The Great Barrier Reef May Term program combines natural wonder and policy studies| lifeandletters.la.utexas.edu
The Great Barrier Reef May Term program combines natural wonder and policy studies| Life & Letters Magazine
You probably know the signs of hoarding: detritus in the yard or driveway, curtains or blinds pushed up against the windows. You may even have a hoarder in your family. But according to assistant professor of Italian studies Rebecca Falkoff, what you don’t know about hoarding is, well, a lot of stuff.| Life & Letters Magazine
COLA staff member Michelle Harris on writing her way to a second career as a novelist| Life & Letters Magazine
Economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso on falling birth rates, global depopulation, and what comes next| Life & Letters Magazine
Thucydides on the weaponization of language| Life & Letters Magazine
Janet Davis on how animals tell the story of American development| Life & Letters Magazine
How can we get more students to choose a liberal arts degree?| Life & Letters Magazine
Don’t let the J.D. fool you: Mónica Jiménez didn’t start her education wanting to study law. As an undergraduate classics major at Yale, many of her friends and classmates knew they had futures in the legal field. But Jiménez — now an assistant professor of African and African diaspora studies at UT Austin — was far more interested in archaeology than in modern-day courts.| Life & Letters Magazine
A combined interest in the humanities and science — and a lifelong commitment to helping those most in need — has guided Kimberley Monday's life and celebrated career| Life & Letters Magazine
Montserrat Rocha got her internship at the Texas Capitol the old-fashioned way — and wants other students to follow her example| Life & Letters Magazine
A decade ago, when Iván Chaar López first began researching drones, his Tumblr webpage served as a kind of makeshift digital archive filled with images, articles, reports, and videos he came across online. Some were cheerful depictions of drones delivering pizzas and presents, but a few more sobering pieces detailed drone strikes and deployment for surveillance in the Global War on Terrorism. The striking contrast between the two aesthetics would ultimately prove to be an impetus for his wo...| Life & Letters Magazine
Brian Hurley’s first exposure to Japanese studies, as a kid in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri, was somewhat serendipitous. When he was in junior high school, a local summer program offered a six-week Japanese language class, taught by a university student. “One thing about growing up in a college town is you’re exposed to folks who are studying all sorts of things,” he says. “I thought, ‘Oh, that sounds interesting.’ So I went.” He continued studying the language in high s...| Life & Letters Magazine
Jennifer Wilks began her newest book project with a seemingly simple question: “Why are there so many adaptations of Carmen set in African diasporic contexts?”| Life & Letters Magazine
If classicist Andrew M. Riggsby had to give a speech about his dog Elmer — an extensive rousing one that he’d need to recall without effort or external aid — he would first visualize the strip mall near where he lives. | Life & Letters Magazine