CCS students and faculty represented the department at the CAL in Action Showcase on March 7, 2024! Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges, Dr. Diana Coleman, and Dr. Gioia Woods set up and worked our table filled with swag and flyers with CCS majors Joce Dolezal and Ella Conner as well as CCS intern Colin Grosvenor. Dr. Woods also moderated the featured panel, Entangled Spaces: Past, Present, & Future with the CAL 2023-2024 Arts & Humanities Fellows, which included CCS Assistant Teaching… Read more
Faculty news
Regents’ Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer at Borders/Borderland and the Holocaust at UT in February
Dr. Björn Krondorfer, Regents’ Professor and Director of the Martin-Springer Institute, was awarded the invitation to participate in a 2-day seminar on “Borders/Borderlands and the Holocaust” at the University of Texas, Austin (February 18-19, 2024). Regionally organized by experts from the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M/San Antonio, it was supported by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University.
Join the College of Arts and Letters (and CCS) for the CAL in Action Showcase on March 7 at 5:30 p.m.
Join the College of Arts and Letters for an evening celebrating collaborative learning, impactful scholarship, creative activity, and community engagement at the first annual CAL in Action Showcase on March 7 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Ashurst Auditorium. During the first and final half hours of the event, faculty and students will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate some of the work that is contributing to the college’s academic, creative, and artistic footprint and outreach to the NAU &… Read more
Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Kent Linthicum named ASLE Scholar of the Month for February
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) recognized Assistant Teaching Professor of Humanities Dr. Kent Linthicum as their Scholar of the Month for February 2024. Learn more about Dr. Linthicum and his work in the environmental humanities in their feature here.
Professor Paul Donnelly presented at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin in October
Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Paul Donnelly presented a paper, “The Buddhist Goddess Kurukullā and her Rituals of Subjugation” at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin last month.
Abstract: The tantric Buddhist goddess Kurukullā is perhaps the most important of the tantric deities of subjugation (vaśya, vaśīkaraṇa). Kurukullā has… Read more
CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino gave two invited talks in Chicago last month
CCS Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Dr. Alexandra Carpino gave an invited lecture titled “Marketing Motherhood: Etruscan Case Studies” at Northern Illinois University on Oct. 11 and at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago on October 12, 2023. She discussed how one class of household artifacts – engraved bronze mirrors – depict… Read more
