Category: Creative Writing

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, & Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas and the University’s Center for Asian Studies (CAS) hosted the acclaimed 21st Century Asian American novelist and poet Dr. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for a lecture on India’s turbulent struggle for independence.

Original article by Jessica Good published by the UT Dallas News Center. In between playing her violin, writing a book of poetry and conducting outreach for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Breanna Shen BS’23 made time to apply for a fellowship from The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. The neuroscience graduate won a Marcus L. Urann Fellowship, marking […]

Two seniors studying literature with a concentration on creative writing at The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, & Technology at UT Dallas secured the top spots in a prestigious writing competition. At this year’s Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) annual conference, Michaela Kubes and Nezihe Yildirim impressed the judges with […]

Two seniors studying literature with a concentration on creative writing at The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, & Technology at UT Dallas secured the top spots in a prestigious writing competition. At this year’s Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) annual conference, Michaela Kubes and Nezihe Yildirim impressed the judges with […]

The Harry W. Bass School commemorated the Day of the Dead through a series of events presented by the UT Dallas Center for U.S.-Latin America Initiatives (CUSLAI). The CUSLAI Día de Muertos Symposium, titled “Emotional Nepantla,” unfolded over two days, paying homage to the emotional space where individuals navigate internal struggles between two cultures. The […]

Dr. Erika Doss, a historian of American art and culture, has joined The University of Texas at Dallas as a professor of art history in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the Edith O’Donnell Distinguished Chair in the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History.

“Through fiction, I have something to say about the ways living on a border, a place where you can have a foot in two different countries, influences inhabitants’ inner lives,” said Rachelle Scott, a UT Dallas School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology (AHT) doctoral candidate. “I do a lot of reading of others who write […]

Adrienne McLean Victor Worsfold Outstanding Faculty As a prolific film historian who works in the field, Dr. Adrienne McLean equips her students by sharing her insight and experience. Teaching film studies at the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, her areas of specialization are film history and theory, women and film, classical Hollywood cinema, and […]

Two recent PhD graduates from UT Dallas’ School of Arts and Humanities recently published separate short story collections. Brian DiNuzzo, PhD’19, a writer and educator based in Allentown, New Jersey, recently published a collection of short stories, called “Hoaxes and Other Stories.” The characters populating DiNuzzo’s debut short story collection may be eccentrics, but at […]

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies recently hosted the event “Echoes of Atrocity in Ukraine.” The event, meant to recognize the recent invasion of Ukraine as well as pay tribute to those lost in this region both in the past and present, featured presentations by the Ackerman faculty as well as musical performances by students […]