News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Ching-In Chen: Poetry of Activism
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen attended the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Philadelphia last week. Chen presented work on the intersection of community organizing and poetry as part of the “Whenever the Wounds of Injustice are Salted We Will Gather: Poetry of Activism” ...
April 1, 2022
Rebecca Brown interviewed in BOMB Magazine
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown is interviewed in a piece entitiled "Working Beyond the End," published by BOMB Magazine. The interview cover's Brown's new book, You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe; themes that run through Brown's works, such as youth and innocence; Brown's treatment of characters; Brown's religious faith; and the need to have stories we can believe in. ...
March 28, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson featured in “Down with Doomscrolling”
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's teaching and research on mental health and climate change was featured in The Planet Magazine. The piece, titled Down with Doomscrolling, profiled young people and students in environmental fields who are struggling with emotional distress from engaging with difficult topics around ...
March 28, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson and Pulitzer-Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert speak about climate impacts
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson teamed up with Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction and Under a White Sky, to discuss solutions to our climate crisis, as well as reasons for hope as we face the challenges ahead. Their joint talk at the 2022 Environmental Summit was sponsored by The Delta College President’s Speaker Series, which invited Atkinson and Kolbert as keynote speakers. ...
March 23, 2022
Becca Price: “Reframing Educational Outcomes”
In collaboration with Sarita Shukla (School of Educational Studies), Elli Theobald (Department of Biology, UW Seattle), and Joel Abraham (CSU Fullerton), IAS faculty member Becca Price has published an essay about how to honor and build from the strengths that students bring into the classroom. “So much of traditional teaching,” Price says ...
March 16, 2022
Lauren Berliner: “Whatever Happened to Home Movies?”
IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner published the article, "Whatever Happened to Home Movies? Self-representation from Family Archives to Online Algorithms," in a special issue of Frames Cinema Journal titled "Sensing the Archive: Exploring The Digital (Im)materiality of the Moving Image Archive." In the article ...
March 15, 2022
Ching-In Chen: “Breaths for Seattle” commissioned for Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Breaths for Seattle” is a poem commissioned by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods for the Reimagine Seattle Storytelling Project, a public platform for community voices to help shape the conversation of ...
March 14, 2022
Julie Shayne presents two Pressbooks projects during Open Education (OE) Week
IAS faculty member Julie Shayne was an invited speaker, along with other UW instructors, on an Open Education Week panel called “Student Authored: UW Open Pedagogy & Publishing.” She discussed her two UW Pressbooks: Badass Womxn in the Pacific Northwest and ...
March 7, 2022
Jennifer Atkinson interviewed on “In this Climate” podcast
IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson is featured in a new season of the podcast "In this Climate," which was released in March. The first episode, Existential loneliness, the climate crisis, and intrinsic hope features an interview with Atkinson (who is currently writing a book on climate despair and hope) and Sarah Jaquette Ray ...
March 7, 2022
Wanda Gregory selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Roster
IAS faculty member Wanda Gregory was selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Program, which is designed to pair qualified U.S. academics and professionals with host institutions to work on a variety of projects and activities. Having worked in ...
February 28, 2022