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ALLISON MACHLIS MEYER (LC English alum ’01) publishes her first book, Telltale Women: Chronicling Gender in Early Modern Historiography.


The book is scheduled for publication on January 1, 2021.

A look into how an English major could find passion in a law degree at the Lewis & Clark Law School.

Audrey Gutierrez ’19 is a recent Lewis & Clark College Rhetoric and Media Studies major who was heavily involved in the English department. She has worked as a resident advisor for the Fir Acres Writing Workshop and written for the LC Lit Review and the LC Journal of Social Justice. In college, she worked forCALYX Press and Artslandia Magazine. She has spent the last year teaching preschoolers and highschoolers English in southern Spain. She is currently writing her first novel about five sisters living on the edge of Cuba during the revolution. These sisters face the death of their parents, the siege of soldiers, and the threat of madness amidst their isolation. Audrey was also recently chosen as the winner of the F(r)iction Literary Magazine Winter 2019 Short Story Award. She will be attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the fall of 2020.

After the English Department’s heartfelt virtual send-off on April 30th, we wanted a place to keep in touch and share suggestions with our graduates.

There is a new addition to Lewis & Clark’s Watzek Library Special Collections’ body of archival materials. Through a B.H. Breslauer Foundation grant, the college is now home to an Italian book of hours worth just over $45,000, which will make it the only Italian illuminated manuscript in the greater Portland area.

Associate Professor of English Karen Gross has been awarded a Short Term Fellowship from the New York Public Library (NYPL). The NYPL offers such Research Fellowships so that scholars outside the New York metropolitan area may conduct on-site research using the Library’s extensive special collections.

For Associate Professor of English Pauls Toutonghi, his grandfather’s journey from Aleppo, Syria to the United States in the mid-twentieth century provides powerful inspiration. Toutonghi tells his grandfather’s story in The New Yorker in a just-published essay, “Leaving Aleppo.” 

Two of just 37 poets selected from among 1,800 applicants, poets Corey Van Landingham BA ’08 and Nick Lantz BA ’03 are recipients of 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. One of Van Landingham’s poems was printed in the Jan. 16 issue of The New Yorker.

A version of Lyell Asher’s article entitled, “Your Students Crave Moral Simplicity. Resist” appeared in the  February 10, 2017 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.  This essay originally appeared in The American Scholar.

For Associate Professor of English Pauls Toutonghi, summer break meant a three-month national tour for his newly released narrative nonfiction book, Dog Gone. Now he’s back in the classroom, teaching creative writing and encouraging his students to mine their own lives for stories.

Associate Professor of English, Rachel Cole, has been selected to participate in an interdisciplinary seminar on slave narratives.

Funding the “promotion of international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture, and science.”

As the recipient of a prestigious fellowship at the International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle, Dr. Pauls Toutonghi will spend four weeks in residency, working on his next book, The Lost Ocean.

Dr. Rishona Zimring received a Newberry Library Short Term Fellowship for Summer 2015.

Mary Szybist, associate professor of English, is the winner of the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry with her latest collection, Incarnadine. Szybist is the second National Book Award poetry winner from Lewis & Clark, joining William Stafford, who won in 1963.