Alycia Gilbert

UW Honors Staff

Alycia Gilbert

Alycia Gilbert

Honors Curriculum and Academic Operations Manager

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. I help develop the Interdisciplinary Honors curriculum, assist with Departmental Honors across campus and manage the Honors Program’s academic operations. I also help oversee programmatic operations in the Honors office to keep things running smoothly!

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. 

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.


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