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Leni Zumas, English faculty, was a featured author at two international literary festivals: the Brooklyn Book Festival in New York City on Sept. 16 and Festival America in Vincennes, France, on Sept. 22. 

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Leni Zumas, English faculty, was a featured writer at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August.

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Janice Lee, English Dept. faculty member, authored the essay “On trees, moss, and feeling at a distance,” published on the website Medium.

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Susan Kirtley, English Department faculty member, authored the chapter “Once and Again, Ack!” Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite’s Cathy,” published in Comics Studies Here and Now, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama.

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Thea Prieto authored "A Revolution in Listening" published in the May/June 2018 issue of Poets & Writers. Thea interviewed MFA alum Jeff Alessandrelli for the story. Visit Poets & Writers to read the piece.Thea also interviewed our own Leni Zumas, which was featured in Entropy; the interview is called "The Mythology of Motherhood: Leni Zumas on Red Clocks" and can be found on the Entropy website.

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Leni Zumas, English faculty, authored an interview, "Heteronormativity Is the Ultimate Karaoke: An Interview with Chelsey Johnson," published in Tin House, March 2018.

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Marie Lo, English faculty, presented her paper, "The Specters of Colonialism: The Paratext of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker" at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference in San Francisco, March 29.

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Susan Kirtley, associate professor in the Comic Studies program, was nominated as one of the 2017 Comics Industry's People of the Year. Though the honor was awarded to Emil Ferris, Professor Kirtley was noted for her dedication to creating "a strong academic presence for comics at the university" and her work with local comics creators and publishers.

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Tony Wolk, English faculty, authored the article "The Word for World is Ursula," published on Propeller.

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Tom Fisher, English faculty, published a book of poems, Sorsere, with The Cultural Society.

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Leni Zumas, Associate Professor in the English Department, was recently profiled in Publishers Weekly, ahead of her forthcoming third novel, Red Clocks.

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Susan Kirtley, English faculty, presented a paper, “Starting Something: Creating a Comics Studies Program,” at the inaugural Comics Studies Society conference at the University of Illinois.

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Shane Abrams, English Dept. graduate student, has published a new open access textbook, EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Handbook and Anthology for College Writers, through a PSU Library initiative.To read or download the book, a free, digital resource that foregrounds sample writing by PSU students, visit PDXScholar at https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/20/

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Sarah Read, English faculty, authored "Writing Down the Machine: Enacting Latourian Ethnography to Trace How a Supercomputer Circulates the Halls of Washington, DC as a Report." published in Chapter 6 in Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication, edited by Kristen Moore and Daniel Richards.

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Several English Department Comics Studies Instructors have been nominated for Eisner Awards this year. Mark Russell was nominated for Best Limited Series, Best Writer, and Best Humor Publication for The Flintstones. Diana Schutz was nominated for Best Reality-Based Work for Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852–1903 and Best U.S. Edition of International Material for Flight of the Raven. Shannon Wheeler was nominated for Best Digital Comic for Harvey Kurtzman's Marley's Ghost. Named for acclaimed comics creator Will Eisner, the awards bring attention to and highlight the best publications and creators in comics and graphic novels. 

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Susan Kirtley, English faculty, wrote a review of Serials to Graphic Novels: The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book, which appeared in English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920, Vol 61, No. 4.

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