WSU English Department

05/22/2026

Happy Friday, Everyone 😀
We are sharing some beautiful photos from the Graduate School and GPSA’s Evening of Excellence 2026 🎉

05/15/2026

Happy Friday, Everyone 😀

Dr. Linda Russo will be at the Pullman Art Walk (3-6 p.m., at Brused Books) this Saturday with the "Plant Companion Field Guide." Come by and say hi!

From Linda Russo:

Can we together remember and imagine past and future lineages of earth-honoring practices of interspecies kinship and care?
In the "Plant Companion Field Guide," Cori Dantini’s plant portraits invoke botanical vitality while my writing - poems, essayettes integrating ecological, ethno/botanical and herbalist knowledge, and lists of what to look for - reveals traditions of ecocultural entwinement to bring the plants near. Postcards of each plant pose questions to draw out entanglements (present or ancestral) with each plant’s way of being in the world.
Plant–human relationships enliven and support people across time and space. Plants that make up the native Palouse prairie have relatives in many places around the world. One of these five plants quite possibly influenced you or your ancestors’ way of life. What's your Plant Companion story?

05/13/2026

Congratulations, English Grads 🥳🎉🎊
We are sharing some beautiful moments from WSU 2026 Spring Commencement Ceremony 😀

05/01/2026

Happy Friday!
We are sharing some photos from the English Department's Awards Ceremony 2026. The ceremony took place on April 24.
Many Congratulations to all the Awardees 🎉🎉🎉

04/22/2026

Many Congratulations to Dr. M.A. Miller for winning the 2026 ACLS Fellowship!

M.A. Miller is an Assistant Professor of English and WGSS. As an ACLS Fellow, Dr. Miller will work on his project, “Gender Unconformities: Deep Time’s Trans Matters.”

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships provide up to $60,000 to support scholars for six to 12 months of full-time research and writing. Awardees who are independent scholars, adjunct faculty, or have teaching-intensive roles receive an additional stipend between $3,000 and $6,000. This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 63 scholars who are poised to make original and significant contributions to their field. The awardees were selected from a pool of over 2,000 applicants through a multi-stage peer review process and represent a broad range of institutions, fields, and career stages.

“We are proud to award ACLS Fellowships to 63 outstanding scholars across a range of fields,” said ACLS President Joy Connolly. “Deep understanding of humanity and human endeavor doesn’t come out of thin air: it rests on the work of generations of scholars who need time to do research and develop their arguments. We salute the new fellows’ contributions to knowledge and to society, and we celebrate their expertise and dedication.”

https://www.acls.org/recent-fellows/?_fellow_year=2026&_fellow_program=363&utm_source=2026+ACLS+Fellowship+Award+Announcement&utm_campaign=c4594b51e7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_04_13_03_44&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_760f3a5c1d-c4594b51e7-669709437

04/22/2026

Happening today 😀

04/20/2026

04/20/2026

Many Congratulations to Sumaiya Sharmin, a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition, for receiving the "2026 CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award" 🎉 "The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) sponsors the Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award to support scholars whose work participates in the making of meaning out of sexual and gender minority experiences."

We are sharing photos from the CCCC Conference 2026 that Sumaiya shared with us!

04/17/2026

Many Congratulations to Josie Cohen-Rodríguez for her recent publication in the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, titled "Embodied Relational Practice as Liberatory Memory Work: Theories of Communion, Protest, and Play." 🎉Josie co-authored this article with Lotus Norton-Wisla, Interim Head of Manuscripts, Archives & Special Collections at WSU. Josie is a PhD student in Literary Studies and the LGBTQ+ Student Life & Community Coordinator at WSU.

We are sharing the link to her publication :)https://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/files/documents/8330ddcd-07e4-43c2-8e56-028a95ea9538.pdf

04/15/2026

Many Congratulations to Sumaiya Sharmin, a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition, for receiving the Richard R. and Constance M. Albrecht Scholarship 🎉 The Albrecht Scholarship is awarded by WSU's College of Arts and Sciences.

We are sharing the CAS announcement about Sumaiya:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXFf2_EgQJz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==