News from the School of IAS
MFA alum Cliff Watson Publishes New Media Work
Cliff Watson (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, '21) recently published the piece Storage closet in Finnish web journal Nokturno, a longstanding venue for digital, experimental and cross-disciplinary literature. Watson's video artwork includes a virtual and augmented-reality rendering of a scene from his MFA thesis manuscript, 6-foot Pine, a work of hybrid dramaturgy that tells the love story of ...
January 3, 2022
Rebecca Brown publishes You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown‘s new book, You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe, will be published in March 2022 by Chatwin. From the publsiher's site: "In her new nonfiction work..."
December 30, 2021
Jennifer Atkinson and Dave Stokes teach first class at new Environmental Education and Research Center
IAS faculty members Jennifer Atkinson and Dave Stokes taught UW Bothell's first class at the new Environmental Education and Research Center (EERC) at St. Edward State Park. "Our Home in the Forest," a Discovery Core class co-taught by Atkinson and Stokes, stretches the boundaries of what constitutes a classroom.
December 28, 2021
Alka Kurian researches in Morocco on a Fulbright US Scholar award
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian spent five months (July – November 2021) as a Fulbright US Scholar in Morocco to conduct research on digital feminism in the country. She was associated with the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Fes and carried out several activities that included ...
December 27, 2021
Santiago Lopez receives Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellowship for work on a Geospatial Hub Project
IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez has received a 2022-23 Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellowship. The DSF Fellowship supports faculty in developing and implementing a digital scholarship project over the course of the 2021-2022 academic year with support from the Library's Head of Digital Scholarship and Library staff. ...
December 23, 2021
Santiago Lopez receives COIL Fellowship for work on Remote Sensing course development
IAS faculty member Santiago Lopez has received a 2022-23 Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Fellowship. The COIL Fellowship supports faculty in developing and implementing COIL modules in their courses with structured training, a community of practice and a stipend. Lopez will develop ...
December 21, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk interviewed for WYBC Yale University Radio
IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk recently spoke with artist and educator Brainard Carey for Yale University Radio. She read new poems and discussed motherhood, the pandemic, and the importance of performance to her practice. Carey interviews ...
December 16, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes collaborative poetics in Periodicities Journal
To accompany their new chapbook, W/\SH: Initial Contact from Above/Ground Press, Amaranth Borsuk and Terri Witek have published "To the Rider: A Double-Tongued Response" in webjournal Periodicities. This poetics statement includes process media and documentation of their collaboration W/\SH ...
December 16, 2021
Maryam Griffin publishes Vehicles of Decolonization
IAS faculty member Maryam Griffin has published a new book, Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank, as part of Temple University Press's Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality series.
December 15, 2021
Ron Krabill: Human Rights Public Culture
In IAS faculty member Ron Krabill's course, Media Studies: Human Rights Public Culture, students gain the knowledge needed to intervene in human rights violations. “We often think that no one is against human rights, but someone is. Otherwise, they wouldn’t continue to be violated,” notes Krabill. “This course is about identifying the stakeholders who benefit from the perpetuated harm and figuring out how to use media to intervene.”
December 14, 2021