WGSS alumna receives Honorable Mention for MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize

Bettina Judd receives prestigious William Scarborough Prize for new book, Feelin

Dr. Bettina Judd, WGSS alumna (Ph.D, 2014) and Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington will receive an Honorable Mention for the MLA's prestigious William Sanders Scarborough Prize for her book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought. 

The committee's citation reads: 

"Bettina  A. Judd’s Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought captures and illuminates the epistemic value of emotion and sensation. Judd includes her original poetry, visual art, and a curated playlist alongside discussions of Black women and nonbinary writers, vocalists, and visual artists to provide a map toward better understanding Black feminist creations as generative, spirit-filled, and skilled processes of creative power. Feelin shows that emotions—not only joy but also grief, anger, shame, and ecstasy—are essential guides to liberatory be-ing and identification with human, and interspecies, world making. Deeply researched and widely ranging through the archive, the studio, and what Judd indexes as contemporary 'black feminist oceanographics,' her elegant engagements with other scholars and creators offer much to feel and to think about, for our present and our future."

Winners will be officially announced in January. To learn more about the prize visit them online here. Congratulations Bettina!