Recent faculty books from the 蘑菇视频 include those from linguistics, Slavic languages and literature and French. 蘑菇视频 News spoke with the authors of four publications to learn more about their work. Scrutinizing and confronting AI hype Emily M. Bender, 蘑菇视频 professor of linguistics, co-authored 鈥淭he AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech鈥檚 Hype and Create the Future We Want鈥� with Alex Hanna, the director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute. The book looks at the the…
Three new faculty books from the 蘑菇视频 cover wide-ranging topics: life in the Rio Grande Valley, fossils of Washington state and the colonial roots of contemporary intersex medicine. 蘑菇视频 News talked with the authors to learn more. Collection highlights life in Rio Grande Valley 鈥淧uro Pinche True Fictions鈥� is a collection of short stories and comics from Jos茅 Alaniz, professor of Slavic languages and literature at the 蘑菇视频. The works are mostly set in the Rio Grande Valley…
Who gets to be a superhero? What about a villain? It depends on where you look. In the 1940s, comic book villains were often distinguished from heroes through physical disability. That changed in the 1960s and 70s, when it became more common for heroes 鈥� think Daredevil and Professor X 鈥� to be built around disability. In this episode, he analyzes the physical depictions of superheroes and villains through the decades. Jos茅 Alaniz, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at…
Recent honors and achievements by 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff include a grant for field research in the Middle East, a staffer’s play being streamed by a Seattle theater and a professor’s cartoon remembrance of a relative lost to COVID-19.
Here’s a quick look at some giftworthy books and music created by 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff in 2020, and a reminder of some recent favorites.
Jos茅 Alaniz says that comics 鈥� especially superhero tales 鈥� hooked him and “rewired” his brain at an early age. They also got him drawing his own comics, chronicling his life and the things he observes. Now Alaniz, a 蘑菇视频 professor of Slavic languages and literatures, has published a collection of his own drawings and essays. “The Phantom Zone.”
Comics and graphic can be serious business. Scholars, critics, historians, teachers, curators of comic art and graphic publications will gather at the 蘑菇视频 and locations in Seattle Nov. 2-4 for the 2017 International Comic Arts Forum.