| Description | The IAS Faculty Chat series is designed to connect students with the information and relationships needed to thrive in IAS. Each month, faculty representing different IAS majors will join students in casual online video chat to share stories about their teaching, research, and more. This event is meant to help students build social networks in IAS and identify opportunities to connect. Although this Faculty Chat is focused on Culture, Literature & the Arts and Interdisciplinary Arts, all IAS students are invited to attend! This chat will feature IAS faculty members Amaranth Borsuk and Alice Pedersen, and will be facilitated by IAS Academic Advisor Monique Taylor. This event will be recorded. REGISTER NOW on Zoom! Already have questions for our faculty members? Submit them when you register. *** Amaranth Borsuk received her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California, where her work focused on the use of writing technologies by modern and contemporary poets. She joined the University of Washington Bothell campus in 2012, where she is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, and the Associate Director of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing & Poetics. Her research interests examine the ways in which the technology of a book influences both reading and writing. She has published in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, and Chicago Review, among other journals. At UW Bothell, Professor Borsuk encourages students to consider why writing takes teh form it does and how it is, in turn, influenced by the form it takes. She believes her role in IAS is to encourage a sense of community in the classroom in order to facilitate risk-taking and experimentation. Professor Borsuk inspires students to treat one another’s work with the same respect given to published pieces. Her most recent project crowdsourced definitions of “the book” from scholars, poets, book artists, librarians, and publishers in the interest of expanding and deepening our understanding of what books can be and do. Alice Pedersen received her PhD in English from the University of Washington. She joined the University of Washington Bothell campus in 2012, where she is an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. Her research examines how contemporary arguments about justice, race, and gender emerged from ideas in the 17th and 18th centuries, and observes the continuation of these themes in genre-writing over time. At UW Bothell, Professor Pedersen explores theories about ethnic studies, performance studies, and public scholarship to understand how the classroom space can become a location to practice active forms of engagement. She believes her role in IAS is to help students engage in difficult ideas, support one another with new ways of thinking, and to connect classroom discussions with their life worlds. Her most recent project examines the history, economics, and cultural representations of yoga as a form of contemplative writing practice.
|
|---|