News from the School of IAS
Yolanda Padilla presents on “Latinx Modernist Field Imaginaries”
IAS faculty member Yolanda Padilla presented her work on a panel titled "Latinx Modernist Field Imaginaries" at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Columbus, Ohio. The panel explored Latinx modernisms as a set of challenges both to modernist studies broadly construed and to Latinx studies internally. Padilla argued for the importance of the Spanish-language press in ...
November 14, 2018
Kristin Gustafson publishes tribute to Dr. Hazel-Dicken Garcia
IAS faculty member Kristin Gustafson‘s newest column pays tribute to the mentoring and legacy of her master’s adviser, Dr. Hazel-Dicken Garcia. The piece, “Hazel Dicken-Garcia Continues to Give to Her Students,” is published in Clio: Among the Media. In it, Gustafson reflects on four things: the community Dicken-Garcia created, how Dicken-Garcia shaped Gustafson’s path as a scholar, the meaning of physical things Dicken-Garcia passed on, and the reach of Dicken-Garcia’s financial gift to the Division. Gustafson publishes the column as ...
November 7, 2018
Alumni Smith and Bolinger share career journeys with students
This fall IAS alumni Markus Smith and Kelsey Bolinger met with students in IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson’s Capstone Portfolio course to share their career pathways. Smith is a Human Resources (HR) Recruiter for SNBL USA, a local biotechnology firm. While a student at UW Bothell, Markus worked as an assistant career advisor in Career Services and as ...
November 2, 2018
Margaret H. Redsteer selected as one of the 125 Extraordinary Ordinary Women of Montana State University
IAS faculty member Margaret H. Redsteer has been selected as one of the 125 Extraordinary Ordinary Women of Montana State University. In celebrating Montana State University’s 125th anniversary, the President’s Commission on the Status of University is honoring women leaders, problem solvers and innovators from today and throughout MSU’s history. The 125 honorees were ...
November 2, 2018
Masahiro Sugano’s Short Film on Climate Justice Screens at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
On September 29, 2018 the largest exhibition of arts and culture of Oceania opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, featuring IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano’s short film, “Tell Them.” Originally filmed live at the Southbank Centre as part of the Cultural Olympiad London 2012 showcase, the spoken word film features poet and climate justice activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands. ...
October 31, 2018
Two short films by Masahiro Sugano selected for the 2018 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Germany
Out of more than 1,200 entries from 87 countries, Berlin’s Literaturwerkstatt program commission selected two films by IAS faculty member Masahiro Sugano as part of the 2018 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in both Münster and Berlin.The festival ran from September 27th to 30th 2018. The two works screened were spoken word short films by powerful poet Tjawangwa “TJ” Dema of Botswana. Both “Dreams” and “Neon Poem” were featured in this year’s festival line up. Both videos were ...
October 31, 2018
Anida Yoeu Ali exhibits and performs an international year of loss with “In Memoriam: The Red Chador” in the US, Cambodia and Australia
Performance artist and IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali began 2018 without her trademark sequined “red chador” one-of-kind costume. In her latest interview with Crosscut, Ali discussed the disappearance of her garment and her desire to memorialize the work and create anew despite the loss. Ali’s costume was last seen in Tel Aviv, Israel as checked in luggage in December 2017. Months later, the luggage containing the original costume was never found nor returned. Slated for an exhibition titled “Then and Now” in May 2018 at the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, Ali decided ...
October 31, 2018
Alka Kurian on the MeToo movement in India
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian's interview on MeToo was published in Times of India. In the interview, she claims that with older women outing sexual abuse of decades ago, the MeToo movement in India has widened its base that was previously led by the country's young millennial cyberfeminists. Kurian was also ...
October 30, 2018
Curtis Takahashi joins UW Bothell to lead new Professional Experience Program
An ardent champion of UW Bothell, alum Curtis Takahashi is taking his support to a new level. The IAS graduate was recently hired as the campus’s new Professional Experience Program Advisor. This program will create opportunities for UW Bothell students to gain intensive and immersive work experience during their final years of study, along with professional development to be successful in the workplace. Takahashi will focus on employer outreach and engagement, advising students on internship opportunities and professional development, and managing the program implementation, growth, and ...
October 25, 2018
Nicole McCarthy selected as 2018 GAP Award recipient by Artist Trust
IAS Alum Nicole McCarthy has received GAP Award funding from Artist Trust to begin her second hybrid book focusing on marriage, divorce, and shame. She will spend a week on a writing retreat to generate new material and the project will culminate with a public divorce performance in spring 2019. An MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics alum ...
October 23, 2018