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With fall semester in full swing, let's meet a few ASU English faculty in the trenches. New, or new-in-their-roles are: Maeghan Bowman, Reza Dalman, Ayling Dominguez, Andrew Dana Hudson, Patti Jones, Kathleen McNamara, Cecilia Savala & Marlene Tovar.

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October 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Another spring '27 ASU course for your consideration 🌍 CTE 310: Elements of Culture, Technology & Environment brings humanistic understanding to the four ancient elements 🌱🌪️🔥🌊 Taught via ASU Online + as an iCourse for campus students.

Register/add to favs: https://ow.ly/bkrO50ZT9pW #ASUHumanities
September 30, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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"ASU’s Jeffrey J Cohen, a self-described 'medievalist' and 'higher ed optimist,' says colleges will survive threats posed by the technology. And he says blaming students for being lazy or less dedicated than previous generations is hardly new."

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‘Cognitive surrender’: Are college students who use AI really learning?
Artificial intelligence is forcing colleges to reconsider what exactly they want students to learn — and how to measure it.
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September 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Here's a spring '27 ASU course that'll spark insight✨ ENG 240: Intro to Narrative Studies examines the power of storytelling, in all its beauty and danger. Taught by Brandi K. Adams (ASU Online) and Christine Holbo (Tempe campus).

Register or add to favs: https://ow.ly/sR9K50ZSk19 #ASUHumanities
September 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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🧠 (Non)Fiction Friday: "Neurodiversity is the next frontier for studying human subjectivity at large."

—From an essay by ASU English professor Bradley Irish, a historical neurodiversity researcher.

Read more via TheNACBS: https://ow.ly/f6E950ZNrpK #ASUHumanities
Historical Neurodiversity and British Studies
“In the last decade or so scholars in the humanities have increasingly begun to theorize how we might think about neurodivergence, and neurological difference more generally, in the historical past.”
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September 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Coming spring '27 at ASU 🔍 Brilliant detectives, perfect crimes, unreliable witnesses, femmes fatale, criminal masterminds, spies, traitors, secret codes, hidden identities and more, in ENG 294: Mystery and Detective Fiction taught by Prof. Brian K Goodman.

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ENG 294: Mystery and Detective Fiction | An ASU whodunit
Why do we love a good mystery? Is it because of the brilliant detectives, perfect crimes, unreliable witnesses, femmes fatale, criminal masterminds, spies, t...
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September 24, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Hope you can join the ASU Book Group on Sep. 24 to discuss cultivating spaces of belonging, navigating language policies, and exploring the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in “MeXicana Roots and Routes.” Noon, online and in Hayden Library. All welcome.

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September 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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📣 ASU students 📣 Thinking about spring '27 courses? Here's one that's plug-and-play—FMS 100: Intro to Film & Media Studies. 🎞️ Learn media analysis skills (+ enjoy the homework!) on Tempe campus or ASU Online.

Register or add to favorites: https://ow.ly/H2XB50ZQfJn #ASUHumanities

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September 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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You knew we taught writing … but did you know about culture, technology and environment?! 🤯

Find out how you can study what you love (education! literature! film! media! narrative! rhetoric!) in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

Visit us at english.asu.edu #ASUHumanities
September 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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😶‍🌫️Fiction Friday: "Then one day, we woke and looked to the sky, and found his word written in the clouds: giant letters spelling out an enormous 'WHOOPS.'"

ASU student Peter Hong has won a Pushcart Prize for his short story, "Golgori."

Read a review: https://ow.ly/Rf2F50ZNu1w #ASUHumanities
September 18, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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#ASUHumanities students: Hit the ground running at the upcoming ASU Fall 2026 Undergraduate Career & Internship Fair with help from an interactive prep session on Sep. 21.

Join us in person or online! Info: https://ow.ly/lqfl50ZNzNy
September 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, ASU Book Group discusses "MeXicana Roots and Routes" on Sep. 24. Editor Anita Huizar-Hernández of ASU Sch. of Int'l Letters & Cultures is our guest.

Join us! https://ow.ly/KPCc50ZNyYY #ASUHumanities CC: Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University
September 16, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Come work with us—we're hiring! The Department of English at ASU seeks Instructors for its Writing Programs. Great benefits, beautiful campus. 🌴☀️🌵 Apply by Oct. 2.

Details: https://ow.ly/qfL550ZNyzb #ASUHumanities
September 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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O.K., so TikTok is still talking about the "Arizona mumble" as an accent. Is it a thing?

Here's what ASU linguist Peter Joseph Torres has to say about that (via 12 News Phoenix): https://ow.ly/xrxo50ZLImz #ASUHumanities
Is the Arizona mumble an accent?
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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September 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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"What do we hold when we hold the memory of those we’ve lost?"

—ASU poet Safiya Sinclair, whose "We the Living" libretto for the New York Philharmonic will be performed at 3:30 p.m. ET 9/11.

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‘A vessel for all of that feeling’: ASU poet composes libretto for 9/11 concert in Manhattan | ASU News
Safiya Sinclair has always had a way with words.Her debut poetry collection, “Cannibal,” won a Whiting Award for poetry in 2016. Her 2023 memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” was described by more than one reviewer as a “tour de force.”
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September 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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On Sep. 10, ASU English professor Mitchell Jackson participates in the "Creator Lounge" at the NBA Foundation's Sports & Arts Symposium hosted at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe.

Details: https://ow.ly/rJvF50ZLARS #ASUHumanities
September 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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ASU English professor Brandi K. Adams has found what might be the earliest use of the term “artificial intelligence” in a 1588 book by English physician and astrologer John Harvey. Time to update the Oxford English Dictionary? 🤔😜

Learn more: https://ow.ly/o1i150ZL3jk #ASUHumanities
September 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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This fall, we invite you to connect with the Center community through our public programs. Here are a just a few of our upcoming events. Visit csrc.asu.edu/events to view full event and registration details for all of our public programs.

#ASUHumanities #Religion #CurrentEvents
September 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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The 2020 biopic "The Glorias" aimed to show the power of grassroots movements as it explored elements of Gloria Steinem's life, including her co-founding of Ms. Magazine.

Read a film review by Ms. contributing editor and ASU professor Aviva Dove-Viebahn : https://ow.ly/OQ6Y50ZIWMp #ASUHumanities
"The Glorias" Film Explores The Many Faces of Gloria Steinem - Ms. Magazine
Taymor's film about Steinem—'The Glorias'—shows the complexities of many different yet united women, who form the backbone of a movement for peace, freedom and equality.
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September 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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At the recent Library of Congress National Book Festival, lauded writers Tayari Jones—an ASU English alum!—and Ann Patchett recently discussed the books they quit writing.

Learn more via NPR: https://ow.ly/h3uQ50ZIjTR #ASUHumanities
Tayari Jones and Ann Patchett on the books they quit writing
The National Book Festival brought together two greats — Ann Patchett and Tayari Jones — listen in on part of their conversation about writing!
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September 3, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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"My hobbies include / requesting letters of recommendation, fishing / for typology, organizing my running shoes by color"

From "Self Portrait as Hinge Profile" by ASU's Cecilia Savala.

Read the full poem in South Florida Poetry Journal: https://ow.ly/iQr550ZEX2l #ASUHumanities
SOUTH FLORIDA POETRY JOURNAL
SoFloPoJo South Florida Poetry Journal is an online literary journal established in 2016 that publishes poetry, flash fiction, essays, interviews, art, photography, and reviews. There are no submission fees or paywalls
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September 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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ASU Tempe campus students: Looking for someone who understands what it's like to navigate your major? *Or* are you ready to use your own experience to help another student succeed? Join the Dept. of English Peer Mentor Program 🤝 Apply by Sep. 4.

Details: https://ow.ly/1aiV50ZHMro #ASUHumanities
September 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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ASU Project Humanities, led by English professor Neal Lester, will host its 13th annual Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good 🫶 this Oct. 9–11 on ASU’s Tempe campus.

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ASU Project Humanities launches 13th annual Hacks for Humanity | ASU News
ASU Project Humanities will host its 13th annual Hacks for Humanity: Hacking for the Social Good from Oct. 9–11 at the Memorial Union on ASU’s Tempe campus.
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August 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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🤖📚 Fiction Friday: "They walked through the stacks, occasionally skirting around the robots..."

From the story "High Intensity Stacks" by ASU's Andrew Dana Hudson.

Read it in the Center for Science and the Imagination's "Reimagining Public Goods" chapbook: https://ow.ly/zSfX50ZETmb #ASUHumanities
August 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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📣 2026 Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Speaker: AI and Human Agency in Catholic Thought
📅Sept. 24
🎤Paul Scherz | University of Notre Dame
📍ASU Tempe campus | West Hall 135
🔗asuevents.asu.edu/event/Marshall2026

#ASUHumanities #Catholicism #AI
August 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM