News from School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Becca Price Interviewed in Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Faculty member Becca Price joins host Bonni Stachowiak once again as a guest on the podcast Teaching in Higher Ed. This episode is called “How to develop ourselves and others through classroom observations,” and Price discusses how much instructors can learn from watching each other teach. Her expertise in this topic grew from her work as Executive Director of the...
June 29, 2023
MFA alumni Amy Hirayama and Emily Mundy teach workshops in somatic exploration
MFA alumni Emily Mundy (MFA '22) and Amy Hirayama (MFA '22) brought together attendees of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Seattle to explore writing as an embodied process.
June 29, 2023
Amaranth Borsuk publishes poems in Colorado Review
The summer 2023 issue of Colorado Review includes a folio from Amaranth Borsuk’s collaboration with Terri Witek, W/\SH, including visual poems, prose poems, epistles, and art. The pieces are part of a larger speculative poetry manuscript that envisions a correspondence between women of two worlds, one of drought and fire, the other rain and flood....
June 29, 2023
MFA Alum Eric Acosta and Amy Hirayama organize Altar/Alter Event in Seattle
MFA alumni Eric Acosta (MFA ‘20) and Amy Hirayama (MFA ‘22), in collaboration with experimental writer and poet Greg Bem and poet/artist/musician Denny Stern, recently co-curated the week-long community event Altar / Alter which took place June 8-16 at The Cherry Pit in Seattle’s Central District. Altar / Alter was an installation and performance series...
June 29, 2023
Joe Ferrare publishes article on charter school authorizers
Joe Ferrare, associate professor in IAS, recently published an article that examines variation in charter school outcomes across different types of authorizers.
June 26, 2023
Celebrating Three Years of Imagining Trans Futures
The Imagining Trans Futures crossdisciplinary research cluster, organized by UW Bothell faculty members Ching-In Chen and Neil Simpkins, celebrated and closed out three years of programming with a showcase featuring seven members of the cluster.
June 22, 2023
MFA Alum Troy Landrum Jr. Selected as Wa Na Wari Fellow
Troy Landrum Jr. (MFA ‘21) joins the 2023 cohort of The Seattle Black Spatial Histories Institute, a community story training program that brings together community-based projects with Black oral historians from around the country “to learn and explore the ethics, techniques, best practices, tensions, and dilemmas of community-based oral history and Black memory work.”
June 22, 2023
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies has a major presence at the Student Academic Showcase!
Friday June 2 was UWB’s inaugural Student Academic Showcase, led in part by Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty co-coordinator Dr. Alka Kurian.
June 8, 2023
Jin-Kyu Jung coauthors “(Un)Mapping the Digital Landscape of Medical Crowdfunding”
AS faculty member Jin-Kyu Jung has published a coauthored article, “(Un)Mapping the Digital Landscape of Medical Crowdfunding: A Critical and Creative Geovisualization Pedagogy for Public Engagement in Livingmaps Review.
May 30, 2023
Julie Shayne and Denise Hattwig launch the Feminist Digital Center
After two years of work and two Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellows (DSFF) grants from the Library, the Feminist Digital Center is finally live!
May 30, 2023