Pimone Triplett and Charles LaPorte discuss how the poetic form from Terrance Hayes' "The Golden Shovel" grew out of deeper history of race and gender in America to help us better contextualize the famous Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "We Real Cool."

Professor Diana Flores Ruíz comes to us from the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in film and media studies.  Her current book project explores the visual technologies (from cartography to biometrics) that have been used to draw and redraw the US-Mexican border, how they work to maintain settler colonial power relations, and how Latinx artists and activities have enacted visual forms of resistance.

A Classical Studies major is akin to taking your own hero’s journey through ancient Greece and Rome. Along the way you are guided by a contingent of sophic sages, the dedicated professors supporting your quest for knowledge, as you explore the language, culture, literature, and history of the ancient world. 

Professor Geoffrey Turnovsky (French and Italian Studies) discusses the value of the Digital Humanities with English professor Anna Preus.