Department Archives: College of Arts and Humanities

UCF’s resident costume designer and her family are making masks for officers stationed at the COVID-19 testing site on campus.

Women’s and Gender Studies director M.C. Santana discusses the ERA and why you should care about its fate.

This year, 30 CAH faculty members received promotion or tenure to celebrate their successes.

UCF’s Learning Institute for Elders (LIFE) is honoring English professor Terry Thaxton for her work with the Literary Arts Partnership.

Faculty members from across the college are honored for the 2020 Founders’ Day Honors Convocation, which recognizes UCF faculty members and students from across disciplines for their academic achievements, contributions and tenures.

Celebrating Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” online with artist talks every Thursday throughout April via Zoom and virtual book clubs.

UCF English graduate Jaquira Díaz ’06 was named as one of the 10 winners of the 2020 Whiting Award for emerging writers, earning her a $50,000 prize. Her debut memoir, Ordinary Girls, is about her challenging childhood growing up in the projects of Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, and her coming of age.

We may all be at home, but our UCF artists are still creating! We’ve created a new site compiling the creative activities of UCF’s isolated artists for everyone to enjoy. Go Knights, Arts On!

Peter Telep, a senior instructor in the Department of English, talks about why nostalgic toys hold power over us.

Sarah Holland’s short film “Egghead & Twinkie” won first and Abiesel Baez and Kahlil Collazo’s “PLUGGED” won third in this year’s scholarship competition.