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Sayantika Chakraborty received the Public Humanities Incubator Award and Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship from the MLA.

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"Stories of Immigration: Sharing, Learning, and Supporting Our Immigrant Neighbor." An informational poster featuring multiple national flags and talking heads accompanied by the blurbs: "Immigrants have a right to emergency care, interpreter, decline to answer about status," "getting medication is really hard as an immigrant ... my daughter's educational process was harder!" language diversity, multicultural, Spanish was spoken in Gainesville before English," "I feel really lonely sometimes because I have no family here," "Immigration process was easy since I married a 'gringo' -- Guatemala," "Facts: Immigrants face obstacles every day!" "Inclusive Gainesville: welcome immigrants, share information and local services, supporting community, language translation," "we were forced to start our own business at 23 years old," "I've always felt in between of both countries," "we feel very welcome in Gainesville!"

Graduate students collaborate on “Facilitating Stories of Immigration in Rural North Central Florida” in Associate Professor Laura Gonzales’ seminar

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An elderly man lies in bed in a dark lit room. By his bedside are three undergraduate students, one of whom holds a camera. A mannequin is also positioned at the bedside.

On the set of HOUSE5, a feature film made by Professor Trevor Mowchun and his undergraduate students in the advanced filmmaking class

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Students work with Professor Terry Harpold as part of the Imagining Climate Change initiative Trees!

Trees! Dig a hole, drop in a sapling, refill, mulch, water… and repeat…

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Kenneth Kidd, dressed in a dark blazer and light pants, stands in front of a projected slide, which features a picture of Zora Neale Hurston and the quote: "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." Kidd is holding a microphone, mid-speech,

Professor Kenneth Kidd delivered the keynote speech at the Taiwanese Children’s Literature Research Association

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Em Petlev, English and History dual major, presented at The Alexander Grass Scholars Program

Em worked under the direction of Professor Margaret Galvan on their project “Making a Magazine: Early Contributions to Sinister Wisdom.”

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Eight Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows are seated at an upscale dining booth at Princeton's University Center for Human Values.

Professor Roger Maioli is among this year’s eight Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellows at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values.

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Professor Ange Mlinko discusses her new book Difficult Ornaments: Florida and the Poets (Oxford) at The Lynx Books.

The monograph explores Florida’s influence on major figures such as Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill.

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Professor Pamela Gilbert and Dr. John Murchek at the 2024 CLAS Fall Convocation

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Dr. Margaret Galvan nominated for Eisner Award

Dr. Galvan’s book, In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s, has been nominated for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

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Professor Michael Hofmann announced winner of the International Booker Prize 2024

Professor Hofmann was recognized for his translation of the German novel Kairos

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Professor Barbara Mennel, graduate student Alison Walsh, and UF alum Loren Pilcher presented in Udine, Italy in September 2023

Presentations for their panel, ‘Labor’s Process: Theory and Documentary in Changing Media Ecologies’, emerged in part from Dr. Mennel’s fall 2021 graduate seminar Studies in Film: 21st Century Film and Media Theory.

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Portraits of Kimberly Williams and Rachel Hartnett

Kimberly Williams and Rachel Hartnett Awarded 2022 O. McQuown Award

The award celebrates scholars with a commitment to addressing social issues and fostering opportunities for marginalized peoples.

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All the President’s Men (BFI Film Classics)
Robert B. Ray and Christian Keathley Bloomsbury Publishing 2023 Alan J. Pakula’s political thriller All the President’s Men (1976) was ...
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1860s
Edited by Pamela Gilbert Cambridge University Press 2024 Offering an in-depth overview and reappraisal of the 1860s in ...
In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s
Margaret Galvan University of Minnesota Press 2023 In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of ...
Su Friedrich
Barbara Mennel University of Illinois Press 2023 With acclaimed films like Sink or Swim and The Odds of Recovery, Su Friedrich’s ...
Designing Multilingual Experiences in Technical Communication
Laura Gonzales Utah State University Press 2022 As technical communicators continue advocating for justice, the field should pay ...

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