Arts & Humanities

Burnett Joins Denbo Center as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs

UT Alumna Katharine Burnett joins Denbo Center to help grow research and public-facing programs for humanities and the arts. Katharine Burnett will join the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts in July as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs, a role central to Denbo’s future growth. In this role, she will help support the center’s…
History Professor Receives Humboldt Research Award

History Professor Charles Sanft will spend the 2025-2026 academic year in Germany, focusing on his research into premodern Chinese manuscripts with the support of a Humboldt Research Award. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation makes up to 100 awards each year to honor internationally leading scholars from all disciplines for their work. Although the award does…
The Future of Medieval Studies

The Symposium on AI in the Humanities and Social Sciences will bring together researchers and faculty from across disciplines to share groundbreaking techniques and technology for the use of artificial intelligence in higher education. “Collaborating across disciplines in arts and sciences is essential for teaching and research using AI, as I hope our event will…
Human Connections through Digital Space

Digital tools help build human connections and learning through UT’s collaborative Digital Project Cultivator. The Digital Project Cultivator (DPC) is a collaboration between UT Libraries and the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities program within the College of Arts and Sciences. It offers participating faculty access to the Hodges Library’s Virtual Reality (VR) Lab to enable and advance…
Annual Awards Recognize Excellence in Arts & Sciences

Faculty Honored at the Annual College of Arts and Sciences Convocation The College of Arts and Sciences hosted its annual awards ceremony on Monday, March 31, 2025, at the UT Conference Center in downtown Knoxville. The annual ceremony honors faculty members in all areas of the college’s mission, selected by their colleagues as representatives of…
Symposium Features Undergraduate Research

The Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium (ASUReS) provides a venue for undergraduate students across all disciplines in the college to showcase their research and creative achievements in individual or group projects or their contributions to class capstone projects. ASUReS, pronounced “azures,” offers an opportunity for research Vols to gain experience in delivering professional presentations…
Poetry, Politics, Plague, and More

Students from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, hosted undergraduates from more than a dozen other colleges and presented their own papers during the 13th Annual Tennessee Undergraduate Classics Research Conference in March. “This conference is a competitive event featuring outstanding undergraduate research from across the country,” said Assistant Professor Jessica Westerhold, faculty sponsor from the…
Vols Make International Art Connection

Malaysian artists share their creative community with UT artists during Big Ears Festival. Within the Big Ears Festival schedule, Pangrok Sulap plans to conduct printing sessions, open to the public, in the South Garden of the Knoxville Museum of Art during performance intermissions in the museum’s Ann and Steve Bailey Great Hall. Big Ears Festival…
Big Ears Festival Opens Students’ Eyes

Don’t Miss This Join our students on March 27 and 28 as they take over the College of Arts and Sciences Instagram Story to share their Big Ears Festival experience. Follow us at @artssciencesut for live updates and photos from the event! For a group of undergraduates at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the Big…
Video Games Offer New View for Religious Studies

The study of religion is taking some students to the gaming lab at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, allowing them to simulate field work and actively engage with questions about mythological narratives, transformations, and more. For 20 students enrolled in the first offering of Religious Studies 310 Religion and Gameworlds, the week starts with a…