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Recent Alumni News
Writer and poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (UW Comparative Literature alumna) was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for poetry for her latest collection, "Something About Living".
CMS graduate Mawahib Ismail (BA in CMS, 2023) was recently featured in an article on Real Change. Read about her project here: “A very unequivocally Somali story”: “Hooyo Macaan” depicts a tale rarely told on the silver screen.
Alumna Kenna Fojas (BA, CMS) wrote about her experience directing her first short film, "Peach Fuzz", and how it ignited her passion for filmmaking as a conduit for self-discovery in an article published in the November issue of Lifestyle Asia.
We received an update from Nobuko Yamasaki (Ph.D., Comparative Literature) that she has been appointed to a 5 year term on the executive committee of the LLC Japanese since 1900 forum for the Modern Language Association. Congratulations Nobuko!
Yamasaki is currently faculty at Lehigh University.
Lo Brown Major: Cinema and Media Studies (previously Comparative Literature) & Drama Class of 2007 Hometown: Tulsa, Oklahoma Favorite films: Nights Of Cabiria, The Conformist
“Freedom’s Path” is an ambitious Civil War film with genuinely impressive production quality, but quite a few narrative missteps. The film, which took over 10 years to make, is writer, director, and UW alum Brett Smith’s first feature film. Read contributing writer Justin Shen's full film review.
M.A. program alumnus Long Hoàng Trần (M.A. 2021) was selected to receive the Graduate School's 2022 Distinguished thesis award. His M.A.
Our first M.A. student in Cinema & Media Studies, Long Tran completed his graduate degree in Spring 2021. He immediately landed a job teaching media studies at Orting High School in western Washington, where he began teaching this fall. We are so proud of him! And can’t wait to see what he does next.
