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Simpson Center director Kathleen Woodward writes about David Quammen’s book Spillover for an informed and compelling perspective on COVID-19.

The Simpson Center for the Humanities welcomes visiting scholar Sabina Vaught, who is currently in residence through June 2020. Vaught is working on a book project tentatively entitled, Vanishment: Disappearance as Gendered Punishment. This project continues the ethnographic study of...

On January 31, the University of Washington announced that its three campuses in Seattle, Bothell and Tacoma received the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, an elective designation that indicates institutional commitment to community engagement.

Professor Heidi Pauwels (Asian Languages & Literature) was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to work on her book, The Voice of India’s 18th-Century Mona Lisa: Songs by Rasik Bihari of Kishangarh. Pauwel’s project explores the poetry...

Congratulations to UW Professor Naomi Sokoloff (NELC/Comparative Literature), who, along with Washington University in St. Louis Professor Nancy Berg (Hebrew/Comparative Literature), won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award for their co-edited collection, What We Talk about When We Talk about...

As part of its fall events featuring researchers, activists, and artists whose practices and work are connected to translation, the Translation Studies Hub hosted a two-part talk on Nov. 22, 2019. Profs. José Alaniz (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)...

In 2016, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced a new program directed at change in doctoral education. The projects to be funded by Next Generation Humanities PhD grants would bring humanities PhD programs into alignment with a true diversity...

This summer, the University of Washington was one of two schools, along with the University of Massachusetts, to host the pilot program of the Mellon Foundation-funded MLA Teaching Institute, aimed at strengthening the teaching of English at access-oriented institutions through...

In anticipation of winter break, we asked Simpson Center-affiliated scholars and staff what books they’re excited to dig into once the end-of-the-quarter frenzy has wound down.

Fifty-six people got up on a Saturday morning to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The event was March Madness, hosted by the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Graduate Research Cluster and held in the Research Commons...

In mid-November, the Simpson Center sent three of its past fellows in digital humanities and public scholarship to the National Humanities Conference in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Their panel, “Digital Public Humanities: Navigating Community and Identity in the 21st Century,” was designed...

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literature Justin Jesty, whose book, Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan (Cornell), was recently awarded the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present's 2019 Book Prize. Art and Engagement...