Below is a small selection of notable publications from English Department faculty throughout 2025, comprising new and forthcoming books, chapters in edited collections, and journal articles. For a full, searchable database of English Department publications, please click here.
New and Forthcoming Faculty Books
David Shields’s book Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season was reissued by the University of Nebraska Press.
Joseph Butwin (Emeritus Professor)’s book Salud y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was published by the University of Illinois Press.
Cristina Sánchez-Martín's book, Tejiendo Vida: Bodies, Matter, and Language in Transnational English Teachers’ Storying, is forthcoming from Multilingual Matters (MM).
Shawn Wong’s novel, The Ancient and Occupied Heart of Grieg Xu, is forthcoming from UW Press.
Chapters in Edited Collections
Josephine Walwema’s chapter “Technologies of Recovery for Social Change” was published in Jones, N. N., Gonzales, L., Haas, A. M., & Williams, M. F. (Eds.) (2025). The Routledge handbook of social justice in technical and professional communication (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Rhema Hokama’s book chapter, “Shakespeare and Calvinism,” is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook to Shakespeare and Religion, ed. William Stockton (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming 2025).
Hokama’s chapter “Cannibal religion: Maritime exchange and English Protestant identity in early modern English travel writing on Francis Drake and the Americas,” is forthcoming in Fictions of Sacrifice: Early Modern Texts, Political Theology, and Secularization, eds. Freya Sierhuis and Francesco Quatrini, Routledge Series in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism (Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming 2025).
Colette Moore’s chapter “Conventionalising strategies of verbal and visual information” was published in Graphic Practices and Literacies in the History of English, ed. Matti Peikola, Jukka Tyrkkö, Mari-Liisa Varila. Turnhout: Brepols.
Moore’s chapter "Congregation or coven: talking about civic assembly in Middle English" was published in Language, Linguistics, and Middle English Literature: essays in honor of Karla Taylor. Elizabeth Allen and Catherine Sanok, eds. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer.
Calvin Pollak’s assignment “Probing Large Language Models for Social Bias” was published in the August 2025 edition of TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, edited by Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano.
Journal Articles
Jonathan Isaac’s co-authored article “Challenging the ‘We’ in Academia: Activist Cases of Resistance” with Kefaya Diab, Andrew Bowman, Bruce Kovanen, and Liz Miller was published in Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 36.1 (August 2025): 129-144.
Chris Holstrom's article "Large Language Models (LLMs) and Cataloging: Exploring How ChatGPT and Copilot Assign Subject Headings and Call Numbers" won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization and will be published in an upcoming edition of the Knowledge Organization journal.
Josephine Walwema’s co-authored article with Mary Lourdes Silva and Matt Thomas, “Cruel and Usual: The Psychological and Financial Cost of SETs” was published in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 25(2), pp.155-175.
Walwema’s co-authored article with Jennifer Bay, “A History of DEI: How Regulatory and Compliance Rhetorics Influence Organizations” was published in Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, 2025, pp. 405–22.
Megan Callow’s article “Recognizing and Articulating Relationships: The Program for Writing Across Campus at the University of Washington, Seattle” was published in Composition Forum, vol. 55.
Jonathan Radocay's article, "Won’t You Be My (Allotment) Neighbor? Mapping Cherokee Homelands in Diaspora," was published in a special issue of Transmotion, vol. 10, no. 2 (2025).
Rhema Hokama’s article “‘Give me the ocular proof’: Certitude and experiential knowledge in Othello and the English Calvinist tradition,” is forthcoming in Early Modern Theology, Corporeality, and Literary Aesthetics, a special issue of Literature and Theology, ed. Patrick McGrath (forthcoming 2025).
Anna Preus’s co-authored article with Melanie Micir, “Feminist Modernist Collaboration, Then and Now: Digitizing Hope Mirrlees’s Paris” was published in Modernism/modernity Print Plus 9, no. 4 (July 2025). Special cluster on “Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem @ 100.”
Preus’s co-authored article with Melanie Walsh, "Not With a Bang but a Tweet: Democracy, Culture Wars, and the Memeification of T.S. Eliot" was published in Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures, edited by Matthew Kilbane. Amherst College Press: 2025.
Preus’s article “Small Press Excoticism: Rabindranath Tagore and the Late Arts and Crafts Movement” is forthcoming in the journal English Literary History in winter 2025.