Jane Wong , a doctoral candidate in English, has a new book, a poetry prize, and a teaching position that testify to her overlapping roles as poet and scholar. Jane joined Pacific Lutheran University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in...
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded nearly $180,000 for a new summer institute on the urban environment at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. The institute, City/Nature: Urban Environmental Humanities , examines how...
Monica De La Torre (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Media & Expressive Culture in Arizona State University’s School of Transborder Studies following the completion of her PhD this spring.
AmazonCrossing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, has quickly become one of the most influential forces in translated literature, publishing more books in English translation than any other publisher in 2014.
Angela Durán Real (Spanish & Portuguese) has conducted an innovative survey on attitudes toward study-abroad programs at South Seattle College. She worked with Asha Esterberg Tran , her faculty mentor at South Seattle, with whom she was paired through the...
Two Simpson Center collaborators have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim Foundation fellowships, which will allow them to pursue creative and scholarly projects over the coming year. Katharyne Mitchell (Geography) has received a fellowship for her research on sanctuary practices for asylum...
Historian Stephanie Coontz challenges young scholars to explain their work to an audience more demanding than dissertation advisers or hiring committees: a 13-year-old niece or nephew.
Michael Blake (Philosophy and the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance) has been awarded a summer fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study justice, migration, and mercy. The $6,000 award supports his book-length study on the...
Tad Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Washington, wrote a script to pull every image tagged with “#AR15” on Instagram. He then arranged the images in a digital mosaic titled “A Well-Regulated Militia,” first displayed at...
Longtime Simpson Center collaborator Vicente L. Rafael (History) has published a new book with Duke University Press, Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation (2016).
