Archive: 2018
Winner of Annual Sherry Clarkson Prize Announced: Yejing Wu
April 20, 2018 - The winner of the Sherry Clarkson Award for best conference paper or presentation at the RAW Symposium this year is Yejing Wu. Her paper, “Double Take: Truman Capote and the Tradition of the Grotesque Comic in Other Voices, Other Rooms,” was described as a “well-written piece of scholarship [that] makes a real contribution and shows […]
Tuesday Night Band, Orchestra Courses Provide Opportunity for Musically Minded Students
April 12, 2018 - In the minutes leading up to 7 p.m. the air is full of the scuffing of chairs across carpet, the metal scraping as music stands are unfolded, and the shuffling of sheet music being passed through the ranks. Two students wheel a pair of double basses from a back closet stuffed with instruments in black […]
Math Major Fine-Tunes Career as Music Producer, Composer
April 9, 2018 - Larce Blake remembers being “forced” at age 10 to take piano lessons. Three years later, stirred by listening to old-school jazz and funk artists like the Gap Band and Earth, Wind & Fire, he started tinkering with tracks and composing music. Now a junior math major in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, he […]
People with Parkinson’s Express Themselves in Instructor’s Dance Class
April 5, 2018 - According to UT Dallas dance faculty member Misty Owens, dancing is considerably more than it seems. The movements and motions are obvious, but Owens said it’s about the physical and mental process of thought, emotions and inspiration that create the expression of dance. Each week, in addition to teaching her classes at UT Dallas, Owens […]
History Professor Challenges High Textbook Prices with Online Option
March 22, 2018 - As the costs of college textbooks increase, a UT Dallas professor is offering an alternative for students — a free, online college textbook that he and a collaborator have developed. Dr. Ben Wright, assistant professor of history in the School of Arts and Humanities, is co-editor of The American Yawp, a free online, collaborative, open […]
Women and the Movies they Make: Curated by UT Dallas Assistant Professor Shilyh Warren
March 20, 2018 - Shilyh Warren, an assistant professor of film and aesthetic studies, is curating an event this Sunday (March 25) at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Richardson. The event focuses on female filmmakers and celebrates the works women have made since film began. The event will be split into two programs. The first program begins with “Women […]
Study Suggests Exploring Values Can Enhance Science Education
March 1, 2018 - New research from UT Dallas indicates that values should play a bigger role in the study of science in schools. The research, which appears in the journal Science & Education, found that students typically do not explore predetermined values or evaluate whether they are appropriate to the particular issue they are examining. Dr. Matthew Brown, […]
Holocaust Experts To Share Their Findings at Scholars’ Conference
February 22, 2018 - The UT Dallas Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies will welcome some of the world’s foremost Holocaust scholars, theologians and survivors for the 48th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches on March 3-5, 2018. The collection of experts will share their findings in hopes that the lessons of the Holocaust will remain relevant. […]
Whitney Stewart, “Fashioning Frenchness: Gens de Couleur Libres and the Cultural Struggle for Power in Antebellum New Orleans,” Journal of Social History 51, no. 3 (February 2018), 526–56
February 1, 2018 - While travelers to antebellum New Orleans consistently commented on a pervasive French aura in the city, exactly what and who defined this Frenchness was in flux over the first half of the nineteenth century. From the city’s earliest days, residents constructed myriad and often conflicting definitions of Frenchness, but most versions associated the Frenchness of […]
Art Exhibition ‘Transmission Reentry’ Receives Huge Publicity!
January 25, 2018 - Our current art exhibition, Transmission Reentry, at the SP/N Gallery has gotten a substantial amount of publicity and began with a tremendous opening last Friday with an attendance of 150+! The show made Glasstire’s top 5 picks of the week in Texas, KERA Art & Seek’s pick for last Friday, and now… an article in […]
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