Alycia Gilbert (she/her/hers)

Honors Curriculum and Academic Planning Specialist

amgilb@uw.edu

Here in Honors I… collaborate with and support Honors faculty as they create exciting, engaging courses that will challenge and inspire our students. In addition to working with the Honors staff to build the Interdisciplinary Honors curriculum each year, I also partner with Departmental Honors programs across campus to develop opportunities for students to explore their chosen major in greater depth. I’m also the instructor for the Honors capstone course, HONORS 496!

I like thinking about & studying… adaptations! My PhD work at UW focused on literature and adaptation studies: how historical novels are reimagined into films, comic books, plays—you name it. I love tracing how stories travel over time and across different cultures, exploring how adaptations reimagine both their source texts and the power structures at play within them. I have a particular soft spot for nineteenth-century adaptations, from Jane Austen miniseries to schlocky Dracula movies. I’m also a big horror fan (the campier, the better!), I love teaching and working with students, and at any given moment, I’m thinking about the chicken shawarma sandwich at Al Bacha down in Cap Hill. 

My first week in college… I signed up for a jogging class, when I’ve always, always hated running. I was so determined to knock out my physical education requirement that it never occurred to me that I could wait and see what courses would be offered in later semesters. I spent fourteen weeks sweating in the Tennessee heat instead of backpacking or salsa dancing.