News from the School of IAS
Category: Research and Creative Practice
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new chapbook
Last month, Above/Ground Press in Ottawa published W/\SH: Initial Contact, a collaborative chapbook created by IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk with poet and artist Terri Witek. This small book of poetry is the first part of a longer speculative ecopoetic manuscript that includes work in a number of different forms, including audio, video, and frottage art. ...
November 15, 2021
Neil Simpkins in Nevada State College Writing Center Social Justice Speaker Series
IAS faculty member Neil Simpkins gave a talk for the Nevada State College Writing Center Social Justice Speaker Series on November 10, 2011. He shared a chapter from his book in progress, Accommodation Work: The Rhetorical Tactics of Disabled College Writers. He also ...
November 10, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk publishes new collaborative poems in Snail Trail 3
The latest issue of Snail Trail, a journal of ecopoetics, includes two poems by IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk. These epistolary poems and accompanying visual artwork are part of W/\SH, Borsuk's collaboration with poet and artist Terri Witek, a book-length work of speculative poetry that includes correspondence by women on two worlds ...
November 8, 2021
Anida Yoeu Ali: Red Chador rises again
A chador is a full-body gown worn by some Muslim women, but the Red Chador, created by IAS faculty member Anida Yoeu Ali, is more than just a garment. It is an artistic expression that depicts to the public what it means to be a Muslim, a woman and a performer in an age of heightened Islamophobia. ...
November 8, 2021
Ching-In Chen: “Inside me, a family”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Inside me, a family” was selected by guest curator Kimberly M. Blaeser for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Series, which is sent out to 450,000 subscribers daily. The poem is ...
November 5, 2021
Alka Kurian speaks on feminism and conducts interview with feminist icon in Morocco
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian, currently on a Fulbright research trip to Morocco, gave a talk entitled “A New Protest Culture: Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism in Morocco” at the Al Akhwayn University, Ifrane. Kurian also attended the play Le Masque in Rabat. This play is ...
November 4, 2021
Becca Price publishes results of science education program
IAS faculty member Becca Price and colleagues published a paper about the success of the Science Teaching Experience Program: Working in Science Education. Ph.D. scientists who go through the program are very successful at teaching with techniques that we know work especially well and that include everyone in the class in the learning. A key feature of the program is ...
November 4, 2021
Alka Kurian remote-directs Tasveer South Asian Litfest
IAS faculty member Alka Kurian, currently on a Fulbright research trip to Morocco, remote-directed Tasveer's South Asian Litfest TSAL 2021. The festival was enabled thanks to a combination of technology – Zoom, Elevent, Slack, WhatsApp, FaceTime, and YouTube – and the tireless behind-the-scenes work of Tasveer staff and volunteers scattered across the world who ...
November 1, 2021
Karam Dana: “Between Orientalism and Racialization”
IAS faculty member Karam Dana gave his first in-person talk since the start of the pandemic. Dana was invited to deliver the inaugural lecture of Stonehill College’s newly-established ...
October 29, 2021
Ching-In Chen: “Breath Is Missing”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Breath Is Missing” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a journal edited by Haley Lasche which highlights work investigating the socio-political influences on language and ...
October 27, 2021