Month: May 2016

A report from Andrew Ferguson, 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow

Andrew Ferguson, Le Guin Fellow
How to Apply for Le Guin Funding 2016-17   Due 9/2/2016
Flyer: Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship PDF
When Andrew Ferguson came to campus to explore UO’s superb collection of feminist science fiction, he wasn’t expecting to uncover an original manuscript of Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu hidden away in the archives. Ferguson, one […]

Alisa Freedman named an Outstanding Faculty Advisor

Pictured is Alisa Freddman.

Long-time CSWS faculty affiliate Alisa Freedman, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as a winner of a 2016 University of Oregon Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award. Dr. Freedman has been named an Outstanding Faculty Advisor.
Alisa Freedman (photo by Jack Liu)
The Division of Undergraduate […]

UO Today interview with author Ariel Gore

Pictured is Ariel Gore.

UO Today interviews Ariel Gore, editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Gore appeared at the 5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, held May 6 – 8, 2016, on the UO campus and at downtown Eugene Public Library. She was interviewed  for UO Today […]

Illegal Immigration, First-Person | Jefferson Public Radio

Pictured is Reyna Grande.

Reyna Grande garnered critical acclaim and awards for her first two novels. Then she turned her focus on herself for a memoir about her illegal
Source: Illegal Immigration, First-Person | Jefferson Public Radio
May 5, 2016—Jefferson Public Radio interviewed author Reyna Grande on the eve of her visit to the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium.

Now online, “Open Call,” Issue 9 of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

Issue 9 of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology brings together an array of nuanced and intersectional discussions around current topics of significance to research on gender, technology and new media. The articles in this issue offer critical explorations of topics ranging from digitizing knowledge the construction of femmescapes through blogging the […]