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Call for Papers: Studies in the History of the English Language Returns to the UW 20 Years Later
The Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) meeting returns to the University of Washington campus for the first time in 20 years. SHEL has been meeting biennially for two decades; it is the preeminent gathering in North...Read More >
Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, History
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Join a Graduate Research Cluster: Fall 2021 Events and Calls for Papers
The Graduate Research Clusters (GRCs) here at the Simpson Center have a variety of exciting events, meet and greets, and calls for papers in Fall 2021. The range of topics and forms promises to set up the full year for...Read More >
Higher Education, Prison Studies, Literary Studies, Race
Jessica Bachman smiling at the camera in a black shirt and short hair with blurred background
How High School Students are Changing Washington State Community Colleges
Washington State promises high school students who chose to enroll in community colleges as part of its popular Running Start program a “true college experience.” According to the program’s fact sheet, issued by the State Board for Community and Technical...Read More >
Community Colleges
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Open to New Members: Building Community
We are excited to invite new and returning participants to our writing group for trans scholars at UW! Come join our tri-campus online writing group for trans faculty, staff, and graduate students who work across the University of Washington system...Read More >
Trans Studies, Higher Education, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Black and white images of Rebecca Taylor and Joe Wilson.
How We Communicate Our Values
As former English instructors in overseas contexts ranging from Indonesia to Kazakhstan, both of us have cultivated experiences working with multilingual students who want to leverage their diverse linguistic repertoires to engage new publics. This shared investment has motivated our...Read More >
Transfer Students, Pedagogy, Composition Studies
Maral Atayeva (top left), Jessica Bachman (top right), Katia Chaterji (bottom left), and Yara Musad (bottom right)
Perspectives from Two International Students at Shoreline Community College
Mellon Fellows chat with two Shoreline Community College international students about being part of the school's groundbreaking #youarwelcomehere scholarship program.Read More >
Community Colleges, Race, COVID-19, Immigration
Color image of Anna Bates.
Talking About It
As one of the Mellon Fellows for Reaching New Publics, I’ve been researching the experience of UW graduate students in the humanities who chose to teach at two-year institutions during their graduate studies. My fellow cohort member, Joe Wilson, has...Read More >
Transfer Students, Graduate Education, Pedagogy
Katia Chaterji
Striving for Interdisciplinarity
A few years ago, dance scholar Dr. Ratna Roy (Ratna mashi, as I called her in dance practice) told me that she was co-teaching a class with a brain scientist at Evergreen College, and I swallowed my gulp of water...Read More >
Pedagogy, Community Colleges
Portrait of James Tweedie
James Tweedie Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
James Tweedie (Professor, Cinema & Media Studies) has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on artificial settings designed and constructed in the classical Hollywood studios.Read More >
Cinema, Awards
Rebecca Taylor
Embracing and Equipping Transfer Students at the University of Washington
Choosing to transfer along whatever pathway, though, appears to be the easiest part of transferring to the University of Washington. Indeed, all of the transfer students I interviewed reported some degree of confusion about at least one aspect of the...Read More >
Undergraduate Education, Pedagogy
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2021-2022 Fellowships
The Simpson Center for the Humanities announces our fellowship awards for 2021-2022 after receiving many strong proposals from University of Washington faculty and graduate students during our most recent fall funding round. We expect to make an announcement about our...Read More >
Awards, Barclay Simpson Award
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"Art at the Borders of the Political" Features Visiting Anthropologist & Filmmaker Patricia Alvarez Astacio
Art at the Borders' next guest, Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Brandeis University) will be offering two events open to the public. The first is a screening & discussion, and the second a visual Anthropology workshop. Read more about these upcoming events...Read More >
American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture, Latin America, Postcolonialism