The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Electronic Literature Organization a Digital Humanities Start Up Grant for $52,003 for an innovative historical effort involving the first generation of modern digital writing.
The Pathfinders project, proposed by Dene Grigar, associate professor and director of the creative media and digital culture program at Washington State University Vancouver, and Stuart Moulthrop, professor in the department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will build an archive of readings in which the authors and volunteer readers explore the textual possibilities of early digital texts. Readings will be carried out on the early computer systems for which the works were originally intended.
Recorded sessions will be made available through the Electronic Literature Database, and will also form the basis for multimedia presentations developed by the investigators and other colleagues. Using innovative software such as Scalar, a free, open-source authoring and publishing platform, these publications will explore strategies for representing and preserving computer-mediated writing.
Among the works chosen...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Washington State University Vancouver announced today that Jane Lanigan, associate professor of human development, is 2013 recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence. The award is WSU Vancouver’s highest research honor.

For his keynote talk, "Program or Be Programmed: Play, Participation and Power in the Digital Age," Rushkoff will discuss his premise that we must learn the...
VANCOUVER, Wash. – The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded Sue Peabody, professor of history at Washington State University Vancouver, a research fellowship to complete her book “Slavery and Emancipation in the Indian Ocean World: A Family Biography.” The $65,000 ACLS fellowship will allow Peabody to write during her 2013-2014 sabbatical leave.
McKenna Smith (pictured right, top) is a senior at Camas High School. She has been on the yearbook staff since her sophomore year and is editor-in-chief this year. McKenna has been a teen volunteer and mentor at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington for two years and regularly babysits for four families. She plans to study nursing at WSU and become...