Department Archives: College of Arts and Humanities

After 15 years of advocacy, Mike Partain ’21MA helped secure the passage of the PACT Act, which will allow Marines and their families — including the history alum — who were exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune to seek damages.

Students are encouraged to attend welcome events throughout the first week, meet with faculty and other students, and engage with academic resources.

Students from all majors are invited to join the new Arts Ambassador program, which seeks to bring more attention to UCF’s visual arts, theatre and music activities. The first meeting is on Monday, August 22 at 6 p.m. in Studio One of the Performing Arts Center-Theatre (building 119).

Virginia Perwin, a recent Summer ’22 MA graduate, understands the importance of education. That’s why she’s chosen to earn her second master’s degree in TESOL, 60 years after earning her bachelor’s.

For National Book Lovers Day 2022, CAH alumni Samantha Markum ’12, Holly A. Pinheiro ’08 and Laurie Uttich ’09MFA spoke about their latest books and how their UCF education impacted their lives.

The College of Arts and Humanities extends a welcome to new and familiar faces during the transition of some critical administrative and staff roles.

Michael Wainstein, director of the UCF School of Performing Arts, has been reappointed for a second five-year term.

With a variety of plays and musicals ranging from Shakespeare to bluegrass, Theatre UCF’s 2022-23 season looks at the relationship between individuals and institutions, exploring themes of power structures, corruption and social systems, as well as lighter moments of comedy and love.

The UCF Art Gallery and Rollins Museum of Art come together for “Pathways 2022: The Carlos Malamud Prize” to highlight six aspiring artists. Artworks by all finalists will be shown at both venues until Sept. 4, 2022.

Jamie Poissant teaches undergraduate and graduate classes while advising the Graduate Writers Association and PARCELS, the UCF MFA student reading series. The most rewarding part of his job as an educator is seeing students grow, whether watching a graduate student sign a book contract with a major publisher or watching a student learn to differentiate between types of narrators.