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Autumn 2023

Autumn 2023

Susan Williams
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Alumni and Friends,We’re well into autumn semester as I write — that energizing time when students are again packing the Oval, the Union, the libraries, and the classrooms and lounges in Denney…
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2023 Alumni Book Recommendations
Over the summer we asked our Department of English alumni to share the books they’ve been reading and the books on their to-be-read list. Check out the recommendations below! Christine Almeida…
Carlos Kelly González
Ready Player Juan: Latinidad in video games
Dr. Carlos Gabriel Kelly González has always been passionate about video games. He just never expected to be able to study them for a living, not until he…
Erin Bahl and Margaret Price
Erin Bahl and Margaret Price explore audio description
Consider this scene from a folktale: “Four animals sit in a circle in a grassy field: a donkey, a cat, a dog, and a rooster. A banner above them reads ‘Too old ... too weak ... too slow.’ The donkey…
Caleb González smiles next to a pillar bearing the seal of the vice-president of the United States
Caleb Gonzalez acknowledged by Vice President Kamala Harris
Earlier this year, PhD student Caleb Gonzalez wrote a letter to Vice President Kamala D. Harris about how his students in the Young Scholars Program used writing to examine topics related to K-12…