How do we spend our time in the classroom talking about things that exist merely on a screen, when there are so many other issues in the world that require much more urgent attention? This has perhaps been my biggest struggle with my liberal arts education for the past four years, especially as a film…Continue Reading Listening to the Hierarchy of Otherness: Analyzing Fembots’ Accents in “Her”, “Ex Machina,” and “Blade Runner 2049” by Sophie Pu

Birthdays are special in my home. We are four people but we only celebrate two birthdays, as my sister and I are twins and my parents were born just one day apart. Every year we gather only twice, with a cake and candles, to celebrate with the Doerre Torres family special: “Happy Birthday” sung in…Continue Reading Sounding American by Isabelle Doerre Torres

During the Spring 2019 semester, I submitted this as a weekly assignment for my class called Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Professor Cobham-Sanders. I remember being ecstatic about that week’s assignment as it was open-ended. Revisiting these words and reading my artwork’s title “a few of my favorite things,” I have tried to piece together…Continue Reading 20 Words that Painted My World, by Clara (Chae Young) Seo

No matter how hard I try, I can’t remember how teachers said my name in Korea. I know that it didn’t matter. Back then, there was just one way to say my name: 서연.  When I was seven years old, my family moved to Falmouth, Maine — a suburb so close to the ocean that…Continue Reading Wise and Bright by Seoyeon Kim

Introduction by Anthony Ornelaz I first met Professor Kirun Kapur back in the fall of 2019, in Writing Poetry I, a course where we did just that—write poetry. Under the guidance of Professor Kapur, an accomplished poet and translator, the class worked so well together that many of us followed her into Writing Poetry II—Poetry…Continue Reading Emerging Sensitivity: Horace Ode I, 37 Translations

José Revueltas (1914-1976), a Marxist political activist and writer involved in the 1968 student movement, is believed to have been one of the leaders of the protest at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas. After the massacre, he was imprisoned in the infamous, clandestine Lecumberri Prison. He spent three years at Lecumberri, keeping a diary that contained self-reflections, free writing, recounts of prison life, existential thoughts on the situation in Mexico and humanity as a whole, and even an unsent letter to his wife, María Tereza Retes….Continue Reading Becoming José Revueltas by Amy Pass