Fri Sep 11
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Football League, retired history Professor Richard Crepeau’s book NFL Football: A History of America’s New National Pastime will be rereleased Monday in an expanded and updated edition. The revised book, first published in 2014, will have an additional 40 pages of information with new illustrations and appendixes. “The book is…
Fri Sep 11
The UCF Department of English is deeply saddened to announce that Dr. Patricia Angley passed away on September 4, 2020. Angley was a Senior Lecturer who joined the department in 1998; she was active in teaching, administration, student advising, and union work at UCF for the past 22 years. Angley earned her PhD at the…
Thu Sep 10
The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program from the U.S. Department of Education has awarded aâ¯two-yearâ¯grant toâ¯the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities. The program willâ¯fund aâ¯groupâ¯study to Argentina, led byâ¯Mariaâ¯C.â¯Santana,â¯director ofâ¯theâ¯UCFâ¯Women’s and Gender Studiesâ¯programâ¯andâ¯Maria Redmon,â¯senior instructor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Santanaâ¯and Redmonâ¯proposed a three-stage project including pre-departure,…
Tue Sep 8
As music professionals in Lakeland, Jessica (Wigert) ’07 and Jonathan Gautier ’06 ’09MAare used to working with musical artists of various backgrounds. So when a violinist from New York, who was visiting his father when travel shut down in Florida due to COVID-19, reached out to the couple about booking some time to work on material in Jonathan’s recording…
Thu Sep 3
The Russian edition of history professor Vladimir Solonari’s book Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi-Allied Romania was just released. The English edition was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2009 and remains sold out. The book was also published in Romania by POLIROM, a highly reputable press. Purifying the Nation is a provocative exploration of…
Wed Sep 2
In July when the Nicholson School of Communication and Media joined the College of Sciences in an academic realignment, six individuals opted to keep their positions in the College of Arts and Humanities. The six individuals and their respective departments are: Emily Johnson, Department of English Rudy McDaniel, Department of English Anastasia Salter, Department of…
Mon Aug 31
History professor Robert Cassanello actively engages students in primary document research in his new course, “History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.” The course is a featured case study on the Adam Matthew website, a digital publisher of unique primary source collections from archives around the world. Within the course design, Cassanello involves students…
Fri Aug 28
The purpose of the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Awards is to build sustainable models for arts and wellness innovation both across the community and UCF campus. Interdisciplinary collaboration and evidence based community impact will be recognized as guides for building sustainability. The Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Awards are two awards of…
Wed Aug 26
This fall, Theatre UCF students are bringing the theatre into your home. We are inviting audiences to see what they are creating through free online readings including a series of plays about social justice and a modern translation of a Shakespeare classic. The fall begins with a series of four plays highlighting the urgent push…
Wed Aug 26
Did you know that singers require special face masks fitted with extra room to allow for their mouth movements and projection, or that clear masks are best for teacher critique? The battle to protect and equip our students to combat the COVID-19 virus reminds us of Les Misérables! The School of Performing Arts is making sure…
Mon Aug 24
Dwight K. Lewis Jr., PhD, is the newest faculty member to join the Department of Philosophy at UCF. Lewis previously was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of South Florida while holding a Mellon Fellowship at Emory University in the James Weldon Johnson Institute…
Thu Aug 20
The Department of Writing and Rhetoric extends a warm UCF welcome to our new department chair, Dr. Sherry Rankins-Robertson! Dean Jeff Moore welcomed Dr. Sherry Rankins-Robertson with this message: “Dr. Rankins-Robertson comes to UCF from the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she has been a very…
Tue Aug 18
Brenna Maginness ’20, theatre design and technology alumna and BHC Scholar, served as a costume designer for UCF theatre productions during her time at UCF, and wrote an Honors Undergraduate Thesis on lesbian representation in theatre. She will be attending the University of the Arts in London to earn a master’s degree in fashion culture…
Thu Jul 30
UCF Alumnus Alexander Bornstein â09 has been composing music for television, film, concert halls and more since graduating from UCF. Bornstein’s next big project, Transformers: War for Cybertronis now streaming on Netflix. We caught up with him to see what it was like creating the music for the new animated series. Read our Q&A with Bornstein from 2018. What was…
Thu Jul 30
Jason Fronczek ’16 spent more than four years in prison, where he focused on bettering himself through reading. On Sunday, he graduates with an MFA. The art teacher is telling his students to scribble. He doesn’t want to see any straight lines. “I knew I had to counter my incarceration with something positive. Education would…
Wed Jul 29
Which would make you happier: more time or more money? Most people want both and say they’d be happier if they had both. However, most of us spend the majority of our time chasing money and sacrificing our experiences and relationships in the quest for financial security. Our consumer-driven economy supports this notion that more…
Fri Jul 24
Orlando Opera and UCF Professor Stella Sung today were awarded a prestigious grant to the tune of $10,000 as part of Opera America’s national program to promote female composers of the genre. Nine teams of opera companies and composers around the country shared in Opera America’s $100,000 announcement. Sung, also director of UCF’s Center for Research…
Thu Jul 23
As protests and demonstrations spread around the country in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, UCF students have the opportunity to enroll in a variety of courses that can help them better understand the calls for equality, reform and justice. These 13 courses are a sampling of what is offered at UCF this fall…
Thu Jul 23
M.C. Santana has been assigned as Discipline Coordinator for Women’s and Gender Studies programs across the state of Florida. The Department of Education’s Statewide Course Numbering System oversees the assignment of course numbers to all courses in Florida colleges and universities. Santana will work with the Department of Education in Florida to assign new and revised…
Mon Jul 20
As part of the National Council for History Education (NCHE) Summer Professional Learning Series, Luis MartÃnez-Fernández, professor of history, will host a webinar on “Slavery and Resistance in the Atlantic World” on July 28. MartÃnez-Fernández’s webinar will explore African slavery as an Atlantic-wide phenomenon that began in Hispaniola in 1502 and was finally abolished in Brazil in 1888. It…