At the beginning of the Fall 2011 semester, we met with all of the new faculty hires in the College of Arts and Sciences. This series of podcasts introduces them and their research interests. Julia Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of English. Johnson focuses on poetry, as a subject of study as well as a personal pursuit. Her latest volume of poems will be published in the fall.
Adam Banks was recently featured on KET to talk about his academic interests and concerns for minorities in the Digital Age.
Dr. Vershawn Young discusses Miriam Thaggert's Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance with the author.
For more of Dr. Young's podcast interviews with scholars of African American cultural and literary studies visit the website for New Books in African American Studies: http://newbooksinafroamstudies.com/
The University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences has appointed new chairs to many of its departments for the 2011-2012 year.
Award honors Walker's mother; event is free & open to public.
At age seven, Peyton Fouts,’06, wanted to change the world. And he’s been working toward that goal since.
At that young age, he saw a girl on TV carrying one brother and dragging another (who was dead) by the hand in the sand. “She had been orphaned by AIDS and my heart broke. I knew I wanted to change their circumstances and I just kept seeing people around the world who needed help.”
English Ph.D. Student
English Ph.D Student
Anyone who has ever had doubts about majoring in English – with questions about job prospects or a well-defined career path – should talk to Andrew Crown-Weber.
English Ph.D. Student
