Kathleen Woodward has been the Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington since 2000, and is a Lockwood Professor in Humanities and in English. Her areas of specialization include the following: Twentieth-century American Literature and Culture; Discourse of the Emotions; Technology and Science Studies; Age Studies. Her fields of interest include the following: Culture; Digital Humanities; Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Literature. She is currently working on risk in the context of globalization and population aging. Her writing talks about the invisibility status of older women, and she advocates for an arena of visibility.