B. Gibbs (Ed.), On the teaching of war: Arguments for a critical lens.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Zecena, R., & Boyd, A. (2021). Young adult literature as companion to sex, gender, and consent in the canon. In P. Greathouse & V Malo-Juvera (Eds.) Young adult and canonical literature: Pairing and teaching (Vol. 1) (pp. 51-68). Landham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Tanja Burkhard

Non-Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Burkhard, T. (2020). ‘A new spelling of my name’: Becoming a (black, feminist, immigrant) autoethnographer through Zami. Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, 20(2), 124-133.

Non-Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Kinloch, V., Penn, C., & Burkhard, T. (2020). Black Lives Matter: Storying, Identities, and Counternarratives. Journal of Literacy Research, 52(4), 382-405.

Non-Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Kinloch, V., Burkhard, T., & Graham, D. (2020). Storying youth lives: centering equity in teaching and teacher education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 33(1), 66-79.

Book Review (Published)

Burkhard, T. (2020). Book Review: Black feminism reimagined: After intersectionality [by J.C. Nash]. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 35(4), 573-57.

Book Review (Published)

Burkhard, T. (2020). Book Review: Narrative power: The struggle for human value [by K. Plummer]. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Burkhard, T. (2021). They Prefer You to Have a Conversation Like a Real American”: A Case Study of One Former Refugee in TESOL. In D.S. Warriner (Ed.), Refugee education across the lifespan: mapping experiences of language learning and language use. Springer.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Kinloch, V., Burkhard, T., & Graham, D. (2021). Storying youth lives: Focusing on equity and engagement in teaching and teacher education. In K. P. Goessling, D. E. Wright, A. C. Wager, & M. Dewhurst (Eds.), Engaging youth in critical arts pedagogies and creative research for social justice: Opportunities and challenges for arts-based work and research with young people (pp. 109-128). London: Routledge.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Wong, C., & Burkhard, T. (2021). What does it mean to decenter the white gaze?: Culturally sustaining pedagogy and supporting critical literacies in youth-led educational spaces. In J. Z. Pandya, R. A. Mora, J. H. Alford, N. A. Golden, & R. S. de Roock (Eds.). Handbook of Critical Literacies (1st ed.).

Donna M. Campbell

Web Page (Published)

Campbell, D. M. (2020). Stephen Crane Society (2002-present).

Web Page (Published)

Campbell, D. M. (2020). The Edith Wharton Society (1999-present). http://edithwhartonsociety.wordpress.com/

Web Page (Published)

Campbell, D. M. (2020). The Jack London Society (2011-present). http://jacklondonsociety.org

Web Page (Published)

Campbell, D. M. The William Dean Howells Society (1997-present). http://howellssociety.wordpress.com/

Kimberly A. Christen

Refereed Journal Article (Accepted)

Christen, K. A., Thorpe, K., & Galassi, M. (2021). Designing archival information systems through partnerships with Indigenous Australian communities: Developing the Mukurtu Hubs and Spokes Model in Australia.

Computer Application (Published)

Christen, K. A., Merrill, A., & Taylor, S. (2020). Mukurtu CMS 2.13-2.16.

Invited Paper (Published)

Christen, K. A. (2020). Towards Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Invited talk at the Native Nations Institute, Univ of AZ.

Invited Paper (Published)

Christen, K. A. (2020). Terms of Access: Refusal, Return, Repair. Keynote at the Refusal Conference UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA:

Invited Paper (Published)

Christen, K. A. (2020). Reciprocity and Responsibilities Surrounding Indigenous Archival Materials. Relationships, Reciprocity, and Responsibilities: Indigenous Studies in Archives and Beyond Conference, American Philosophical Society’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.

Invited Paper (Published)

Christen, K. A. (2020). Collaborative Curation and Digital Repatriation for Native American collections. Invited presentation to the Doris Duke Foundation.

Vanessa Cozza

Non-Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Cozza, V. M. (2020). English 402: Technical and professional Writing. Composition Studies, 48(3), 103-162.

Colin Criss

Poem (Published)

Criss, C. (2020). To the beloved in the cadaver lab. Rubor, 8, p. 3. Salt Lake City, UT: Rubor.

Gibran A. Escalera

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Escalera, G. A. (2020). “Real lives” de la frontera in Ana Castillo’s The Guardians. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 45(2), pp. 53-80.

Patricia Glazebrook

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Glazebrook, P., & Opoku, E. A. (2020). Gender and sustainability: Learning from women’s farming in Africa. Sustainability, 12(24). 10483.

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Glazebrook, P., Noll, S. E., & Opoku, E. A. (2020). Gender matters: Climate change, gender bias, and women’s farming in the global south and north. Agriculture, 10(7), 267-91.

Book Chapter (Published)

Glazebrook, P. (2021). Wissenschaft. In M. A. Wrathall (Ed.), The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Linda Heidenreich

Conference Proceeding

Heidenreich, L. Indigenous knowledge for resistance, love, and land: Selected proceedings of the 2019 meeting of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.

Book (Published)

Heidenreich, L. (2020). Nepantla2: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift. University of Nebraska.

Book (Submitted)

Heidenreich, L., & Urquijo Ruiz, R. Research Manual in Chicanx/Latinx Studies.

Encyclopedia or Catalog Entry (Published)

Heidenreich, L. (2020). Sage Encyclopedia of Trans Studies.

Annie Lampman

Book (Published)

Lampman, A. (2020). Sins of the Bees. New York, NY: Pegaseus Crime.

William Luers

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Luers, W. (2020). Narrative potentials of the loop. Hyperrhiz, 22.

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Luers, W. (2020). Making and breaking space: Rethinking Montage in digital writing. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 36.

Book Chapter (Published)

Luers, W. (2021). Having your story and eating it too: Affect and narrative in recombinant fiction. In J. O’Sullivan & D. Grigar (Eds.), Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities (pp. 226-223). London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Book Review (Published)

Luers, W. (2020). Review of the book The webcam as an emerging cinematic medium, by P. Albuquerque. Leonardo Online.

Robin E. Mays

Book Chapter (Published)

Mays, R. E. (2020). Care theory. In J. L. Egbert & M. F. Roe (Eds.), Theoretical models for teaching and research. Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial.

Michael Mays

Book (Published)

Bauman, R. A. & Franklin, R. R. (2020). Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford region (W. M. Mays, Ed.). Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press.

Book (Published)

Mays, W. M. (Ed.). (2020). Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 years of a nuclear world. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press.

Book Chapter (Published)

Mays, W. M. (2020). Introduction. Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 years of a nuclear world (pp. 1-6). Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press.

Book Chapter (Published)

Mays, W. M. (2020). Afterword. In Mays, W. M. (Ed.) Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 years of a nuclear world (pp. 245-261). Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press.

Cameron McGill

Book (Published)

McGill, C. (2021). In the Night Field. Brooklyn, NY: Augury Books.

Melissa Nicolas

Essay in Book (Accepted)

Nicolas, M., & Anglesey, L. (2021). ‘Leaky Bodies’ and Connective Mentoring: A Metho-Epistemology.

Book (Accepted)

Nicolas, M. & Sicari, A. (Eds.). (2021), Our Body of Work: Embodied Teaching and Administration in Writing Studies. Logan Utah: Utah State University Press.

Johanna L. Phelps

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Clegg, G., Lauer, J., Phelps, J., & Melonçon, L. (2021). Programmatic Outcomes in Undergraduate Technical and Professional Communication Programs. Technical Communication Quarterly, 30(1), 19–33.

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Chao, R., Dimond Young, D., Stock, D., Phelps, J., & Wulff, A. (2020). Reflective cartography: Mapping Reflections’ first twenty years. Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, 20(1), 147-192.

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Phelps, J. L. (2020). Common rule vulnerabilities: Practices, pedagogies, and effective public deliberative rhetoric. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 8(2).

Book (Published)

Phelps, J. L. (2021). Engaging Research Communities in Writing Studies: Ethics, Public Policy, and Research Design. New York, NY: Routledge.

Anna C. Plemons

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Nusbaum, A. T., Swindell, S., & Plemons, A. C. (2020). Kindness at first sight?: The role of syllabi in impression formation. Teaching of Psychology, 48(2), 130-143.

Donna L. Potts

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Potts, D. L. (2021). Moya Cannon and ecomusicology. Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis.

Laura Powers

Poem (Published)

Powers, L. (2020). After what’s left. FishFood, 1(1).

Poem (Published)

Powers, L. (2020, July 30). Between green and winter fade. MAYDAY Magazine.

Carol Siegel

Book (Accepted)

Siegel, C. R. (2021). Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment: Raced, Sexed and Erased. Indiana University Press.

Elissa Schwartz

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Gudaz, H., & Ogu, H., & Schwartz, E. (2020). Long-term dynamics of the kidney disease epidemic among HIV-infected individuals. Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics, 6(1), 52-60.

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Hull-Nye, D., Malik, B., Keshavamurthy, R., & Schwartz, E. J. (2020). Transient dynamics of the kidney disease epidemic among HIV-infected individuals. Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 1(4), 371-380.

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Costris-Vas, C., Schwartz, E., & Smith, R. (2020). Predicting COVID-19 using past pandemics as a guide: How reliable were mathematical models then, and how reliable will they be now? Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 17(6), 7502-7518. doi:10.3934/mbe.2020383.

Nishant Shahani

Podcast (Published)

Shahani, N. (2020, September 6). Black Lives Matter – Ghosts Can’t Tell Stories in We Need Gentle Truths for Now: Radical Digital Media Literacy as Podcast.

Interview (Published)

Wilder, T. (2020, June 20). New book analyzes AIDS as a ‘distribution of crises’ TheBody: The HIV/AIDS Resource.

Pamela Thoma

Book Chapter (Published)

Thoma, P. (2020). Chick noir: Surveilling femininity and the effects of loss in Gone Girl. In C. Breu & E. A. Hatmaker (Eds.), Noir Affect. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.

Roger T. Whitson

Review of Digital Archive / Tool (Published)

Whitson, R. T. (2020). Review: George Eliot Archive. Reviews in Digital Humanities, 1(2).

Patricia A. Wilde

Refereed Journal Article (Published)

Wecker, E. C., & Wilde, P. (2020). Neither here nor there: A study of dual enrollment students’ hybrid identities in first-year composition. Teaching English in the Two-year College, 48(1), 16-43.

Journal Article (Accepted)

Wilde, P. A. (2021). Composing Addiction. College Composition and Communication.

Book Chapter (Published)

Wilde, P. A. (2020). More Than Mere Display: Susie King Taylor’s My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops.” Reframing 19th-Century American Activist Rhetorics (pp. 101-111). Modern Language Association.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Wilde, P. A., & Manis, K. “A Matter of Order: The Power of Provenance in the Mercury Collection of Marion Lamm.” Unsettling the Archive.

Book Chapter (Accepted)

Wilde, P. A., Ceballos, M., & Richards, W. (2020). Keeping bad company: Struggling to listen in the archives.” In J. Fishman, R. García, and L. Rosenberg (Eds.), Community Listening.