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Affect Studies

Projects

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Feminist Writing

Affect Studies, Cultural Studies, Doctoral Education, Feminisms, Higher Education
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HAPTICS Study Group

Affect Studies, Music, Performance Studies, Performing Arts, Visual Culture
Topographic representations of where different emotions are experienced in the human body

Reading and Writing Affect

Affect Studies, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Sociology
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Affect & Audience in the Digital Age

Affect Studies, Digital Humanities, Poetry
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Study of Emotions and Affect

Affect Studies, History of Emotions, Interdisciplinary Research
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Feminist Writing

Affect Studies, Cultural Studies, Doctoral Education, Feminisms, Higher Education
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Feminist Writing

Affect Studies, Cultural Studies, Doctoral Education, Feminisms, Higher Education
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Feminist Writing

Affect Studies, Cultural Studies, Doctoral Education, Feminisms
Photo of the 1913 painting by Wassily Kandinsky named Small Pleasures, with abstract use of color and lines.

The Study of Emotions

Affect Studies, History of Emotions, Interdisciplinary Research
Photo of the 1913 painting by Wassily Kandinsky named Small Pleasures, with abstract use of color and lines.

The Study of Emotions

Affect Studies, History of Emotions, Interdisciplinary Research
Photo of the 1913 painting by Wassily Kandinsky named Small Pleasures, with abstract use of color and lines.

The Study of Emotions

Affect Studies, History of Emotions, Interdisciplinary Research
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Reading and Writing Affect

Affect Studies, Doctoral Education, Writing Studies

Articles

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We Wandered as a Cloud

Affect Studies, Poetry, Language and Literature

Katz Lectures

Lauren Berlant

On Humorlessness

Cultural Studies, Affect Studies

People

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
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Stephanie Clare (she/her/hers)

I work in feminist, queer, and critical race theory. At its broadest, my research considers twentieth and twenty-first century cultural and scientific representations of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity in the Anglophone and Francophone worlds.

Affect Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Humanities, Feminisms, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Race, Technology
Angela Durán Real holds a pink fan while standing in front of water.

Angela Durán Real (she/her/hers)

Angela Durán Real is a pre-doctoral instructor at the University of Washington, a co-director of PAGE, and a board member of the Imagining America National Advisory Board.

20th Century, 21st Century, Affect Studies, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature
Nathaniel Bond wears a blue collared shirt while sitting in a chair and looking into the camera.

Nathaniel Bond (he/him/his)

Nathaniel Bond's work lies in postwar Japanese literary dark humor. He is interested in those things that we laugh at despite ourselves, whether because of the setting or the material itself.

20th Century, 21st Century, Affect Studies, Asian Languages & Literature, Japan
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Candice Rai (she/her/hers)

Affect Studies, Composition Studies, Public Scholarship
Picture of Sarah Levin-Richardson standing in front of a beige wall wearing glasses, a blazer, and a black shirt.

Sarah Levin-Richardson (she/her/hers)

Sarah Levin-Richardson explores ancient Roman slavery and sexuality at the intersection of material culture and social history, with a 2019 book on Pompeii’s brothel (The Brothel of Pompeii: Sex, Class, and Gender at the Margins of Roman Society), and a new monograph project called T

Affect Studies, Classics, Creative Writing, History, Identity and Culture
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Megan Butler (she/her/hers)

Megan Butler is a fourth-year doctoral candidate and instructor whose interdisciplinary work bridges English, Humanitarianisms, and Medical Humanities.

Affect Studies, Humanitarianisms, Medical Sciences