WSU Vancouver School of Languages, Cultures, and Race

Happy graduation day to our Vancougs attending the ceremony today and finishing up. We wish you light and prosperity in your future endeavors.

To all others, have a fantastic summer and we will see you in August.

American Studies PhD Candidate and CES Instructor Kassandra Castillo presented her paper "Interpretations of Bodies After Death: Using Conocimeinto and Testimonio" at the Latinx Studies Association Biennial Conference in Austin, TX during the week of March 26-29, 2026

Here's an abstract of her paper:

Drawing from the work in Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected by Lisa Marie Cacho and Venus in Two Acts by Saidiya Hartman, where racialized bodies are deconstructed by challenging the lens of dehumanization that the U.S. has on BIPOC communities, I argue that these scholars are highlighting the importance of feminist epistemologies with the use of testimonio and what Gloria Anzaldúa calls conocimiento. The significance of reexamining these pieces is necessary and I resist saying “now more than ever” because we have always needed each other, when considering the unfortunate reality of today’s political climate and the threat to life on the people of our community by way of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. Particularly, the point of being in conversation with these authors and understanding the role of feminist epistemologies in their work, is to show how we have these frameworks that solidify the intentionality and care that, especially by women of color scholars, is taken when discussing death.

Congratulations, Kassandra!

Check it out!!

Congratulations to Professor Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (Comparative Ethnic Studies and American Studies and Culture, SLCR Vancouver campus), who has just published her first fictional piece. Please, enjoy the reading of Dr. Lugo-Lugo’s short story, “Calle Barbosa”:
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/964015

Our CES Vancouver Faculty!

Our WSU Vancouver faculty members, Drs. Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen Lugo-Lugo published an article in Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies. The article is titled “Science, Medicine, and Monsters in Today’s American Popular Imaginary”
It can be found online here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/15327086251407134
Congratulations!

Hi all!! Hoping the Spring semester's treating you well. Please check out and share with students and advisors the flyers for WSUV School of Languages, Cultures, and Race's Fall 2026 offerings in CES and For Lang. Thank you!

Students, here are the CES courses we will be offering in Spring 2026.

Dear Students:

The School of Languages, Cultures, and Race in Vancouver along with its faculty, instructors, and advisors wish you a wonderful start of the semester.

Let's do this!
SLCR Vancouver

Dr. Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (Professor of CES) published a Featured Review for Choice. Click on the image below to get to it. Congrats, Dr. B!

Channeling Lordean Rage: How Anger Can Be a Tool of Anti-Racist Action - Choice 360 Read the latest featured review from Choice of "The Case for Rage," analyzing how rage can be channeled productively against racism.

Good luck finishing the term, students! SLCR Vancouver faculty wishes you a wonderful summer and look forward to seeing you in the Fall for the new academic year.

Students, we see you :)