Humanities Division

Ever heard of a student writing a second honors thesis "mostly just for fun"? Meet Kathleen Noll (History, Classics/Latin, 2014), a scholar of medieval history.

Creative letters written by University of Washington undergraduates who studied last summer in Bangalore, India, are gathered in a new book.

The students from the Department of English's Masters of Arts for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MA TESOL) program gathered on Tuesday afternoon to deliver a letter to President Michael Young's office in Gerberding Hall that outlined their dissatisfaction with the UW's treatment of extension lecturers.

Rain and wind didn't faze the Taiwanese Overseas Student Association (TOSA) as they held their first MAYniac Taiwan Carnival last Saturday. The event took place at the HUB Lawn and brought in a crowd of more than 1000 people.

For students on a CHID program in Europe, visits with the Roma community (commonly known as Gypsies) challenged persistent stereotypes.

Audiences delighted in a lively Federico García Lorca play, performed entirely in Spanish by students in SPAN 449: Spanish Play Production.

Doug Underwood is a University of Washington professor of communication. He answered a few questions about his latest book, "The Undeclared War between Fiction and Journalism: Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History."

The UW Department of Classics recently expanded beyond the UW campus and into various high schools in Washington, making the UW the first college in the state to offer Latin university courses to high school students.

English professor Shawn Wong helps discharged veterans learn to tell their story and cope with transition.

Hannah Park, interviewed by the College after winning the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship in 2013, has now earned another top honor: the 2014 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets

The Department of Classics was recently recognized for its efforts to promote equity and diversity in both its faculty and students.

The UW School of Music and UW Slavic Languages & Literatures co-host a two-day conference with the Seattle Symphony on music of Russian diaspora.

Emeritus professor at the UW and National Book Award winner Charles Johnson writes a children's book that features an African-American science prodigy who is bullied because he's different.

In his new book "The Power of Song," Guntis Smidchens explores what is often dubbed "the Singing Revolution," a passive resistance movement that took hold in the Baltic nations.

He's taught English in Russia and worked on messaging apps at Microsoft. Now Julian Chan ('07) is combining his two passions, language and technology.