Ashanté Reese, recently promoted to associate professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, shares her journey from growing up in East Texas to Trinity University (BA), American University (PhD) to her innovative scholarly interventions in critical food and food justice studies, Black studies, and Black geographies. Along the way we learn of the significant work done for food sovereignty in Black communities across the country.
Humanities
Into the COLAverse – Episode 17: Scott Graham
Scott Graham, professor in the Department of Rhetoric & Writing, shares his journey from philosophy to rhetoric, bioscience, health practice, and AI. Along the way we learn about the importance of new models for health care practice and delivery (Tweetorials included) as well as the pros and cons of AI systems in our everyday lives.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 16: Samantha Pickette
Samantha Pickette, professor in Jewish Studies and Assistant Director to the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, shares how an early fascination with TV and literature her to become a scholar of representations of Jewishness, especially Jewish femininity in TV. Along the way, we learn about how today’s non-legacy TV increasingly represents the complexity of Jewishness as intersectional (race, gender, sexualities) identities.
Into the COLA-verse: Office Hours Session I: Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?
Join UT Profs Frederick Luis Aldama (English), Domino Perez (English), and Steven Mintz (History) as they discuss and deliberate the current state of literary studies and the humanities generally within and outside the university.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 13: Lars Hinrichs
Lars Hinrichs, professor in the department of English, invites us on a journey from the University of Freiburg to UT Austin and how language evolves (especially varieties of English) from within and shaped by different communities.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 8: David Sosa
David Sosa, professor in the department of Philosophy and the Louanne and Larry Temple Professorship in the Humanities, shares his journey as Cuban-American family in Providence Rhode Island and continuing legacy of studying philosophy, explaining the divisions between the different traditions and movements of philosophy including those that look to the cognitive sciences to understand more deeply our actions and behaviors in a world increasingly turned upside down.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 7: Bassam Sidiki
Bassam Sidiki, professor in the department of English, shares his journey from growing up in Karachi tohis scholarly work today focused on postcolonial studies, bioethics, and medical humanities. Along the way he shares with us new ways of understanding such beloved authors as Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Mark Twain, and so much more.