Category: Literature

We are so proud of our graduates! Below you’ll find our coverage of the various Spring 2022 ceremonies as well as an outline of what ceremonies to expect! This page will be updated with photos and features over the next few days. Be sure to look at UT Dallas’ official graduation website for full and […]

Eight A&H graduate students in film studies recently had the opportunity to present their research at a major industry conference. The virtual annual conference was organized by The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), a leading scholarly organization in the United States for research in film, media, and TV studies, The students presented on […]

Dr. Maurine Ogbaa, assistant professor of literature in the School of Arts and Humanities, has been selected to participate in a one-month residency through the Jentel Artist Residency Program. Ogbaa, a writer-scholar who teaches graduate and undergraduate prose workshops and literature seminars at UT Dallas, will work from July 15 to August 15 in Banner, […]

Dr. Carie S.T. King, clinical professor and associate director of rhetoric in the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas, has been selected as the managing editor of publications for Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. Established in 1924, the honor society is dedicated to fostering literacy and […]

Please join us in congratulating our colleague Sean Cotter on the extraordinary critical reception his translation of Magda Cârneci’s FEM has received. If you would like to buy a copy of the book, visit this link. In the meantime, here are some highlights from the many recent reviews of the book: The English publication of FEM—Romanian […]

A literature senior at The University of Texas at Dallas who was frustrated by the toxic rhetoric on social media launched a campaign last summer to engage people in face-to-face conversations about race. Nifa Kaniga took to the streets for a week from noon to sunset in his mostly white and conservative community of Dripping […]

A new book by Dr. Ming Dong Gu, professor of literature and associate director for the UT Dallas Center for Asian Studies, provides a comprehensive investigation of Chinese and Western studies. Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics covers a broad spectrum of critical discourses and uncovers connections among a wide range of thinkers, theorists, […]

Professor Gu‘s latest monograph begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, aesthetic thought, metaphysical conception, and reasoning. Focusing on issues of language, […]

Kristina Kirk, a graduate student in the School of Arts and Humanities, has been awarded the President’s Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Assistants. She has been teaching at UT Dallas since fall 2016. Kirk said the most rewarding part of teaching rhetoric is showing students that writing can be fun. She also said the online […]

Interest in learning foreign languages at The University of Texas at Dallas is growing at a significant pace, with the highest increases in Spanish, Japanese and Korean. Overall, language class enrollment has increased more than 76% in the past five years. “I think younger generations are more open-minded and want to travel the world,” said […]