College of Liberal Arts
Mar 23, 2026
Professor’s latest poetry collection uses old texts to create new messages
Pages of dwindling brown imposed with black and white imagery revolve on a screen in the Harry Ransom Center: ink lungs blossoming with air, arms outstretched in perennial movement and…
Sep 29, 2025
Swifties, Trekkies and other devotees unite in UT class ‘Rhetoric of Fandom’
What does it mean for someone to be a Longhorn? Can it be defined by the clothes they wear or how many football games they’ve been to? Are you a…
Sep 29, 2025
For coordinator Susanna Sharpe, music is yet another way of making connections
On a quiet street tucked away in Austin, the lawn outside Susanna Sharpe’s home comes alive with the tuning of instruments and the chatter of neighbors settling in with fold-up…
Sep 29, 2025
LAITS staff members work together on and off campus
Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services offers a wide range of assistance and opportunities for technology support, promotional content and educational materials. For Kayla Galang and Will Kurzner, LAITS also helped…
Sep 29, 2025
Psychologist David Yeager explains how adults can best get through to young people
As a kid, David Yeager never really enjoyed school. “I just had this feeling teachers didn’t like me. I felt like I was too energetic and asked a million questions,”…
Mar 21, 2025
Michener Center director’s novel pictures Waco tragedy through eyes of star-crossed young lovers
Bret Anthony Johnston has now published three books, including his recent “We Burn Daylight,” a reimagining of “Romeo and Juliet” set during the 1993 Branch Davidian siege near Waco. But…
Aug 31, 2024
Literature (Taylor’s Version): English professor takes class into new eras with music from Taylor Swift
lizabeth Scala, an English professor in the College of Liberal Arts, considers herself a medievalist. She has taught about pre-Shakespearean English poetry and manuscripts studies, with a focus on Geoffrey…
Aug 30, 2024
JapanLab students learn through game development
The year is sometime between 1945 and 1952. Japan is under U.S. occupation. A new bureaucrat has been appointed as a censor, and already he has a complaint. A woman…
Aug 29, 2024
Professor finds strength in collaboration while editing sociology book ‘Portraits of Persistence’
Picture the stereotypical academic working on a book. Long hours of solitude, turning research into words on a page. Publish or perish. But in “Portraits of Persistence: Inequality and Hope…
Apr 21, 2024
Storytelling in Spanish: Professor brings students’ creative voices to a wider audience with book ‘Contar Historias’
In the city of Quito, Ecuador, a young girl wrote poetry in the bedroom of her home. Her mother would collect these poems, and the girl would recite them at…
Dec 05, 2023
The Center for Asian American Studies opens a food pantry offering ready-to-eat staples
Professor Arnold Jin has a habit of feeding his students. He began teaching at the Center for Asian American Studies in the fall of 2020, during the thick of the…