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Welcome to the June 2024 Round Up of the Fulbright REVIEW Blog
As we head deeper into this beautiful summer, I hope you and yours are thriving! Here at our Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, each new season typically brings exciting transitions, and this summer is no exception. Because it’s time to welcome our new dean,...
World Languages Department, Community Commemorate Dr. Hope L. Christiansen
On Tuesday, June 4, Dr. Hope L. Christiansen of the World Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department passed away. During her time at the U of A, Christiansen scripted a rich, incredible career in every aspect possible. She joined the WLLC Department on Aug. 20,...
Kendyl Link Named Undergraduate Winner of Felix Christopher McKean Memorial Award
The Program in Creative Writing and Translation is pleased to announce that Kendyl Link has been awarded the undergraduate Felix Christopher McKean Memorial Award. Link is a current senior from Grapevine, Texas. She is involved in University Programs and Greek Life on...
Inaugural Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk Anticipates First Novel
Nigerian author and inaugural Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk Fellow Uchenna Awoke is less than a month away from his prestigious debut as a novelist. Although the writer has published short stories in various journals, his first book, The Liquid Eye of a Moon,...
U of A Historian Justin Gage Wins Smithsonian Book Award
Justin Gage, assistant professor of history, was awarded the Smithsonian National Postal Museum's Professional Scholarship Prize for his book, We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance. The biennial prize recognizes...
Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities Students Join to Discuss Serious Games
At the end of the spring semester, two courses — WLLC 398V Videogames and Human Agency and JWST 470/570V Special Topics in Jewish Studies: How Did the Holocaust Affect...? — held a joint class meeting to discuss how Germany's Nazi past has affected the arts, primarily...