Category: Books

Shannon Elizabeth Bell Interviewed for Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead Podcast

Fembot’s February Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview couldn’t come at a more important time, especially in light of last month’s Elk River chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia.
In this BAD interview Sue Dockstader (MS, University of Oregon) talks with Shannon Bell (assistant professor, University of Kentucky), author of Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian […]

UO Today #558 Molly Gloss

Molly Gloss, prize-winning novelist, is the author of Jump-Off Creek, Wild Life, and The Hearts of Horses. She discusses her writing and her forthcoming novel due out in fall 2014. Gloss was interviewed in November 2013 for UO Today by Paul Peppis, interim director of the Oregon Humanities Center.
Gloss visited the UO campus as a participant […]

Reviews of Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”

Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ – NYTimes.com.
NPR Review: “‘Beside Ourselves’ Explores Human-Animal Connections”
Karen Joy Fowler will be the featured author at the 2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium, May 1 -3, 2014.
Locations: UO campus
Eugene Downtown Library
http://csws.uoregon.edu/2014-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/

CSWS Affiliate Alisa Freedman Interviewed

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for December 2013 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Kate Page-Lippsmeyer (Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California) talks with Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, University of Oregon), coeditor of Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, […]

“Building Feminist Worlds” Recommended Book List

Molly Gloss / photo by Jack Liu
Building Feminist Worlds—40th Anniversary Symposium panel recommended works: L. Timmel Duchamp, Molly Gloss, Andrea Hairston, Larissa Lai, Margaret McBride
At the CSWS 40th Anniversary celebration November 9, guest panelists in Session 3 of the Sally Miller Gearhart “Worlds Beyond World” Feminist Science Fiction symposium recommended books, stories, films, plays, and […]

CSWS Names First Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow at the 40th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Event

November 8, 2013
Eugene, OR – Canadian scholar and editor Kathryn Allan has been selected as the first ever recipient of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Sponsored equally by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives, the award […]