Literary Studies

Projects

Image: "Unterwegs / On the Way" by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (2019, wall paint on concrete, Neukölln, Berlin). Part of a series of wall-writings created by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson in 2018 and 2019 in many public places in Berlin. The multilingual text reads in German: 'Immer noch unterwegs', in Yiddish: 'נאך אונטערוועגן', and in Arabic: 'مازلت في الطريق', which translates into English: 'still on the way'.

Articles

Reactor at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, courtesy TRIDEC.

A Journey to the Center of the Anthropocene

Anthropocene, Environment, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies

The Corpus Museum in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands, a serendipitous discovery on Google (Wikimedia).

In Defense of the Search Engine

Digital Humanities, Literary Studies, Language and Literature

Covers of books from Kindle Direct Publishing.

How the Age of Amazon Is Reshaping Literary History

Language and Literature, Literary Studies

Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano Joins University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Professor of History

UW Faculty, Middle East, Literary Studies

Cover of the September 2016 issue of Modern Language Quarterly, volume 77, number 3

MLQ Issue Highlights New and Digital Approaches to Literary History

Literary Studies, Language and Literature

De-Carbonizing Academic Conferencing

Environmental Humanities, 19th Century, Literary Studies, Language and Literature, Environment

Illustration of the main characters from the novel Little Women

Lots of Love for Little Women

Language and Literature, Literary Studies, 19th Century

Graduate students in a conference room talking

Join a Graduate Research Cluster: Fall 2021 Events and Calls for Papers

Higher Education, Prison Studies, Literary Studies, Race

Nov. 19 Roundtable: Does Global Literary Studies Have an Agenda for Translation Studies?

Globalization, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Literary Studies, Language and Literature

People

Rachel Arteaga smiling at the camera in a grey sweater, arms folded.

Rachel Arteaga is Associate Director of the Simpson Center and Associate Program Director for Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics, a public scholarship program generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Community Colleges, Doctoral Education, Graduate Education, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Public Scholarship, Race, Religion, Undergraduate Education

Denise Grollmus (she/ella)

Denise Grollmus is a writer, scholar, teacher, web designer, and translator who was the Simpson Center's Communications Manager from 2018-2020.

Affect Studies, Community Colleges, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Race, Religion, Translation Studies, Visual Culture

Portrait of José Alaniz in wintertime New York from 2018

José Alaniz (he/him/his)

José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle, has published two monographs, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) and Death,

Cinema, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies, Environment, Language and Literature, Latinx, Literary Studies, Slavic Studies, Visual Culture

Caitlin Palo

As Program and Events Manager, Caitlin Palo works with faculty to coordinate the material and logistical needs for bringing together scholars from on and off-campus.

18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Communication, Literary Studies, Translation Studies, Writing Studies

Davinder Bhowmik stands outside wearing a green scarf and patterned shirt.

Davinder Bhowmik (she/her/hers)

20th Century, 21st Century, Japan, Literary Studies

Christopher Teuton sits in front of a bookcase wearing a maroon shirt.

Christopher Teuton (he/him/his)

Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation) is Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington-Seattle.

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Literary Studies

Yomi Braester wears a black jacket in front of a white wall.

Yomi Braester (he/him/his)

Yomi Braester's research focuses on literary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan—in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts. He inquires how texts and images form and manipulate our perception of space and history.

Architecture, Cultural Studies, East Asia, Literary Studies, Visual Culture

Habiba Ibrahim (she/her/hers)

I am an Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. My scholarship is in African American Literary Studies of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Identity and Culture, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Race

Brian Reed (he/him/his)

I am the Divisional Dean of Humanities and the Milliman Endowed Chair of Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Humanities, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Poetry, Translation Studies

Caitlin looking sideways at the camera. She has long red hair and is wearing a white t-shirt

Caitlin Postal (she/her/hers)

Caitlin Postal earned her doctorate from the Department of English in 2022, where she studied Middle English literature and medieval material culture.

14th Century, Art History, Digital Humanities, History, Humanities, Literary Studies, Medieval

A close up portrait of Céline Maillard wearing a hat and red scarf.

Céline Maillard (she/her/hers)

Céline Maillard was a 2018 Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics.

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies

Kaelie Giffel stands in front of water wearing a dark coat and glasses.

Kaelie Giffel (she/her/hers)

Kaelie Giffel was a 2019 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics with Caitlin

20th Century, 21st Century, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies

Matthew Childs sits outside on a hill overlooking a body of water.

Matthew Childs (he/him/his)

Matthew Childs is a doctoral candidate in the Department of German Studies. He joined the department in 2015 after receiving his M.A. in German and B.A. in German and Classical Civilizations at Florida State University.

19th Century, German Studies, History, Humanities, Literary Studies

Diana Molkova stands facing the right while looking into the camera and holds a huge fuzzy dog.

Diana Molkova (she/her/hers)

Diana Molkova was a 2022-23 Society of Scholars Summer Dissertation Fellow.

Classics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies

Caleb Knapp wearing blue oxford shirt and burnt orange sweater poses in front of bookshelf for portrait

Caleb Knapp (he/him/his)

Caleb holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature and culture, sexual violence, and the history of slavery in the United States.

American Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Prison Studies

Laura Gehrke stands outside wearing a blue collared shirt and plaid jacket.

Laura Gehrke (she/her/hers)

Laura Gehrke (née Griffith) studies religion and feminism in Victorian novels. Her doctoral dissertation is on women's religious lives in the novels of George Eliot and Charlotte Mary Yonge. She has also worked on Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and R.D. Blackmore.

18th Century, 19th Century, Feminisms, Literary Studies

Portrait of Gillian Harkins sitting in front of a bookcase.

Gillian Harkins (she/her/hers)

20th Century, 21st Century, American Studies, Feminisms, Literary Studies

Kelly Clemen (she/they)

Kelly Clemen is constantly dreaming of other worlds, if not reading, watching, writing, or trying to live them out in the world.

Feminisms, Humanities, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship

Projects

Articles

Katz Lectures

People