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This post was written by Heather Belnap, Comparative Arts and Letters, Humanities Center Faculty Fellow In my junior year of university, I “got woke” to feminism. And it was an aptly-titled text, Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel The Awakening, assigned in an undergraduate humanities critical theory course, that did it. Until then, feminism was to me …
This post was written by Carlee Schmidt Reber, HC Student Fellow My college experience could be summed up in a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” While I hope Holmes’ mantra inspires me to seek new knowledge for the rest of my life, …
The new year is full of possibilities (exciting) and unknowns (scary). 2018 has come barreling through the gates at the heels of an incredibly eventful and unpredictable year. 2017 was … well, it was something. With a president at the helm unlike any we have ever seen, multiple global tragedies including Manchester, London, New York, …
This post was written by Benjamin Jacob, HC Student Fellow Last summer, my family embarked on a quest to see several paintings by Johannes Vermeer that we had not yet seen. Led by my intrepid mother, we traveled to museums in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Dresden specifically to see these Dutch gems. Unfortunately for our purposes, …
This post was written by Mark Davies, HC Fellow, Department of Linguistics and English Language The College of Humanities has faculty from across a wide range of disciplines, including literary studies, cultural studies, linguistics, and language pedagogy. In addition to the wide range of topics covered by faculty in these different fields, there are also …
This post was written by Carlee Schmidt Reber, Humanities Center Student Fellow We’ve all had one of those hodge-podge dreams where the book, TV series, and movie you recently watched mix themselves into a tangled narrative in which you are centrally involved. It’s always about ten minutes after I wake up, getting ready in the …
This blog post features the work of Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Department of English This week, the Humanities Center is pleased to feature the work of Leslee Thorne-Murphy. Over the last decade, Dr. Thorne-Murphy’s work on Victorian short fiction has become an invaluable resource to scholars interested in Victorian literature and those interested more broadly in short fiction. …
This post was written by Rob McFarland, HC Faculty Fellow, BYU Department of German and Russian June of 1980. We left suburban Glendora late in the afternoon, riding on the Foothill Freeway in a Chevy van with a bubble window and air-brushed beach scenes on the sides. I was a new deacon, and this was …
This post was written by Holly Boud, Humanities Center Intern This weekend I went to the Utah Shakespeare Festival for my very first time. I have lived in Utah most of my life, and somehow have never made it down, which is a pity because it is an incredible production! My friend and I attended …
This post was written by Julie Allen, HC Faculty Fellow, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters I spent a weekend in Chicago recently at a conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Danish American Heritage Society. The society was founded in a living room in Oregon in 1977 as a response to the cultural heritage …