News and Events

April is National Poetry Month! Come hear some of Lewis & Clark’s Senior poetry students read from their portfolios.

Mossy Log editors from three eras took part in NPR’s Next Generation Radio Project, a weeklong digital journalism training program that empowers participants to produce their own multimedia stories.

Congratulations to Reiko Hillyer whose book A WALL IS JUST A WALL: THE PERMEABILITY OF THE PRISON IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES (Duke University Press, 2024) is a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards in the category of General Nonfiction.

Congratulations to Marly Williams (BA’14) whose book NIGHT MOTHER: A PERSONAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EXORCIST (Mad Creek Books/ Ohio State University Press, 2023) is a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards in the category of Creative Nonfiction.

Arts@LC’s Fall 2024 Newsletter is out! Read on for more information (and pretty photos!) from the fall to see how Arts@LC “connects and amplifies the fine arts at Lewis & Clark: Music, Theatre, Dance, Art and Creative Writing.” 

According to the 2025 Niche college rankings, Lewis & Clark is one of the best liberal arts colleges in Oregon as well as one of the state’s top performers in academics, student life, English, and history.

The Lewis & Clark College English Department is pleased to announce this year’s application process for the Dixon Award. Through the efforts of two of our alumni, Hillary and Adam Dixon, this $2,500.00 award was established in 2002 by the Dixon Family Foundation. It is given to one junior English major each year.

Please save the dates, spread the word, and join the LC English Department in welcoming these five fine writers to our 2024-25 Visiting Writing Series. Bios and links to more author information below.

All five events will be held in Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall at 6pm.

February 15, 2024 (Portland, Oregon)—Palatine Hill Review from Lewis & Clark College, has been recognized as a REALM First Class magazine for the 50th Anniversary Edition, “growing pains” by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Palatine Hill Review, “growing pains”, Volume 50 Student Editors: Jillian Jackson, AJ Di Nicola, Elizabeth Huntley, Zach Reinker, Max Allen, Burton Scheer

Four Commemorative Cover Artists: Anneka Barton, Dakota Binder, Zach Reinker, Kincaid DeBell

Faculty Advisors: Karen Gross, Mary Szybist

Staff Advisor: Amy Baskin

Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor with Term Michael Mirabile on the upcoming publication of his latest book, “Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s” (Berghahn, February 2, 2024).  

On Monday, March 11th, Michael Mirabile will discuss “Edges of Noir” with Jerry Harp, starting at 3:30pm in Miller Hall, Room 102. The event is open to the public.

The LC English Department is excited to learn that Marly Williams (BA ’14) recently published an essay collection entitled Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist(Ohio State University Press, Oct. 2023). 

To foster a greater sense of belonging among first-year students, L&C’s Center for Community and Global Health is partnering with Write Around Portland to offer a series of writing workshops.

The LC English Department is excited to learn that Creative Writing Professor Pauls Toutonghi’s latest novel, The Refugee Ocean (Simon & Schuster, October 10, 2023) has been selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick of the Month!
Per B&N, “With two plots that jump around time and place, and characters that are immediate and real, The Refugee Ocean is as masterfully told as it is emotionally satisfying. It grapples with complex topics that will leave the reader deep in thought, contemplating long after that final page.”

Pauls will also be in conversation with Jon Raymond on Sunday, October 15th at Powell’s City of Books.