The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon recently awarded more than $66,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2016-17 Academic Year. The research…
Feb. 29, 2016—Source: Research forum puts graduate students in the spotlight | Around the O Congratulations to Sarah Hamid, CSWS’s graduate teaching fellow for the Fembot Project, and master’s candidate in Media Studies, SOJC. Sarah is a member of one…
December 4, 2015 Eugene, OR—adrienne maree brown, an independent science fiction scholar and a social justice activist, has been chosen as the 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow. Brown lives in Detroit, Michigan, and is the coeditor of Octavia’s…
December 7, 2015—“Barbara Mossberg, a humanities professor in the Clark Honors College, has been chosen to contribute to the 2015 Abroad Writers’ Conference this month in Dublin, Ireland — which was honored as UNESCO’s fourth ‘City of Literature’ in 2010. “The annual…
Source: Public Books — Le Guin’s Anarchist Aesthetics October 15, 2015 — “What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. I can only speak for one childhood—and one adulthood—spent reading…
Editor’s Note: The 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship is currently open for applications, with a deadline of October 1, 2015. When Andrew Ferguson came to campus to explore UO’s superb collection of feminist science fiction, he wasn’t expecting…
