Blog
July 28, 2020
My name is Kimberly Hoover, and I am a doctoral candidate in the English Department. My own research focuses on the socio-political tension that arises from integrating “alternative” or “complementary” medicine (referre...
July 28, 2020
I am Treviene Harris, a 7th-year doctoral candidate from the English department. For the last 12 months, I have been interested in exploring careers beyond the academy. This interest has led me to think deeply about the aspec...
July 28, 2020
My name is Darrelstan Ferguson, and I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures Department of the University of Pittsburgh. My fields of interest include Afro-Hispanic literatures and...
July 28, 2020
My research in Theatre and Performance Studies explores cross-gender performance, public institutions, Early Modern drama, and gender and sexuality studies. At the intersection of these fields lies the possibility of the arts as agents of societal change. I’ve always had a passion for womxn-centered...
July 28, 2020
I am Felipe Castañeda, a Hispanic Language and Literature Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh. Under the frame of the Humanities Engage Summer Immersive/Remote Program, I am currently working as a res...
July 27, 2020
My name is Dominique Branson, and I am a graduate student entering into my fourth year in the Department of Linguistics at Pitt. I am interested in the intersection of race, criminal justice, and African American...
July 27, 2020
My name is Eve Barden, I am an upcoming second-year graduate student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Film and Media Studies Program, pursuing an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in Film and Media s...
July 27, 2020
Hello, my name is Charles Athanasopoulos, and I am a PhD student in the Department of Communication. I am currently completing a summer immersive fellowship with...
April 6, 2020
I met with Annette Vee, associate professor of English and the director of the Composition Program, to discuss how she was going to use the Humanities En...
March 31, 2020
Alyssa Quintanilla, PhD Candidate in Critical and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, received an inaugural Immersive Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF). These fellowships incentivize and support dissertation projects that in...
March 30, 2020
Samuel Boateng, PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow in Jazz Studies in the Department of Music, received one of the inaugural Immersive Dissertation Research Fellows...
March 17, 2020
Since Raja Adal, Assistant Professor of History, is currently researching in Japan, we communicated electronically about his plans to use his Graduate Faculty Summer Stipend for Curricular Innovation for his course “Digital a...
June 21, 2019
“You know, I just don’t care about the digital humanities,” I said to a friend outside a coffeeshop on a sunny summer day in 2016. “I just don’t get computers and I don’t think they can help me with my research.” At the time, I never would have guessed that I would enroll in the Digital Studies and...
June 21, 2019
For most graduate students, networking is a mystical performance that we are expected to do. We spend the majority of our time alone reading, writing, and editing – most people don’t select the academic path because they are extroverts. Yet, most of us are coached to network without any clear direct...
April 13, 2019
Kylie Seltzer
More than Just a Game: How Sport Historian and Graduate Student Cory Brazile Uses IDPs
April 11, 2019
On the third floor of Posvar, deep within the labyrinth of offices and cubicles, I had the opportunity to speak with third-year history graduate student Cory Brazile. When she beg...