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The revolutionary research done in the humanities looks even cooler in a lab coat. Dr. Brian Croxall teaches his students the importance of their research by helping them look and feel the part.
The Office of Digital Humanities helps Amy Johnson transcribe nearly 18,000 of her father’s Peanuts comic strips for her undergraduate- and master’s-level research.
Award-winning poet and novelist Jimmy Baca draws on experiences from his troubled youth and time in prison to fuel his impassioned writing.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition is the academic equivalent of an all-out sprint—one which puts students’ scholarly and oratory skills to the test.
Author Karan Mahajan explored how he writes characters that navigate worlds plagued with complex, unresolvable issues at the English Reading Series presentation held on January 21, 2022.
BYU College of Humanities Language Assessment Coordinator Dave Nielsen received the Patriot award from the United States Department of Defense on February 4, 2022. The award is presented to employers and supervisors nominated by Service members of the National Guard Reserve for going above and beyond to directly support the employed Service member and their family.
The 2021 recipient of the annual Barker Lectureship highlighted the complex ins and outs of proper discourse between nobility in 17th-century Spain.
The writings of silenced women are being recovered and magnified by Drs. Halling and Hegstrom in a remarkable new database.
BYU has so many wonderful alumni and emeriti who have served the community; it would be impossible to recognize everyone. But from time to time, we recognize a few individuals who have lived particularly exemplary lives of service, mentorship, and impact. Dave Wolverton (Farland) was such an individual—not just to the Latter-day Saint writing community but to any aspiring writer—and is worthy of mentioning as an example to us all.
Authors learned how to bring their fiction and nonfiction writing to life at the Latter-day Saint Publishing and Media Association 2021 Conference.
Bonnie L. Oscarson gave the 2021 Honored Alumni Lecture for the BYU College of Humanities.