October 2015

MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics hosted the fourth annual Fall Convergence October 1-2. This year’s program featured an opening keynote reading + conversation with award-winning poet, novelist, and critic Nathaniel Mackey.  The multi-day program of...

IAS faculty member David Nixon's animated musical documentary "Bladfold:The Story of Brad Nixon" won the Best Musical Film award at the 2015 Oregon Independent Film Festival. 

IAS faculty members Kristy Leissle and David Nixon published the third volume of The Monolith: Science Fiction Short Stories, subtitled What's In My Head. UWB students in Nixon and Leissle's Discovery Core 1 class, "Thinking Beyond Borders: Philosophical Explorations of Science Fiction," author all the stories in the collection.

Miriam Bartha, IAS Director of Graduate Programs and affiliate faculty member, has published a post-publication essay on “Skill” in the second edition of Keywords for American Cultural Studies, a print-digital publication of New York University Press edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. 

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson has published "Multi-Sensory Experience and Environmental Encounter: Rethinking the Sustainability of Humanities Education" in Interdisciplinary Environmental Review's Special Issue on Environmental Justice and Sustainability.