The University of Central Oklahoma’s College of Liberal Arts hosts the 35th Annual Symposium on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, offering students the opportunity to present their exemplary writing and research and to participate in other academic and creative activities. This long-standing tradition is one of the most important and visible celebrations of the creativity and […]
The UCO College of Liberal Arts honored its exceptional students at the 2022 Honors and Awards Ceremony on April 29 at the UCO College of Liberal Arts South Wing Lecture Hall. Letter from the Interim Dean It is one of my greatest privileges as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts to welcome […]
Theresa Vaughan is the assistant dean and a professor of humanities in the UCO College of Liberal Arts. Where are you from? I was born in Detroit, MI. My grandparents were immigrants from Ireland who came to work in the auto factories. About half of my male relatives and a few female relatives over the […]
Dr. Susan Spencer and English education major Anh Dinh spent four weeks at the East-West Institute on the University of Hawai’i at Manoa campus this past summer, attending a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Buddhist East Asia: The Interplay of Religion, the Arts and Politics. The Institute included 25 university and college […]
Between July 16 and 30, 2017, five faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts attended an interdisciplinary faculty work shop sponsored by the Undergraduate International Studies Foreign Language (UISFL) program funded by the Department of Education at the East West Center on the campus of the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Dr. Peter Hershock, director of […]
Dr. Sarah Kyle received a Franklin grant from the American Philosophical Society to support archival research in Venice during her sabbatical in the 2017-18 academic year. Additionally, in early April, Dr. Kyle presented her recent research in a paper entitled “An Experiment in the Collection of Knowledge: the Roccabonella Herbal as ‘Laboratory’” at the Renaissance […]
Dr. Eva Dadlez presented her paper “Kitsch and Bullshit as Cases of Aesthetic and Epistemic Bad Faith” at the American Society for Aesthetics’ Eastern Division meeting (Philadelphia, PA. 4/17). She also delivered her paper “The Practical Advantages of Pride and the Risks of Humility” at the Omaha Emotion Workshop (University of Omaha. Omaha, NE. 4/17), […]
