Category: Books

Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship: An Interview with 2014 Fellow Kathryn Allan

Kathryn Allan (l) chats with Jenée Wilde, then-CSWS development GTF, at the CSWS 40th Anniversary Celebration in Nov. 2013 / photo by Jack Liu.
Editor’s Note: The deadline for the 2014-15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship is September 5, 2014. This interview appears in the 2014 CSWS Annual Review.

“‘The Other Lives’—Locating Dis/Ability in Utopian Feminist […]

Fembot’s August 2014 Books Aren’t Dead Interview: Monster Culture in the 21st Century

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for August 2014 is now uploaded on the Fembot website. In this month’s interview Mark McCarthy (doctoral candidate at University of South Florida) talks with Marina Levina (assistant professor, University of Memphis) and Diem-My Bui (clinical assistant professor, University of Illinois-Chicago), editors of Monster Culture in the 21st Century: […]

Courtney Thorsson Wins 2014 Early Career Award

Courtney Thorsson
June 10, 2014—UO Research Excellence Awards announced | Oregon Research.
Courtney Thorsson, assistant professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is one of two University of Oregon faculty to receive a 2014 Early Career Award. CSWS supported Professor Thorsson’s foodways and literature research with a 2012 CSWS Faculty Research Award. She is the author […]

Now available: “Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed,” by Theresa May

Salmon Is Everything: Community-Based Theatre in the Klamath Watershed, by Theresa May with Suzanne Burcell, Kathleen McCovey, and Jean O’Hara. Foreword by Gordon Bettles. (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies, 2014),  208 pages. ISBN 978-0-87071-746-8. Paperback, $19.95.
Synopsis from OSU Press:  “After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist […]

Author of “Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism” Interviewed

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for May 2014 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Magdalena Olszanowski (Ph.D. Candidate, Concordia University) talks with Laura Portwood-Stacer (Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University), author of Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism (Bloomsbury Press, 2013).
You can listen to this interview at: http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2014/05/01/books-arent-dead-lifestyle-politics-and-radcial-activism/
Both the podcast […]

CSWS Director Carol A. Stabile Receives 2014 ACLS Fellowship

Carol Stabile
Carol A. Stabile, director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for 2014. A professor in the UO School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Dr. Stabile was […]