IAS News

At the Club Council Recognition Banquet this month, Amaranth Borsuk received the Club Advisor of the Year award for her work with students on Clamor, UWB's undergraduate Literary and Arts journal. Asked about the award, Amaranth replied: "Working with students on Clamor this year has been a great gift. We've had an exceptional board of editors who are passionate about the work they want to see in the world. I am grateful to them for nominating me and to Club Council for this recognition of all the labor and the love that goes into Clamor." 

IAS faculty Julie Shayne presented her new book Taking Risks: Feminist Activism and Research in the Americas at Seattle University.

This Spring Quarter, Alka Kurian gave four talks at different universities across the continent.  On March 7, 2015, she spoke on "Rape as Punishment" at the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Amaranth Borsuk attended the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Minneapolis, where she presented work on two panels. For "The Essay Blinks," she delivered a cautionary manifesto on the interrelation of form and content in the artist's book, which included an homage to Alison Knowles and James Tenney's 1967 computer-generated poem "House of Dust" titled "Book of Dust."

Amaranth Borsuk has published a poetics essay on "The Aesthetics and Poetics of Deletionism" together with collaborators Jesper Juul and Nick Montfort in Media-N, the journal of the new media caucus and presents work at annual AWP conference.