“Dreaming in Quarantine”: Latino/a Literature class turns self isolation into collaboration

August 26, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes In March of 2020, students across the country attended their last day of class weeks earlier than anticipated. Many suddenly felt isolated and perhaps even helpless, facing the virus COVID-19 as well as a period of social distancing that would last an undetermined length of time.  For students of professor Lydia Kerr’s Latino/a Literature class […]

Finding the ‘white literature section’

January 16, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU needs an official African American Literature class. Usually, it is unconvincing to argue for anything by saying, “everybody else is doing it” but, the fact is, the majority of universities in the country have a class offered with this title and the fact that UVU does not is unsettling. There have been courses that […]

‘Touchstones,’ ‘Warp & Weave’ and ‘Essais’ set for release

November 21, 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutes They are publications by students, of students and for students. Every semester, the English department publishes three publications that showcase the artistic and literary talent of students. While the three journals are each unique when it comes to what work they publish, the one thing that unites them is the fact they are entirely student […]

English department’s literary journals are up and running

October 10, 2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes Upon first glance room SC 213B look like an enormous peer review pow-wow. UVU students of all ages sit huddled around tables quietly scanning and shuffling papers; this is the reading portion of Touchstones’ reading night.   “Touchstones”, is the longest running of the three literary journals emerging from UVU. These journals, “Touchstones”, “Warp and […]