Violinist Tami Lee Hughes conceived, created and performs the innovative program featuring African-American artists through music, poetry and visual images.
Heretics, Hiking, Helping the Environment: Spring courses veer off beaten path
Courses set for Spring Semester take on female heretics, backpacking, cleaning the environment and ecofeminism
Noted author delivers keynote address at SouthWord Lit Festival
Novelist, poet and environmental activist Wendell Berry was the keynote speaker at the SouthWord Lit Festival.
Renowned Southern writers return to campus for SouthWord Literary Festival
Kentucky native Wendell Berry will deliver the keynote address for SouthWord, a two-day literary feast. Southern writers and connoisseurs will converge on campus for the conference’s first day, including the keynote.
An Evening with Biographer James McGrath Morris
James McGrath Morris’ recent book The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War details the tortured friendship between the two authors.
MOCForward: Topics, including touchy ones, discussed at Diversity & Inclusion conference
Multiple aspects of diversity and inclusion—some on touchy topics—were presented at the inaugural Moving Our Campus (MOC) Forward: An Inclusive Excellence Conference
English professor heads to Zimbabwe on Fulbright Fellowship
This past spring, Dr. James Arnett, Assistant Professor of English, landed in Zimbabwe to start his journey as a Fulbright scholar.
Hidden Gems, Femme Not-So Fatale, Southern by Birth: Unique courses in fall semester
Got all your “have-to” classes lined up for fall semester and now you’re looking for something that’s more “want-to”?
Student publishes first book in planned trilogy
When Hannah Rials was 12 years old, she woke up from a dream about a teenage vampire. Instead of rolling over and going back to bed, she got up and started writing. Eight years later, those late night writings are now a published novel called Ascension.
Award-winning poet Nikky Finney in Chattanooga
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney is coming to town.