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Curriculum expert to deliver talk
Apr. 6, 2023—The Future of the A&S Curriculum Committee will host curriculum expert and author Roosevelt Montás for a talk and Q&A session on Friday, April 14, at 3 p.m. in Alumni Hall, room 201. The topic of discussion aligns with the author’s latest book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They...
inter+SECTIONS: visual art + social justice
Mar. 24, 2023—Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of art and architecture, discusses the work of Elizabeth Catlett, an African American printmaker and sculptor. VanDiver looks at how art functions not only as a lens into society, but also as a cultural vehicle between the movement and the museum.
Cecil Jones, Jr., influential emeritus theatre professor, has died
Mar. 23, 2023—Cecil Jones, Jr., professor of theatre, emeritus, who taught at Vanderbilt for 29 years, died on March 18 in Nashville. He was 92. Born in Nashville, he completed his undergraduate education at Vanderbilt, graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1951. He went on to earn his master’s degree from Northwestern University in 1952 and...
A&S faculty lead comprehensive, collaborative overhaul of undergraduate curriculum
Mar. 20, 2023—Extensive outreach and fact-finding from Vanderbilt community and beyond shape new curriculum design NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A significant faculty-led effort to redesign the aged College of Arts & Science undergraduate curriculum is nearing completion, aiming to provide a more integrated, inspiring, and enduring program of study for all A&S students. The overhaul is the first...
Unsung Stories: Revealing the History of Black Country Music
Mar. 2, 2023—Alice Randall, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and writer-in-residence of African American and Diaspora Studies, discusses the untold stories of Black country music in Nashville and its roots that stretch back more than 100 years ago.
Wollaeger, professor emeritus and modernist scholar, has died
Mar. 1, 2023—Mark Wollaeger, a professor of English, emeritus, former director of graduate studies in English, died on his birthday, February 19. He was 66. Wollaeger earned a bachelor of arts from Stanford University in 1979, and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1986. He taught at Yale from 1986-1994, at which point he was...
High school classmates in Jamaica unexpectedly reunite nearly 20 years later as Vanderbilt faculty
Feb. 28, 2023—In 2004, a group of students attended Immaculate Conception High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Kingston, Jamaica. In August 2022, nearly 20 years later, two of those students reunited for the first time, but not at a high school reunion, as one might expect. They ran into each other in Nashville, TN at a...
inter+SECTIONS: disability + built environment with Aimi Hamraie
Feb. 24, 2023—Aimi Hamraie, associate professor of medicine, health, and society, discusses opportunities to make urban environments more equitable and accessible for disabled individuals. Hamraie, whose work focuses on disability and the built environment, offers solutions for a more accessible future for all.
Newly formed Oxford-Vanderbilt Gender, Race, and Political Theory Project meets
Feb. 14, 2023—A group of scholars who work at the intersection of gender and race in the discipline of political theory recently convened for the first time as part of the new Oxford-Vanderbilt Gender, Race, and Political Theory Project. The project is being co-convened by Shatema Threadcraft, associate professor of gender and sexuality studies, and Oxford’s Sophie...