College of Arts & Sciences

Event    Tuesday, February 25, 2025
The O'Connor Institute is continuing the Inaugural Southern Gothic Lectures Series! Join us for this interdisciplinary series of discussions among the fields of literature, environmental studies and southern studies.Teresa A. Goddu is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She's the author of Gothic America: Narrative, History and Nation (Columbia University Press) and Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her...
Announcement    Wednesday, January 29, 2025
The O'Connor Institute is kicking off the Inaugural Southern Gothic Lectures Series! Join us for this interdisciplinary series of discussions among the fields of literature, environmental studies and southern studies.Sara L. Crosby hails from an island off the coast of Louisiana. She's a professor of English at The Ohio State University at Marion where she teaches classes on everything from early American literature to pop culture to environmental writing. She has authored two monographs...
Event    Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The O'Connor Institute is kicking off the Inaugural Southern Gothic Lectures Series! Join us for this interdisciplinary series of discussions among the fields of literature, environmental studies and southern studies.Sara L. Crosby hails from an island off the coast of Louisiana. She's a professor of English at The Ohio State University at Marion where she teaches classes on everything from early American literature to pop culture to environmental writing. She has authored two monographs...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Creative writing faculty member Dr. Chika Unigwe was an invited guest at the recently concluded Sharjah Festival of African Literature in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She was on a panel on how to create compelling characters in fiction. Other invited guests at the festival included two Nobel Laureates in Literature: Wole Soyinka (1986) and Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021).The festival ran from 1/24/2025 to 1/27/2025.
Announcement    Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Department of Theatre & Dance in collaboration with the National Jewish Theatre Foundation Holocaust Theatre International Initiative invites you to a staged reading of Vessels by Kim Yaged.  Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m.Black Box Theater
Event    Friday, January 31, 2025
The Department of Theatre & Dance in collaboration with the National Jewish Theatre Foundation Holocaust Theatre International Initiative invites you to a staged reading of Vessels by Kim Yaged.  Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m.Black Box Theater
Announcement    Monday, January 27, 2025
Please join us Wednesday, Jan. 29 in Russell Library room 241 from 12 until 12:50 p.m. for this week's Times Talk facilitated by Dr. Harold Mock, assistant professor of History and director of Leadership Programs on "U.S. Foreign Policy: What Should We Expect in the New Administration?"The following article may be referred to during the discussion:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/world/europe/trump-foreign-policy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE4.8HLF.ILikkUxRO3uo&smid=url-share.Times...
Event    Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Please join us Wednesday, Jan. 29 in Russell Library room 241 from 12 until 12:50 p.m. for this week's Times Talk facilitated by Dr. Harold Mock, assistant professor of History and director of Leadership Programs on "U.S. Foreign Policy: What Should We Expect in the New Administration?"The following article may be referred to during the discussion:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/world/europe/trump-foreign-policy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE4.8HLF.ILikkUxRO3uo&smid=url-share.Times...
Announcement    Friday, January 24, 2025
Creative Writing faculty member Peter Selgin is launching his novel, A Boy's Guide to Outer Space, Jan. 28 from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room.As a testament to its beauty, the novel is a finalist for the Townsend Prize, a biennial award honoring excellence in literary fiction by Georgia authors since 1982. Previous winners include Alice Walker (1984) and Ha Jin (2002). Please come out and support Peter! MFA students Tulasi Acharya and Michael Sevick...