June 2021

Amadanyo Oguara has published his third book, Danku of Nembe Kingdom. Oguara is an alum of the M.A. in Cultural Studies program and published his first two books, Fisherman’s Son and Asanda of Agirisaba, in 2020. Danku of Nembe Kingdom narrates a ...

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen and MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics alum Scott Bentley’s work has been included in the Submergence: Going Below the Surface with Orca and Salmon Exhibition, an innovative, multi-media ...

Jung Lee, IAS Assistant Director of Academic Services, has received an IAS Staff Recognition Award. Jung is recognized for her extraordinary and skillful work prior to and during the pandemic to manage course scheduling for IAS. The dedication, compassion, and ...

MFA alum Denise Calvetti Michaels' newest book, The Things Downriver (Cave Moon Press, 2020), is comprised of lyric passages focused on interludes of summer on the farm in Salinas, California, home of her paternal grandparents, Agostina & Ercole Bianco.   

“During this period of childhood, my brother and I explored the boundaries of the farm and steeped ourselves within diverse cultural exchanges among neighbors, family and friends,” said Michaels.

IAS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung published a coauthored article, “Crowdfunding as a response to COVID-19: Increasing inequities at a time of crisis,” in Social Science & Medicine. This collaborative study offers a systematic examination of the scope and impacts of COVID-19 related crowdfunding use and outcomes, using data collected from all US-based GoFundMe campaigns mentioning COVID or ...