Humanities Division

Books make great gifts. Books by Arts & Sciences alumni? Even better. Here are some recent arrivals, from fiction to nonfiction to memoir to poetry.

Got your attention? Turns out swear words provide unique insights into how language works.

Think we don't have an accent here in the Pacific Northwest? Think again. Scientists say we do, in fact, have an accent, though our native ears may not always pick up on it.

Seattle Times columnist Sarah Stuteville talks with young Seattle-area poets who draw on complex international identities and themes in their work. Jackson School student Hamda Yusuf is profiled.

Nine weeks to complete an independent research project? Students in the Summer Institute for the Arts and Humanities embraced that challenge.

The Critical Gaming Project was founded by a group of UW graduate students in English, sociology and information science who were interested in thinking critically about games from humanistic and social perspectives.

Four recent PhD grads, with research ranging from human rights to ultrafast X-ray science, received the A&S Graduate Medal this spring.

"Learning another language is discovering another avenue for self-expression," says Joy Maa (Spanish, Japanese, 2014), who is fluent in four languages.

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."