Alumni

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Comparative Literature Alum Publishes New Book
December 6, 2025
CMS alum Shea Fomanes receives 2025 Project Arts Grant through 4Culture
October 8, 2025
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha longlisted for National Book Award for poetry
October 17, 2024
CMS graduate Mawahib Ismail featured in Real Change article
August 8, 2024
Kenna Fojas (BA, 2023) article in Lifestyle Asia
November 16, 2023
Yamasaki appointed to MLA executive committee of the LLC Japanese since 1900 forum
May 26, 2023
L Brown profile photo
Alumni Spotlight: Lo Brown
February 22, 2023
‘Freedom’s Path’: A UW alum’s Civil War feature
February 16, 2023
Long Tran photo
Long Hoàng Trần selected to receive the Graduate School’s 2022 Distinguished Thesis Award
July 26, 2022
Long Tran photo
Alumni Spotlight: Long Hoàng Trần
October 5, 2021
Collage of work by Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni related to Hispanic Heritage Month
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
September 8, 2021
‘Ra Ra Rebel’ zine modernizes the '90s riot grrrl movement with its emphasis on inclusivity
June 3, 2021
Collage of AAPI book covers and art work by faculty
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May 14, 2021
New Publication from Nobuko Yamasaki (Ph.D. program alumna)
May 3, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Exhibitions at The Henry Art Gallery, From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor, and More
April 21, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Patty Hayes – The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Impacts of Systemic Racism, Book Launch: Union by Law, and More
February 2, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Meany On Screen: Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Maria Gaspar: Disappearance Landscape, and More
January 27, 2021
ArtSci Roundup: Meany On Screen: Kodō, The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicanx Masculinities, and More
January 10, 2021
Classic slapstick and other silent films for home bingeing
October 13, 2020
Professor Emeritus Makoto Ueda
In memoriam: Makoto Ueda
October 12, 2020
Casey Moore
Alumni Spotlight: Casey Moore
November 13, 2019
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published
June 13, 2019
Romanian Film Festival in Seattle 5th edition poster
Romanian Film Festival in Seattle, Nov. 2-4, 2018
October 24, 2018
Lindenberger photo
In memoriam: Herbert Lindenberger
October 5, 2018
Faculty Friday: Jennifer Bean
October 5, 2018
An Investigative Cinema book cover
New book from Fabrizio Cilento (Ph.D. 2010)
August 16, 2018
Tristan headshot
Alumni Spotlight: Tristan Seniuk
February 6, 2018
Zainichi Korean Literary Workshop flyer
Inaugural Zainichi Korean Literary Workshop organized by alumna Nobuko Yamasaki (Ph.D. 2014) 
December 7, 2017
Feminist Media Histories journal cover
New essay by Annie Fee (Ph.D. 2015) in latest issue of Feminist Media Histories
October 23, 2017
Nathanael Mengist
Where can the liberal arts take you?
October 18, 2017
AF profile photo
Annie Fee receives University of Oslo postdoctoral research fellowship
April 28, 2017
Lawtoo profile photo
Nidesh Lawtoo (Ph.D. 2009) receives 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant
December 28, 2016
Supritha Rajan (M.A. 2001) awarded the 23rd Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book
December 20, 2016
Romanian Film Festival 2016 poster
Third edition of Romanian Film Festival in Seattle to be held November 18-20, 2016
October 27, 2016
Nobuko Yamasaki (Ph.D. 2014) recevies grant from Humanities Center at Lehigh University
February 24, 2016
Mary Childs (Ph.D. 2012) Co-Founder of the Georgian Digital Text Collective
September 23, 2015
First Romanian Film Festival in the Pacific Northwest
October 22, 2014
Maureen Jackson on restoring lost voices in Sephardic culture.
February 10, 2014
New publications from Nidesh Lawtoo (Ph.D. 2009)
October 10, 2013
New book by Maureen Jackson (Ph.D. 2008)
July 9, 2013
Book by Anne G. Sabo (Ph.D. 2000)
June 11, 2013
Two films produced by Jason Reid to make its World and US premiere.
May 3, 2013
"The Blank Canvas" to premiere as the headliner for the 2013 Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival
April 12, 2013
Travis Landry (Ph.D. 2008) receives Whiting Award at Kenyon College
February 15, 2013
Lauren Du Graf (B.A. 2008) wins the 2012-13 A. Owen Aldridge Prize for an Outstanding Essay by a Graduate Student
February 11, 2013
Alum Nathaniel Greenberg (Ph.D. 2012) Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship
September 1, 2012
"Old Goats" now at SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
August 20, 2012
New Publication from Comp Lit Alum Travis Landry (Ph.D. 2008)
May 3, 2012
Two New Publications by Alumna Katy Masuga (Ph.D. 2007)
May 1, 2011
Alexander Schlutz (Ph.D. 2003) Wins Book Award
October 31, 2010