UW Translation Studies Hub: Teaching Translation Across the Disciplines
Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy, Translation Studies
Interdisciplinary Translation Studies
Communication, Cultural Studies, International Relations, Language and Literature, Translation Studies
Studies in the History of the English Language Conference
Language and Literature, Linguistics, Literary Studies
Global Literary Studies
29th Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics Annual Meeting
Language and Literature, Linguistics, Slavic Studies
International Comic Arts Forum
Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature
Teaching World Literature
Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Pedagogy
An Integrated Graduate and Undergraduate Curriculum in Digital Textual Studies
Digital Humanities, Language and Literature, Literary Studies
The Politics of Storytelling in Island Imperial Formations
Anthropocene, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Environment, Humanities
A World in Translation
Translation Studies, Language and Literature
We Wandered as a Cloud
Affect Studies, Poetry, Language and Literature
Q&A with Professor Aria Fani
Pedagogy, Middle East, Translation Studies, Language and Literature
In Defense of the Search Engine
Digital Humanities, Literary Studies, Language and Literature
New Hanauer Professor and Fellows Study "Melting Port" Cities and Culture-Spanning Art
Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Cosmopolitanism
Denise Grollmus Awarded Heilman Dissertation Prize
Awards, Religion, Language and Literature, Health Humanities
How the Age of Amazon Is Reshaping Literary History
Language and Literature, Literary Studies
New Collection Explores 'What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew'
Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Alvord Fellowship in the Humanities
Awards, Scandinavian Studies, Language and Literature, Cinema
Bachman Creates Suzzallo Library Exhibit on 'Bollywood and Bolsheviks'
Cinema, Language and Literature, Public Scholarship
MLQ Issue Highlights New and Digital Approaches to Literary History
Literary Studies, Language and Literature
Global Literatures & Global Literacies
Current Events, Language and Literature, Pedagogy
Anthony Geist Awarded Knighthood by Spain
Language and Literature, Awards, UW Faculty
Welcome to Visiting Scholar Anca Cristofovici
Visiting Scholars, Language and Literature
Simpson Center Welcomes Visiting Scholars
Language and Literature, UW Faculty
Call for Papers: Studies in the History of the English Language Returns to the UW 20 Years Later
Language and Literature, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, History
Nov. 19 Roundtable: Does Global Literary Studies Have an Agenda for Translation Studies?
Globalization, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Literary Studies, Language and Literature
The Novel Is Dead; Long Live the Anti-Novel
Is Eating Babies Really So Terrible? The Dark Genius of Jonathan Swift
Marvell's Latin and Wordsworth's Greek: Literature and Literalism in the Classical Tradition
Poetry, Language and Literature
Rachel Arteaga (she/her/hers)
Rachel Arteaga is Associate Director of the Simpson Center and Associate Program Director for Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics, a public scholarship program generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Community Colleges, Doctoral Education, Graduate Education, Language and Literature, Literary Studies, Public Scholarship, Race, Religion, Undergraduate Education
Joe Wilson (he/him/his)
Joe Wilson is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of English, as well as a 2020-2021 Collaborative Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics with Rebecca Taylor, who is a Doctoral Student in
Community Colleges, Composition Studies, Language and Literature, Linguistics, Public Scholarship, Queer Studies, Two-year Colleges
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
José Alaniz (he/him/his)
José Alaniz, professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Cinema and Media Studies (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle, has published two monographs, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) and Death,
Cinema, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies, Environment, Language and Literature, Latinx, Literary Studies, Slavic Studies, Visual Culture
José Francisco Robles (he/him/his)
José Francisco Robles is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Washington. He earned a B.A. in Hispanic Literature and an M.A. in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Chile, as well as a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature at El Colegio de México in 2012.
18th Century, Language and Literature, Latin America, Philosophy, Spanish & Portugese
Sarah Dowling (she/her/hers)
Sarah Dowling's research and teaching focus on language politics, settler colonialism, and contemporary writing. She is especially interested in poems written between and across languages.
Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Poetry, Queer Studies
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (he/him/his)
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano studies early modern Ottoman intellectual history, and its connections to literature, poetry, and bureaucracy.
Cultural Studies, History, Language and Literature, Middle East, Religion
Susan Gaylard (she/her/hers)
Susan Gaylard completed her undergraduate work in her native South Africa, before studying at Berkeley and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Prof. Gaylard focuses on the early modern period, in particular the intersection between literature and material culture.
16th Century, 17th Century, Cultural Studies, Italian Studies, Language and Literature, Visual Culture
Jeffrey Todd Knight (he/him/his)
Jeffrey Todd Knight's teaching and research focus on early modern English literature, particularly Shakespeare, and the history of books and reading.
16th Century, 17th Century, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Digital Humanities, Language and Literature
Liina-Ly Roos (she/her/hers)
Liina-Ly Roos received her PhD from the University of Washington, and she taught at the University of Minnesota before joining the GNS. In her teaching and research, she specializes in twentieth to twenty-first century Nordic and Baltic culture with a specific focus on post-WWII and contemporary
Cultural Studies, Language and Literature, Postcolonialism, Public Scholarship
Amanda Doxtater (she/her/hers)
Cinema, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Language and Literature, Scandinavian Studies
Leila Kate Norako (she/her/hers)
Leila K. Norako specializes in late medieval literature and culture, with particular interests in Middle English romance, crusades literature, and matters of Otherness and alterity.
Digital Humanities, Language and Literature, Medieval, Poetry, Race
Geoffrey Turnovsky (he/him/his)
Geoffrey Turnovsky specializes in the literary and cultural history of early modern France and Europe, with an emphasis on print culture, early modern media, the profession of authorship, and on readers and publics in the 17th and 18th centuries.
17th Century, 18th Century, Cultural Studies, French & Italian Studies, History, Language and Literature
Ying-Hsiu Chou (she/her/hers)
Ying-Hsiu Chou's research interests focus on interdisciplinary approaches to Chinese fiction, film, and popular culture, with emphasis on genre, gender, cross-media adaptation, and transcultural encounter.
China, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Language and Literature
Sarah Kremen-Hicks (she/her/hers)
Digital Humanities, Language and Literature, Poetry
Rebecca Taylor (she/her/hers)
Rebecca Taylor is a Doctoral Student in the Department of English, as well as a 2020-2021 Collaborative Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics with
Community Colleges, Composition Studies, Digital Humanities, Higher Education, Language and Literature, Linguistics, Two-year Colleges, Undergraduate Education
Lily Schatz (she/her/hers)
China, Communication, Language and Literature
Gust Burns
Gust Burns is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Washington. His dissertation examines the prohibition of human capacity through mixed readings of artistic works, Black Studies, Marxist theory, and philosophy.
Black Studies, Cinema, Cultural Studies, Language and Literature
Erin Gilbert (she/her/hers)
Cinema, Language and Literature, Latin America
Ping Wang (she/her/hers)
Ping Wang is Associate Professor of Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests range from history of Chinese literature, early and medieval poetics, grammar and syntax of classical Chinese, and Sinological translation.
China, Language and Literature, Poetry