| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Alison Powell | | |
| News: | Alison Powell has been admitted to the M.A.in Literature program at CWU with an appointment as a Teaching Assistant. |
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| GRADUATE STUDENTS |
| Name: | Scott Tomberlin | | |
| News: | Scott Tomberlin graduated in Spring with a Master of Arts (Literature), completing his creative project, “Border States” (a novel), under the direction of Kathy Whitcomb (Chair), Joe Powell, and Chris Schedler.
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| Name: | Don Schussler | | |
| News: | Don Schussler graduated in Spring with a Master of Arts (Literature), completing his thesis, “Imagining History in E.L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times and The Book of Daniel,” under the direction of Chris Schedler (Chair), Joe Powell, and Daniel Herman (History). |
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| Name: | Jennifer Ramm | | |
| News: | Jennifer Ramm graduated in Spring with a Master of Arts (Literature), completing her creative project, “Fallout” (a collection of short stories), under the direction of Kathy Whitcomb (Chair), Joe Powell, and Paulus Pimomo.
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| Name: | Scott Klepach | | |
| News: | Scott Klepach graduated in Spring with a Master of Arts (Literature), completing his creative project, “Gatekeeper” (a novella), under the direction of Joe Powell (Chair), Kathy Whitcomb, and Steve Olson. He will be pursuing a college teaching position and continuing to work on his creative writing.
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| Name: | Marisa Humphrey | | |
| News: | Marisa Humphrey graduated in Spring with a Master of Arts (Literature), completing her exam under the direction of Gerry Stacy (Chair), Laila Abdalla, and Patsy Callaghan. She will be pursuing a college teaching position and entering the M.A. program in History at CWU.
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| Name: | Billy Gibson | | |
| News: | Billy Gibson graduated in Spring with a Master of Arts (Literature), completing his superior paper, “Crime Waves: Deceit, Larceny, Collusion, and Murder in the Victorian Criminal Underworld in Several Works by Charles Dickens,” under the direction of George Drake (Chair), Gerry Stacy, and Paulus Pimomo. He will be entering the teacher certification program at CWU.
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| Name: | Jessica Durgan | | |
| News: | Jessica Durgan graduated in Spring with her Master of Arts (Literature), completing her thesis, “Who Read What? Depictions of Reading in 19th Century British Novels,” under the direction of George Drake (Chair), Laila Abdalla, and Paulus Pimomo. She will be entering a Ph.D. program at the University of Texas A & M.
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| Name: | Margaret Amad | | |
| News: | Margaret Amad graduated with her Masters of Arts (Literature) in Spring, completing her exam under the direction of Gerry Stacy (Chair), Laila Abdalla, and John Vifian.
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| Name: | Matthew Huett | | |
| News: | Matthew Huett (M.A. Literature and Teaching Certification) has accepted a teaching position at a high school in Nyssa, Oregon. |
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| Name: | Jessica Durgan | | |
| News: | Jessica Durgan (M.A. LIT) has been admitted to the Ph.D. program at Texas A & M with an appointment as a Teaching Assistant and a $20,000 Merit Fellowship.
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| FACULTY MEMBERS |
| Name: | Lila Harper | | |
| News: | Lila Harper's article "'The Starfish that Burns': Gendering the Jellyfish" has been published in the collection _Forces of Nature: Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourse of Western Culture_ (Cambridge Scholars). |
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| Name: | Lila Harper | | |
| News: | Lila Harper has been appointed Senior Bibliographer for the Modern Language Association's International Bibliography. Only accomplished bibliographers of long-standing are appointed to this position. She has contributed to the MLA Bibliography since 1996 and is also a Senior Contributor to the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), published by the Modern Humanities Research Association, housed at Cambridge University. |
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| Name: | Lila Harper | | |
| News: | Lila Harper has published an article titled, "Clues in the Street: Sherlock Holmes, Martin Hewitt, and _Mean Streets_, in _The Journal of Popular Culture_ 42.1 (2009): 67-89. |
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| Name: | Lila Harper | | |
| News: | Lila Harper presented a paper titled “G. H. Lewes, George Eliot, and the Medusa at the Seaside” at the 2008 Modern Language Association national convention, San Francisco, Dec. 27-30, 2008. Also at the convention she chaired a panel on part-time stereotypes and was presented with a certificate of achievement for distnguished contributions made as a Fellow for the Modern Language Association International Bibliography, 2005-08 during the awards ceremony. |
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| Name: | Demaris Garceau | | |
| News: | Demaris Garceau finished her Master of Science in Resource Management in 2007. Since fall of 1995, she has been teaching writing and literture courses at Oregon State University, and the History of Science and Technology at Linn Benton Community College. At OSU, Demaris has taught Media Writing 201, Business Writing 214, Style in Composition 323, and Technical Writing 327. She also taught a course in Latin American and Caribbean Literature. Lately, she mostly teaches the Technical Writing courses, which she enjoys as she works with students in engineering, the sciences, education, and arts and humanities. She is still working on a novella and developing her prose poems. This year, she participated in creating a collaborative sculpture for Da Vinci Days in Corvallis, Oregon, and is planning to work on another collaborative kinetic sculpture for next year's Da Vinci Days. (Check out Da Vinci Days on the web--very cool!) |
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| Name: | Toni Culjak | | |
| News: | Dr. Toni Culjak has been selected to participate in the China Field Seminar July 3-24 in the People's Republic of China. The program, sponsored by the Asian Studies Development Program, Peking University, and the Chinese Ministry of Education, will explore historical sites, cultural representations, and performing arts in Beijng, Shanxi, Xian, and Shanghai. |
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| Name: | Joseph Powell | | |
| News: | Professor Joseph Powell was elected Interim Chair of the Department of English. He will begin his one year term in Spetember. |
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| Name: | Dr. Christopher Schedler | | |
| News: | Chris Schedler's article "Bugs in the Capitalist Machine: The Schizo Violence of Alejandro Morales's The Brick People." has been accepted for publication in MELUS (Multiethnic Literature of the United States).
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| Name: | Lila Harper | | |
| News: | Lila Harper presented a conference paper titled "What We Can Learn About Plagiarism from Master's Theses" at 57th annual Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, March 22-25. Two conference blogs were written on the talk. And an expanded version of this material, "What Can We Learn About Plagiarism from Master's Theses?" (a slightly different title) was published in the peer-reviewed journal _Professional Studies Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal_ (St. John's University), vol. 2.2 (2006): 1-15. |
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| Name: | Virginia Mack | | |
| News: | Dr.Virginia Mack has been selected to teach in London for a quarter through the NCSA (Northwest Council on Study Abroad) program. Her appointment is for winter quarter 2007. Dr. Mack has travelled extensively in England and has offered spring break classes in Ireland for the past three years. |
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| Name: | Judith Kleck and Joseph Powell | | |
| News: | Judy Kleck and Joe Powell will be reading their poetry at the Pontoons' celebration of regional writers in Leavenworth on Feb. 25th. The invited readers have been or will be published in Pontoons' yearly magazine. The reading is sponsored by the Floating Bridge Chapbook series. Joe and Judy read at an earlier Ponttons' celebration held earlier this year in Richland.
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| Name: | Joseph Powell | | |
| News: | Owen Wister Review will publish a poem by Joe Powell called "The Steer". It will appear in the next issue. |
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| Name: | Dr. Liahna Armstrong | | |
| News: | Dr. Liahna Armstrong was elected Vice-President of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assocation Board of Directors, taking office in February 2006.
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| Name: | Gerald Stacy | | |
| News: | Gerald Stacy recently published an article on one of Willa Cather's short stories. The article titled "Teaching 'Paul's Case,'" appeared in the Fall edition of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction. The Fall volume (6) was dedicated to articles on Cather's short stories. |
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| ALUMNI |
| Name: | Gary Rees | | |
| News: | Gary Rees (M.A. LIT 2005) has been admitted to the Ph.D. program in English at the University of Houston with an appointment as a Teaching Assistant and a $15,000 University Presidential Fellowship.
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| Name: | Erik Chandler | | |
| News: | Erik Chandler (M.A. LIT 2004), who is currently in a Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, presented a paper entitled "'With Additional Dialogue by William Shakespeare': Historiography, Emplotment, and The Black Adder" at the 28th Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in February 2006. He is also writing a book review of James Liddy's "The Doctor's House: An Autobiography" that should be published in The Cream City Review this fall.
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| Name: | Amy Goeltzenleuchter | | |
| News: | AMY GOELTZENLEUCHTER works for Pearson Longman as the ELL specialist for the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii and Alaska. She is also working on a second draft of her screenplay "Revisiting the Raft."
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| News: | The English Graduate and Undergraduate clubs are holding a poetry reading and food drive on April 11th at 7pm in Michaelsen 126. The clubs are asking for donations of either one dollar or a nonperishable food item; the food will be donated to Ellensburg's Hope Source food bank. The evening's readers will include CWU students and faculty. In addition to the entertainment, food and beverages will be provided. |
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