Our latest episode of Office Hours is here! In this session, Professors Brenna Byrd and Anastasia Curwood join us to discuss their teaching, research, and interests. Professor Byrd leads off with a discussion of German culture and Turkish-German hip-hop while Professor Curwood explores her recent research regarding Shirley Chisholm. The two professors discover their common interests -- forms of social resistance, feminism, language, and identity and discuss them from two very different…
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The University of Kentucky has been playing host to Alan McKendrick, a Scottish playwright, stage director, and translator, as he works with students during a compressed, three-week course. Within the course, McKendrick and the students are working to translate and adapt a popular German play into American English with a Kentuckian twist. In this podcast, we speak to McKendrick about his previous work, the difficulties of adapting and translating plays, and the dynamics of the compressed course.
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The Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Cultures is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Jianjun He to its faculty! This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and Sciences in the Fall 2014 semester.
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Office Hours triumphantly returns! In this thrilling installment, we talk with Matthew Godbey from English and Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby from MCL. Talking points include the secret origins and evolution of the vampire, the cultural renaissance of the zombie narrative, and a bit about local events concerning the Winchester mural.
Office Hours is a joint production of 88.1 WRFL and The College of Arts & Sciences, which airs live on WRFL every Wednesday from 2-3 PM. …
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The Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Cultures is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Brenna Byrd to its faculty! This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall 2014 semester.
This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.
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The Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is excited to welcome Associate Professor Molly Thomasy Blasing to its faculty!
This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and…
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The Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures excited to welcome Assistant Professor Julie Human to its faculty!
This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall…
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The Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Ioana Larco to its faculty!
This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall 2014 semester.
This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.
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WUKY @ 91.3 will broadcast a short interview regarding Professor Ruder's seminar on the Soviet Gulag on Friday, Aug. 29, at 8:35 am and 5:45 pm. You may listen to the full-length podcast here.
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Latin is often thought of as an honorable and intellectual pursuit rather than as an actual language. However, the University of Kentucky's Latin Studies Program is changing this perception as it works to teach students how to read, write, and speak Latin. In this podcast, Leni Leite, a visiting scholar, discusses the uniqueness of…
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