Students in Associate Professor Tore Olsson’s spring 2024 Red Dead History course were already highly engaged in its unique topic: viewing American history through the lens of the popular video game series Red Dead Redemption. They were in for a surprising new connection, though, when they showed up to class one day expecting a pre-spring-break […]
Are we paying enough attention? Are we paying too much attention? Are we paying attention to the right things? Researchers in philosophy and related fields will gather this July 1–5 in Budapest, Hungary, to address these questions of today’s attention economy at the Ethics of Attention summer university course at Budapest’s Central European University (CEU). […]
Meet and Greet with Ian Kelly Noon Wednesday, April 24Mary Greer Room, Hodges LibraryFree, open to the public Ian Kelly keeps such a busy schedule as a playwright, stage and screen actor, and screenwriter that his participation in a major movie franchise is not even on the first page of his website. Only the most […]
The College of Arts and Sciences hosted its annual Faculty Convocation March 25, 2024, at the UT Conference Center in Downtown Knoxville. Faculty from across the college received awards for excellence in teaching and advising, academic outreach, research and creative activity, and more. Congratulations to all the award recipients on your outstanding service to our […]
The College of Arts and Sciences Division of Arts and Humanities community gathered in early November to celebrate 25 faculty members’ recent accomplishments of published works at an inaugural Fall Book Party. Faculty authors and others chatted about their books over refreshments at the early evening soiree, which took place November 8 in the Jack […]
Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Art, will serve as the inaugural divisional dean for arts and humanities in the UT College of Arts and Sciences. Since 1985, Lyons has taught printmaking at UT. Working with his colleagues, he has helped elevate the MFA printmaking program to its current third-place ranking among public […]
Thank you to the following retired faculty members for your years of service to your department, the college, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Arts & Humanities Faculty Frank Martin, Associate Professor, School of Art Sam Yates, Professor, School of Art John Friend, Associate Professor, Department of Classics Maura Lafferty, Associate Professor, Department of Classics […]
In fall 2022, we welcomed the following tenure-line faculty to the College of Arts and Sciences. Arts & Humanities Faculty Salvador Bartera, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics Jessica Westerhold, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics Jared-Jamal Alexander, Assistant Professor, Department of English Duygu Yildirim, Assistant Professor, Department of History Malgorzata Citko-DuPlantis, Assistant Professor, Department of World […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded prestigious NEH Fellowships to three faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Arts and Sciences. UT is one of just two universities to receive three NEH fellowships in 2023, a reflection of the high quality of work being conducted there in the humanities. The […]
