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Oregon Humanities is a journal of ideas and perspectives published twice a year by the Oregon Council for the Humanities. Each issue includes essays and articles that explore a particular theme from a variety of perspectives, broadening the ways in which readers think about a subject and providing a basis for further thoughtful discussion.
Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007
- Kathleen Holt
- EDITOR
- Jennifer Viviano
- GRAPHIC DESIGN
- Leigh van der Werff
- PUBLICATIONS ASSISTANT
- Allison Dubinsky
- COPY EDITOR
- Editorial Advisory Board
- Tom Booth
- Brian Doyle
- Debra Gwartney
- Julia Heydon
- Marianne Keddington-Lang
- Guy Maynard
- Win McCormack
- Camela Raymond
- Kate Sage
- Linny Stovall
- Rich Wandschneider
- Curt Yehnert
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Contributors
Jennifer Allen is education program director and course director for the Humanity in Perspective program at the Oregon Council for the Humanities.
Edwin Battistella teaches in the English and Writing Department at Southern Oregon University. His book Bad Language was a finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award.
Portland writer Brett Campbell writes for Oregon Quarterly, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He has been an editor at the Texas Observer and Oregon Quarterly magazines and taught magazine journalism at the University of Oregon. Issues of government secrecy and transparency have always been important to him: in 1991, he won the award for outstanding investigative reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Laton Carter's first collection of poems, Leaving (University of Chicago Press) was selected by Mark Doty as the winner of the 2005 Oregon Book Award. His work was recently reviewed by Robert Archambeau for the Notre Dame Review in the essay, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Poetry."
Michael Clark is associate professor of literature and film at Portland State University. His areas of interest are the intersections of literature, film theory, and philosophy. He is also a lawyer, with an emphasis on First Amendment and art law. His upcoming work is a study of the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, three short story collections, and a book of personal essays. A 2006-07 Guggenheim Fellow, he currently serves as chair of the English department at Oregon State University.
Dan DeWeese lives in Portland. His fiction and essays have appeared in publications including Tin House, New England Review, Matter, and in the book Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television.
Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland, and the author most recently of The Grail, about a year in an Oregon vineyard.
Debra Gwartney is a member of the nonfiction faculty at Portland State University and the managing editor of the book Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Her nonfiction work has appeared in such journals as Salon.com, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, and the Tampa Review.
Kelle X. Lawrence is a freelance writer who lives a cluttered life in northeast Portland surrounded by secondhand stuff. Her recent work appeared in Oregon Quarterly and is forthcoming in Metroscape.
Sona Pai is a freelance writer and editor in Portland.
Mary Rechner teaches fiction writing at Portland State University and is a "writer in the schools" for Literary Arts and Community of Writers. Her recent fiction appears in Washington Square and recent articles in Columbia Gorge Magazine.
Lex Runciman is the author of four college textbooks and three collections of poems, the most recent of which is Out of Town (Cloudbank Books, 2004). He teaches literature and creative writing at Linfield College.
Alice Tallmadge has been a media-phile since she was ten, when she spent late afternoons on the living room floor reading the newspaper, trying to understand the Civil Rights struggle and arguing with her father over who had dibs on the comics section. She is assistant editor of Forest Magazine and does freelance writing from her home in Springfield.
Published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Oregon Humanities.
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