Category: Literature

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at UT Dallas recently announced a major gift from alumnus Richard Kurjan MS’82 to name the school’s Center for Translation Studies after its founder, Dr. Rainer Schulte. According to Kurjan, the gift acknowledges the world-renowned expert in literature translation who he credits with deeply […]

For Joan Bernstein BA’08, MA’10, learning is an essential part of life. So even after she receives her doctoral degree in literature this spring and becomes the oldest-ever University of Texas at Dallas PhD graduate, Bernstein will continue to expand her education. “I can’t even call it learning — it’s like air. It’s an inner excitement,” she […]

“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 […]

By Office of Media Relations | Sept. 15, 2022 The University of Texas at Dallas welcomed one of its largest groups of new tenured and tenure-track faculty members with 43 of them joining the University this year, including many who started this fall. The professors bring an array of expertise in disciplines ranging from art history and game […]

Dr. Carie S. T. King, clinical professor of communication and rhetoric in the School of Arts and Humanities, was recently awarded the President’s Teaching Excellence Award in Online/Blended Instruction. King was one of five UT Dallas educators who received teaching excellence awards this spring. She has been teaching writing and communication at UT Dallas since […]

The University of Texas at Dallas recently honored five educators with annual President’s Teaching Excellence Awards, while 48 others were recognized for their completion of a national classroom teaching course. “Teachers have such a great influence on their students,” said UT Dallas President Richard C. Benson, the Eugene McDermott Distinguished University Chair of Leadership. “We […]

Seven history students have been inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society. The society’s mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. It seeks to bring students and faculty together both intellectually and socially for […]

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 […]

To celebrate the Class of 2022, we asked some of our graduating Comets to share their plans for the future or a fond memory of attending A&H at UTD. Here’s what they had to say… Visit our full coverage of all Spring 2022 A&H ceremonies. Hayden Lopez BA, Visual and Performing Arts – Theatre Plans […]