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Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination – October 24

Oct. 3, 2025— Friday, October 17 12:00 – 2:00 PM Central Library 211 Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination a lecture by Soraya Murray Soraya Murray contemplates the pivotal figure of the Black technologist, also known as ‘Black tech,’ in technothriller films. This work is part of Murray’s forthcoming Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, 2026),...

“Richard Coer de Lyon” and the State of Exception – October 17

Sep. 29, 2025— Friday, October 17 12:00 – 2:00 PM Central Library 211 Desperate Measures Call for Desperate Times: Richard Coer de Lyon and the State of Exception a lecture by Mariah Min The Middle English Romance Richard Coer de Lyon considers the crusades to be an emergency that necessitates extreme measures. Simultaneously, the enormity of Richard’s transgressions is...

Internship Search Party – October 1

Sep. 24, 2025—Wednesday, October 1 6:00 – 8:00 PM Divinity School 127 Want to learn more about finding internships appropriate for humanities majors? Alayna Hayes, Senior Director of the Career Center, will introduce successful search strategies! Dinner from Chipotle will be served.

Jared Harvey’s new novel available now

Sep. 24, 2025—Lecturer Jared Harvey‘s latest novel is now available from Asterism Books. Soft Lighting is written almost exclusively in the first-person singular and plural, and stages a motley of narrators (or only one) who respond to one another or who do not, and if not, I wonder whether desire for interpersonal connection withers, or excruciates. There is no...

Lydi Conklin joins the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series

Sep. 19, 2025—Assistant Professor Lydi Conklin joined the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series on September 4 to share their new novel Songs of No Provenance. In addition to reading from the work, which the Chicago Review of Books called “a great American music novel . . . a lush, wild story, textured with sensory and technical descriptions...

Vanderbilt MFA students featured in Cheekwood Exhibit

Sep. 16, 2025— MFA faculty, students, and alumni are currently featured in the exhibition Verse & Visions at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens. Visit Cheekwood and read the ekphrastic poems of Sydney Mayes, Carson Colenbaugh (MFA ’25), Ajla Dizdarevic, and Assistant Professor Didi Jackson. Verse and Vision,...

Didi Jackson wins 2025 Tennessee Book Award

Sep. 16, 2025—Humanities Tennessee has selected Assistant Professor Didi Jackson’s My Infinity: Poems as the winner of the 2025 Tennessee Book Award for Poetry, calling it “a remarkable book, not only for the phenomenal texture and musicality of its language, but equally for its stunning imagery and metaphorical constructs.” Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry...

Bryan Byrdlong (BA ’15) publishes debut collection of poetry

Sep. 16, 2025— Bryan Byrdlong’s Strange Flowers is a staggering debut that maps the lines and links between the living and undead, ritual and where the speaker belongs. Byrdlong’s exploration of the zombie, from the Caribbean to cocktails, marks what changes us, takes us out of ourselves, and...