Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, professor in the School of Journalism, and founder of Voces Oral History Center, shares her journey from growing up in Devine, Texas, to earning journalism BA and MA degrees at UT Austin, as well as a PhD from UNC, Chapel Hill. These and years of work as a journalist inform her inexhaustible drive to make heard the voices and stories of Latina/o/x agents of change.
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Into the COLAverse – Episode 19: Randy Lewis
Randy Lewis, professor and chair of American Studies Department, shares how East Texas roots and New Jersey upbringing led to BA then PhD degrees at UT Austin where, as scholar and creator, he’s been innovating and expanding multiple fields of inquiry, shedding new light on film, music, and urban studies as well as cultural histories of the Americas.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 18: Ashanté Reese
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.
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 12: Jossiana Arroyo-Martínez
Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez, professor in the departments of Spanish & Portuguese and African and African Diaspora Studies, takes us on a journey deep into how Latin American and Hispanophone Caribbean cultural traditions at once work within and against colonial legacies and its destructive race, sexuality, and gender stereotypes that continue to operate today in social media and big televisual events like the Superbowl.
Into the COLAverse – Episode 6: Jorge Pérez
Jorge Pérez, professor in Spanish and Portuguese and Peter T. Flawn Centennial Professor, talks about his work on films made in Spain during Franco’s dictatorship and the new wave of films made post-Franco regime, including especially how film and fashion cohere and begin to shape new sets of ideas, values, and beliefs construct cultural identities.