Archive: 2021

April 16, 2021 - Students from the Dance Composition and Production Collaboration class will be performing unique compositions and designs in a public, final project next month. The performance, Composition Jumpstart3, will be presented in a streaming format offered for public viewing on the our YouTube channel May 6, 7, and 8. DANC 3342 is taught by Chris Treviño […]

April 16, 2021 - The School of Arts and Humanities is presenting the classic Greek play, “Oedipus the King.” The show will be live-streamed April 15-17 at 8 p.m. and April 22-24 at 8 p.m. “Oedipus the King” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, first performed in about 429 BCE. It was the second of Sophocles’ […]

April 16, 2021 - A new book by Dr. David Channell, Professor of Arts and Humanities, will be part of a series from Routledge publishing, called Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. The book, about George Wilson, a Scottish chemist, should be finished by this summer and published next year. According to Channell’s research, Wilson’s textbook […]

April 16, 2021 - Art from seven UT Dallas graduate students is being featured at Gallery SITE131, a Dallas nonprofit dedicated to spotlighting new art from Texas, America, and abroad. “Paired Picks: UTD graduates” will be exhibited through May 22, 2021. According to a release from SITE131, artworks by each of the seven artists are uniquely different, exposing the […]

April 16, 2021 - Dr. Kimberly Hill, assistant professor of history, recently presented the Stanton Sharp Lecture for the Southern Methodist University Clements Department of History. Hill’s theme of “Teaching Through a Pandemic” drew from current events; from her ongoing research on Christian activism; and from her first book, A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown […]

April 8, 2021 - This year’s Sherry Clarkson Prize for the best graduate student paper delivered at the 2021 RAW Conference goes to Shivika Mathur for her paper “Practical in the Extreme”: Hyperbole and (Dis)enchantment in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Shivika is a literature Ph.D. student and TA, teaching Rhetoric 1302. Her presentation, ‘“Practical in the Extreme:” […]

March 29, 2021 - In the wake of the current pandemic, The University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities (A&H) recently designed a new drive-thru experience where prospective students and families were able to talk safely face-to-face with faculty, staff and students. “Because we are a creative school, we came up with a new way to […]

March 25, 2021 - What brought you to the School of Arts and Humanities? After taking a readings course on Latin American Migration with Dr. Monica Rankin my sophomore year, I knew I wanted to learn more about Latin American history and how it continues impacting U.S. policy making today. I felt that adding a Latin American Studies concentration […]

March 24, 2021 - After 50 years of capturing the beauty of important cultural spaces around the world, photographer Carolyn Brown has committed to leave her entire life’s work to the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas. The collection includes thousands of images of the Middle East, Mexico, the Southwest and Dallas. […]

March 24, 2021 - What brought you to the School of Arts and Humanities? Shortly after I received my undergraduate degree, I was looking for an institution with a strong interdisciplinary education where I could make my way and fashion my own academic plan. I met with a few local universities, and I felt most at home when I […]