Category: English & Philosophy

Student Spotlight: Rose Hall MA in English Literature and Writing Rose Hall is a graduate student in the Master’s program in English Literature and Writing. She graduates in June 2020. What projects have you worked on that you would like to highlight? There are so many exciting projects I’ve gotten to work on. Last year,…

Student Spotlight: Lauren Gilmore BA in English: Literary Studies Lauren Gilmore is a student in the English Bachelor of Arts program with an emphasis in Literary Studies. She will graduate in March 2021. What projects have you worked on that you would like to highlight? Right now, I am preparing to teach a class at…

Student Spotlight: Grace Wahlman BA in Technical Communication 2020 Francis B. Huston Medallion Recipient Grace Wahlman is a student in the BA in Technical Communication program, and she graduates June 2020. What projects have you worked on that you would like to highlight? Currently I write and edit freelance, which is something I’d be interested…

Student Spotlight: Aaron Hutchinson BA Interdisciplinary Studies in Journalism, Creative Writing, and Screenwriting Aaron Hutchinson is a student in the Interdisciplinary Studies program in Creative Writing, Journalism, and Screenwriting. He will graduate in Winter 2021. What projects have you worked on that you would like to highlight? I currently write two articles a week for…

EWU Rhetoric & Technical Communication alumna Raquel DeLeon (formerly Dean) recently published her article “User Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Latinos with the Frontier Behavioral Health Website,” in Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum. DeLeon shows in her article that technical communication and advocacy are not mutually exclusive endeavors. DeLeon’s…

Eastern Washington University alumna Maura Lammers finds a career after getting her MFA in Nonfiction and achieving publication in The New York Times and The Masters Review Eastern Washington University alumni Maura Lammers has had her fair share of successes and learning moments in her life. She comes from a diverse professional background and has…

Call For Papers: Pencil’s Down, Student-Led Symposium, Co-Sponsored by EWU English Department, Stands Up Against Bigotry and Weaponized Hatred Symposium Date: To Be Announced Symposium Location/Format: To Be Announced In light of the recent COVID-19 epidemic/pandemic, we are reevaluating the format/location/date/programming for the symposium and will be making an announcement about alternative format/location/date/programming soon. Abstracts…

Every November the National Council of Teachers of English hosts a convention where thousands of educators, experts, authors, administrators, publishers, and more travel to Baltimore, Maryland to attend workshops, listen to keynote speakers, make presentations, etc. For the past four years, professor Shelly Shaffer has had the honor of taking a few of her students…

Adam Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the Languages and Humanities Department of the Northern Marianas College (NMC), located in Micronesia. He has been teaching on the island of Saipan since 2010 with a brief stint in Japan. His poetry appears in The Journal, the Hawaii Review, Barrow Street, The Istanbul Review, BlazeVOX, Shark Reef, the Lummox Journal, and Crab Creek…

Kate Peterson earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she now works as the director of Get Lit! Programs. Her poetry and prose has been published in Glassworks, The Sierra Nevada Review, Barnstorm, Sugar House Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Aethlon, Packingtown Review, among others. Her chapbook Grist won the 2016 Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and was published in October, 2016. Learn…