Literary Studies

Projects

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Modernist Studies

19th Century, 20th Century, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, History, Literary Studies
Topographic representations of where different emotions are experienced in the human body

Reading and Writing Affect

Affect Studies, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Sociology
Illustration of a family tree of "Old Word Language Families"

Studies in the History of the English Language Conference

Language and Literature, Linguistics, Literary Studies
Illustration of continents made out of books

Global Literary Studies

Language and Literature, Linguistics, Literary Studies
Stacks of books at a book fair

Teaching World Literature

Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy
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Histories and Futures of the Book

Digital Humanities, Literary Studies
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An Integrated Graduate and Undergraduate Curriculum in Digital Textual Studies

Digital Humanities, Language and Literature, Literary Studies
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Histories and Futures of Publication

Digital Humanities, Literary Studies, Public Scholarship
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ASAP/14 Arts of Fugitivity

Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Research, Literary Studies, Performance Studies

Articles

Reactor at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, courtesy TRIDEC.

A Journey to the Center of the Anthropocene

Anthropocene, Environment, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
The Corpus Museum in Oegstgeest, the Netherlands, a serendipitous discovery on Google (Wikimedia).

In Defense of the Search Engine

Digital Humanities, Literary Studies, Language and Literature
Covers of books from Kindle Direct Publishing.

How the Age of Amazon Is Reshaping Literary History

Language and Literature, Literary Studies
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano

Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano Joins University of Pennsylvania as Assistant Professor of History

UW Faculty, Middle East, Literary Studies
Cover of the September 2016 issue of Modern Language Quarterly, volume 77, number 3

MLQ Issue Highlights New and Digital Approaches to Literary History

Literary Studies, Language and Literature
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De-Carbonizing Academic Conferencing

Environmental Humanities, 19th Century, Literary Studies, Language and Literature, Environment
Illustration of the main characters from the novel Little Women

Lots of Love for Little Women

Language and Literature, Literary Studies, 19th Century
Graduate students in a conference room talking

Join a Graduate Research Cluster: Fall 2021 Events and Calls for Papers

Higher Education, Prison Studies, Literary Studies, Race
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Nov. 19 Roundtable: Does Global Literary Studies Have an Agenda for Translation Studies?

Globalization, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Literary Studies, Language and Literature

Katz Lectures

Ato Quayson in a blue suit, orange scarf, smiling at the camera with arms folded.

Disputatiousness and Unruly Affective Economies: From the Greeks to Chinua Achebe

Literary Studies, Africa Studies, Cosmopolitanism, Postcolonialism
David Shields

The Novel Is Dead; Long Live the Anti-Novel

Literary Studies, Language and Literature
Thomas Lockwood

Is Eating Babies Really So Terrible? The Dark Genius of Jonathan Swift

Language and Literature, Literary Studies
Derek Attridge

Reading and Responsibility

Literary Studies
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How to Write a DEI Statement in Only 50 Years

American Ethnic Studies, Literary Studies, Higher Education, Asian American, Identity and Culture

People

Rachel Arteaga smiling at the camera in a grey sweater, arms folded.

Rachel Arteaga

Rachel Arteaga is Associate Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Community Colleges, Doctoral Education, Higher Education, Literary Studies, Public Scholarship
Denise Grollmus

Denise Grollmus (she/ella)

Denise Grollmus is a writer, scholar, teacher, web designer, and translator who was the Simpson Center's Communications Manager from 2018-2020. 

Affect Studies, Community Colleges, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship, Race, Religion, Translation Studies, Visual Culture
Jose Alaniz

José Alaniz (he/him/his)

José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and an adjunct in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, has published the monographs Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010); Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Si

Cinema, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies, Environment, Language and Literature, Latinx, Literary Studies, Slavic Studies, Visual Culture
Caitlin Palo in a navy top and hair down, smiling at the camera

Caitlin Palo

Caitlin Palo’s research and cultural interests include literature, poetry & poetics, translation, history of language and writing, constructions of the public sphere (imagined and political), and social movement history.

18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Communication, Literary Studies, Translation Studies, Writing Studies
Davinder Bhowmik stands outside wearing a green scarf and patterned shirt.

Davinder Bhowmik (she/her/hers)

20th Century, 21st Century, Japan, Literary Studies
Christopher Teuton sits in front of a bookcase wearing a maroon shirt.

Christopher Teuton (he/him/his)

Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation) is Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington-Seattle.

American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Literary Studies
Yomi Braester wears a black jacket in front of a white wall.

Yomi Braester (he/him/his)

Yomi Braester's research focuses on literary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan—in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts. He inquires how texts and images form and manipulate our perception of space and history.

Architecture, Cultural Studies, East Asia, Literary Studies, Visual Culture
Portrait of Habiba Ibrahim

Habiba Ibrahim (she/her/hers)

I am an Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle. My scholarship is in African American Literary Studies of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Identity and Culture, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Race
Portrait of Brian Reed

Brian Reed (he/him/his)

I am the Divisional Dean of Humanities and the Milliman Endowed Chair of Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.

20th Century, 21st Century, Art History, Humanities, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Poetry, Translation Studies
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Caitlin Postal (she/her/hers)

Caitlin Postal earned her doctorate from the Department of English in 2022, where she studied Middle English literature and medieval material culture.

14th Century, Art History, Digital Humanities, History, Humanities, Literary Studies, Medieval
A close up portrait of Céline Maillard wearing a hat and red scarf.

Céline Maillard (she/her/hers)

Céline Maillard was a 2018 Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics.

19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies
Kaelie Giffel stands in front of water wearing a dark coat and glasses.

Kaelie Giffel (she/her/hers)

Kaelie Giffel was a 2019 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics with Ca

20th Century, 21st Century, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies
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Matthew Childs (he/him/his)

Matthew Childs is a doctoral candidate in the Department of German Studies. He joined the department in 2015 after receiving his M.A. in German and B.A. in German and Classical Civilizations at Florida State University.

19th Century, German Studies, History, Humanities, Literary Studies
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Diana Molkova (she/her/hers)

Diana Molkova was a 2022-23 Society of Scholars Summer Dissertation Fellow.

Classics, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies
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Caleb Knapp (he/him/his)

Caleb holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature and culture, sexual violence, and the history of slavery in the United States.

American Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Prison Studies
Laura Gehrke stands outside wearing a blue collared shirt and plaid jacket.

Laura Gehrke (she/her/hers)

Laura Gehrke (née Griffith) studies religion and feminism in Victorian novels. Her doctoral dissertation is on women's religious lives in the novels of George Eliot and Charlotte Mary Yonge. She has also worked on Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and R.D. Blackmore.

18th Century, 19th Century, Feminisms, Literary Studies
Portrait of Gillian Harkins sitting in front of a bookcase.

Gillian Harkins (she/her/hers)

20th Century, 21st Century, American Studies, Feminisms, Literary Studies
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Kelly Clemen (she/they)

Kelly Clemen is constantly dreaming of other worlds, if not reading, watching, writing, or trying to live them out in the world.

Feminisms, Humanities, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Public Scholarship