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 being funded includes projects focused all over the globe. Graduate teaching fellow Baran Germen was […]
Sarah Hamid
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 of the winning panelists at the seventh annual Graduate Student Research Forum last Friday. Her […]
adrienne maree brown, 2015-16 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow
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 Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, […]
Barbara Mossberg, humanities professor in the Clark Honors College
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 conference is an international summit that features acclaimed […]
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 Le Guin, but I’d bet my last nickel there are thousands of us out there. Tolkien […]
Andrew Ferguson, Le Guin Fellow
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 to uncover the original manuscript of Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu hidden away […]
