Eric Ames, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, has published a new book on the Werner Herzog film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). His book, by the same name, is part of the Film Classics Series...
Mellon Fellows are actively rewriting the narrative of success in humanities doctoral education. At the UW, departments are turning toward this same goal.
"Phillip Thurtle, a University of Washington historian asks: Why don’t humans have wings? In his work, Thurtle guides us through the history of science and the rise of modern genetics, with a left turn through the arts, emerging with compelling...
Michael Aguirre (History) and Angela Durán Real (Spanish & Portuguese Studies) have received public engagement fellowships from Imagining America, and Elyse Gordon (Geography), a previous fellow, serves as a co-director of the PAGE initiative.
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 September...
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 Western...
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 Simpson...
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.
