{"id":1111,"date":"2021-07-16T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/?page_id=1111"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:01:36","slug":"recent-forthcoming-publications-2020-21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/english.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/recent-forthcoming-publications-2020-21\/","title":{"rendered":"2020-21 Recent & Forthcoming Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recent & Forthcoming Publications<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Debbie “DJ” Lee<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Regents Professor Debbie “DJ” Lee<\/b>‘s memoir Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots<\/i><\/a> 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<\/a>; The Art of Happy Moving<\/a> \u201cHome and Self-Help Books to Get You Through the Pandemic\u201d; and the top 10 bestseller list twice in Boise, Idaho, on bookshop.org. Remote<\/i> was also featured on A Mighty Blaze<\/em> and other reviews, podcasts, and interview sites (The Necessities of Survival<\/em>; Ravishly<\/a><\/em>; Stereotype Life<\/em>; Zestful Aging<\/em><\/a>;\u00a0The Debutante Ball<\/em><\/a>, and Inland 360<\/a><\/em>). Lee has delivered a number of virtual readings for hosts including Dist\u0101ntia Reading Series; Writer\u2019s Studio Arapahoe Community College; Rediscovered Bookshop, Boise, Idaho; Johns Hopkins University Creative Writing Program; Women\u2019s National Book Association; Novel Network\/Adventures by the Book; and Montana Book Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee, with Petra Kuppers and assistant editors Rachel Sanchez and Catherine Fairfield, coedited the May 1, 2020, <\/span>About Place Journal<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>Practices of Hope<\/span><\/a>), vetting more than 2,000 submissions from around the world. To help offer a lifeline during the pandemic, she co-led a<\/span> Solarpunk and Hybrid Making Workshop<\/span><\/a>, which was open to the public. In addition, she co-hosted with Madelyn Dyer the<\/span> Writing Mental Health Panel<\/span><\/a>. Lee has also been co-leading the ongoing<\/span>\u00a0Practices of Hope Reading Series<\/span><\/a> on YouTube Live, featuring more than 30 artists and writers to date.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Lee recently published \u201c<\/span>Buried Lives and Divided Selves<\/span><\/a>,\u201d an interview with Debra Gwartney, in <\/span>Terrain.org<\/span><\/i>, and \u201c<\/span>Calm<\/span><\/a>,\u201d a flash nonfiction piece for Black Earth Institute\u2019s Hope, Inspiration, and More for Each Day. She presented on the panel \u201cSpace Is the Place: Literary Spatiality and New Approaches to Placemaking\u201d at the Associated Writing Programs conference in San Antonio, Texas, in March; and \u201cWriting the Future\u201d at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Humanities on the Brink Virtual Symposium in July.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Dene Grigar and the Electronic Literature Lab staff<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Professor Dene Grigar and her staff in the Electronic Literature Lab<\/b> (CMDC, Vancouver) have published <\/span>Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3<\/span><\/i>, 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\u2019s a<\/span>fternoon: a story<\/span><\/i> (1990), Stuart Moulthrop\u2019s<\/span> Victory Garden<\/span><\/i> (1991), M.D. Coverley\u2019s <\/span>Califia<\/span><\/i> (2000), Megan Heyward\u2019s <\/span>of day, of night<\/span><\/i> (2014), and Mark Bernstein\u2019s <\/span>Those Trojan Girls<\/span><\/i> (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.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda Russo<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Scholarly Associate Professor Linda Russo’s <\/b>\u201c<\/span>Staying with the Pause<\/span><\/a>\u201d is the result of a Community Challenge Grant awarded for the creation of new EcoArts on the Palouse content. \u201cStaying with the Pause\u201d 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\u2013participants 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.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pamela Thoma<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Associate Professor Pamela Thoma<\/b> published \u201cChick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl<\/em>,\u201d a chapter on Gillian Flynn\u2019s novel and David Fincher\u2019s film in the volume<\/span> Noir Affect <\/span><\/i>(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.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Hamlin<\/h2>\n\n\n
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<\/b>Professor Will Hamlin’s<\/b> latest book, <\/span>Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction<\/span><\/i> (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.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nancy D. Bell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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