• Helping Soldiers Tell Their Stories

    English Professor Shawn Wong leads storytelling workshops for soldiers transitioning to civilian life, through the Red Badge Project.

    November 2015 Perspectives
  • China, Revisited

    Jane Yang, a UW sophomore who grew up in Shanghai, is teaching the UW men’s basketball team about her language and culture. Now, she’s looking at her home — and herself — with fresh eyes.
    WASHINGTON.EDU
  • UW hosts conference on medieval text ‘Piers Plowman’

    One hundred scholars are coming to the UW this week to discuss 14th century text.

    UW Today
  • After war, finding the right words

    University of Washington's Shawn Wong, professor of english, uses storytelling to help veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars re-acclimate to civilian life.

    Humanities Washington
  • The Fantastic Four

    A violist, an economist, a poet, and a mathematician share the College of Arts & Sciences’ highest undergraduate honor, the Dean's Medal.

    June 2015 Perspectives
  • Telling Stories, Opening Minds

    Elizabeth Wu's passion for theater led her to direct a play and organize a theater conference—all in her senior year at the UW.

    June 2015 Perspectives
  • College Confidence in the High School Classroom

    Texts and Teachers bridges the gap between high school and college through parallel courses and campus visits.

    March 2015 Perspectives
  • Author Charles Johnson discusses new work — and the return of Emery Jones

    A Q&A with Charles Johnson, the UW's Pollock Professor of English, now emeritus. He is the author of 21 books over a 50-year career.

    UW Today
  • The best U.S. colleges for a major in English

    The UW is ranked as one of the best colleges in Seattle in addition to being in the top 100 schools in the country. The university challenges students to view the world through multiple lenses and understand how fields are interrelated.
    USA Today
  • Great Reads by A&S Alums

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

    December 2014 Perspectives
  • Borders collapse in voices of young poets

    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.
    The Seattle Times
  • Top Grad Students Honored

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

    June 2014 Perspectives
  • Global issues at play in book of study-abroad student letters

    Creative letters written by University of Washington undergraduates who studied last summer in Bangalore, India, are gathered in a new book.
    UW Today
  • Students advocate for extension lecturers through letter to Michael Young

    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.
    The Daily
  • Veterans open up, learn to tell stories under Red Badge Project

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