Jeremi Suri: How to Make America Great Again
In a world rife with political and economic turmoil, President Obama’s re-election campaign has been put to the test. From the rolling economic crisis in Europe, to the intensifying conflict in Syria,...
View ArticleGovernment Professor Wins Major Grant to Curb Violence, Urge Diplomacy in Egypt
Jason Brownlee, associate professor in the Departments of Government and Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, has received a $109,484 grant to examine peace-building efforts in...
View Article“Swamplandia!” Author to Speak at Plan II Honors Event
Best-selling author Karen Russell will come to campus on Thursday, Sept. 27 to talk about her novel “Swmaplandia!” and other literary works. The event, hosted by the Plan II Honors Program, will be...
View ArticleNew Writers Project Launches Touring Authors Series at BookPeople
This October, the English department’s Master of Fine Arts program, now known as The New Writers Project, is kicking off a New Writers Tour featuring book talks by up-and-coming writers at BookPeople....
View ArticleA Q&A with Kathleen Marie Higgins, Author of “The Music Between Us”
From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In “The Music between Us: Is Music a...
View ArticlePsychology Professor James Pennebaker Wins $10,000 Hamilton Book Award
James Pennebaker, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, won the $10,000 grand prize at the Hamilton Book Awards for his book, “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us”...
View ArticleFormer Attorney General Ramsey Clark to present “From Civil Rights to Human...
Attorney General Clark and President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967. Ramsey Clark (Plan II, ’49), who served as attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson, will present a talk titled “From Civil...
View ArticleRenowned Poets Read and Discuss their Works at Spanish an Portuguese Symposium
Posted by Molly Wahlberg, College of Liberal Arts “Extrañeza, Extranjería, Migración / Estrangement, Foreignness, Migration,” a graduate seminar in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese that...
View ArticleAuthor and Scholar, Elaine Scarry, Examines Beauty and Fairness
Harvard University professor and award-winning author, Elaine Scarry, will share insight into how society thinks and talks about beauty and social justice at an event hosted by the Humanities...
View ArticleQ&A: Professor and Poet Kurt Heinzelman on Adelaide Writer’s Week
Kurt Heinzelman, English professor, founding co-editor of The Poetry Miscellany and advisor and editor-at-large for Bat City Review, has been publishing poetry for 30 years in such journals as Poetry,...
View ArticleHistory Professor Wins Prestigious Book Award for ‘In Search of the Amazon’
This post, authored by Susanna Sharpe, first appeared on the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) website. History Professor Seth Garfiel received the prestigious...
View ArticleNew Historical Novel by Former UT English Professor to Release this Fall
Former UT Austin fiction writing and modern literature professor Elizabeth Harris will be releasing a novel Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman (Gival Press) this fall. The historical novel, scheduled to...
View ArticleFaculty Authors Showcase their Works at the 20th Annual Texas Book Festival
Bookworms, foodies, artists and scholars will partake in an annual rite of fall here in Austin: The Texas Book Festival! This Texas-size literary event will take place in and around the State Capitol...
View ArticleFaculty Book Talk: ‘The Price for Their Pound of Flesh’
Tonight Daina Berry, professor of history and African and African Diaspora Studies, will discuss her book “The Price for Their Pound of Flesh” (Beacon Press, ’17) at 6 p.m. in the Gordon-White...
View ArticleLatin American Studies Alumnus Chronicles Peace Corps Journey in ‘Different...
As graduation looms right around the corner, many soon-to-be UT alums will be traveling far and wide on missions to change the world. From the Peace Corps to Teach for America, our jet-setting...
View ArticleGermanic Studies Professor Discusses “Dopers in Uniform” at Texas Book Festival
Since 1995, the Texas Book Festival has connected Texas authors with readers through literary panels and readings, book signings, demonstrations, live music, family fun and local eats. This year at the...
View ArticleA Shoemaker’s Dilemma: Q&A with UT Alum and Author Spencer Wise
Set in contemporary South China, The Emperor of Shoes is about a young Jewish Bostonian preparing to take over his family’s shoe business. But he ends up falling in love with a factory worker who may...
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