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Miriam Bartha
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 Miriam Bartha, Assistant Director

Miriam Bartha

Miriam Bartha is Assistant Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she helps develop and support collaborative research projects and the Simpson Center’s public programs. She received her Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University.  She has taught women studies, cultural studies, literature and composition at Rutgers and San Francisco State University.  She also worked previously as an arts administrator for PEN, the international non-profit writers’ advocacy organization, as coordinator of the Poetry and the Public Sphere series, and as project manager for the electronic archiving of HOW(ever), a historic journal of feminist experimental writing and the development of its electronic reincarnation, HOW2.  She co-directs the Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students and is a member of Cultural Studies Praxis Collective, a multi-campus regional network of faculty and staff engaged in community-based research and teaching projects. Current research and teaching interests include the public and semi-public pedagogical uses of various theater techniques.


 
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Climate Change and World Food Security with Mike Davis | Autumn 2008
Mike Davis and the Production of Space with Matthew Sparke | Autumn 2008
French Postwar Documentary with Steven Ungar | Winter 2009
Graduate Courses in Engaged Scholarship/Public Culture | Winter 2009
Microseminar on the Indus Script with Rajesh Rao | Spring 2009
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