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This collection features scholarly work by faculty members in the Department of English at Washington State University.
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Boyd, Ashley
This collection features scholarly work by Ashley Boyd, assistant professor in the Department of English at Washington State University. -
Brians, Paul
This collection includes work by Paul Brians, emeritus faculty member in the Department of English at Washington State University. -
Campbell, Donna
This collection features research by Donna Campbell, professor of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature in the English department at Washington State University. -
Christen, Kimberly
This collection features scholarly work by Kim Christen, associate professor in the Department of English at Washington State University.
Recent Submissions
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Engaging Students in Autobiographical Critique as a Social Justice Tool: Narratives of Deconstructing and Reconstructing Meritocracy and Privilege with Pre-service Teachers
(Educational Studies, 2015)This self-study involves instructors of a Social Justice in Education course at a large university who engaged pre-service teacher education students with assignments intended to solicit their critical self-reflection and ... -
Batteries, big red, and busses: Using critical theory to read for social class in Eleanor & Park
(Study and Scrutiny, 2015)In this article, the authors posit the avenue of young adult literature as an untapped resource for cultivating students’ knowledge of social theories and their recognition of societal inequities. Combining specific ... -
Tribal Archives, Traditional Knowledge, and Local Contexts: Why the “s” Matters
(Journal of Western Archives, 2015)In this article I examine the landscape of tribal or Indigenous archival management as it relates to digital assets and, more specifically, how these might help us reimagine the intellectual property needs of local, ... -
Examining the apprenticeship of observation with preservice teachers: The practice of blogging to facilitate autobiographical reflection and critique
(Caddo Gap Press, 2013)One of the goals of successful teacher preparation is to develop professionals who are cognizant of their own backgrounds and who critically reflect on those experiences for future practice (Darling-Hammond, 2006). Overall, ... -
Does Information Really Want to be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness
(International Journal of Communication, 2012)The "information wants to be free" meme was born some 20 years ago from the free and open source software development community. In the ensuing decades, information freedom has merged with debates over open access, digital ... -
"Have you read my 'Christ' story?": Mary Austin's The Man Jesus and London's The Star Rover
(The Call, 2012)This article considers Christ stories written by authors Mary Austin and Jack London at the beginning of the twentieth century. That Austin, a mystic who believed she was in touch with Indian spirits, and London, an avowed ... -
The Next 150 Years: Wharton Goes Digital
(2012)In thinking about the digital future of Wharton studies, I want to turn backward to ltalian Backgrounds (L905), a series of travel essays, mostly previously published, that came out six months before The House of Mirth ( ... -
Opening Archives: Respectful Repatriation
(American Archivist, 2011)In the last twenty years, many collecting institutions have heeded the calls by indigenous activists to integrate indigenous models and knowledge into mainstream practices. The digital terrain poses both possibilities and ... -
W. D. Howells's Unpublished Letters to J. Harvey Greene
(Resources for American Literary Study, 2011)The relationship between W. D. Howells (1H37-1920) and his boyhood friend .James Harvey (or Hervey) Greene (1833-90) is treated only briefly in biographies of Howells, an understandable situation given the extensive network ... -
Edith Wharton's "Book of the Grotesque": Sherwood Anderson, Modernism, and the Late Stories
(Edith Wharton Review, 2010)This article discusses Edith Wharton's "The Looking Glass" and "The Day of the Funeral." -
Book review: Anita Clair Fellman; Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture
(Tulsa Studies in Women�۪s Literature, 2009)Here Donna Campbell reviews the book: Fellman, Anita Clair. Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Impact on American Culture. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. -
Archival Challenges and Digital Solutions in Aboriginal Australia
(Society for American Archaeology, 2008-08)This article considers the shift in museums and archives toward repatriating cultural materials to indigenous communities and how digital technologies play into this trend. It notes challenges inherent to the digitization ... -
Anthropology in/of Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies
(Cultural Anthropology, 2008-08)Presented here is a conversation among anthropologists whose research and experience have given them special insight into recent changes in the ways scholarship is produced and shared. -
Walden in the Suburbs: Thoreau, Rock Hudson, and Natural Style in Douglas Sirk’s All that Heaven Allows
(Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel of the 1950s, her heroine Esther Greenwood announces at one point "I hate Technicolor" (41) because of its "lurid costumes" and the way in which characters tend "to ... -
A Literary Expatriate: Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, and the Politics of a Literary Reputation
(Edith Wharton Review, 2008)This article discusses Hamlin Garland's relationship with Edith Wharton and his three published recollections of their meeting as indices of her critical standing. -
A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick’s Out of Bohemia and the Artists’ Novel of the 1890s
(University of Nebraska Press, 2008)This article provides a biographical sketch of Gertrude Christian Fosdick and analyzes her little-known novel of a female artist in the context of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Hawthorne's The Marble Faun. -
More than a Family Resemblance? Agnes Crane's A Victorious Defeat� and Stephen Crane's The Third Violet
(Stephen Crane Studies, 2007)Like his younger contemporary Jack London, who famously claimed to have had "no mentor but myself," Stephen Crane acknowledged few influences on his writing. Established authors such as W. D. Howells and contemporaries ... -
Tracking Properness: Repackaging Culture in a Remote Australian Town
(Cultural Anthropology, 2006-08)This article examines the production and circulation of digitized indigenous traditions as cultural objects that repackage tradition and reposition indigeneity. From its initial release in 2000, Yawulyu Mungamunga Women's ... -
Changing the Default: Taking Aboriginal Systems of Accountability Seriously
(World Anthropologies Network, 2006-05)In what follows, the author examines how recent indigenous digital projects challenge both expanded copyright laws as a means to “protect” indigenous culture and the very notion of “communal” rights as the primary state ...