Surrounded by family and friends, in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada peaks, Gary Gilroy was presented with an original musical score, “Pulsing Onward – A California Pastorale,” by James M. David, in honor of his life in music.
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Hanayo Oya, assistant professor in the Department of Media, Communications and Journalism, served as a co-producer on the Netflix series “Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War,” which has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Historical Documentary category.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and Department of English.
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Howard’s project, titled “Embodying the Jain Ideals of Heroism and Freedom,” will explore how Jain thinkers and activists worked to support women’s rights in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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From left, Fresno State MFA alumni Tiffany Crum, Samina Najmi, and Delaney R. Whitebird Olmo have all announced their debut books will be published in 2025. Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and Department […]
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Sharma is a seventh-generation nautanki performer, writer, director and guru and has acted in more than 500 plays.
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The National Art Education Association has named Dr. Ahran Koo, associate professor of Art History, as the recipient of the 2024 Pacific Region Higher Education Art Educator.
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“The work the students are doing in MCJ Production Services is at a professional level, and the two Accolade awards serve as an example of that professionalism.”
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Leading the accolades was Dr. Gary Gilroy, Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Fresno State, who was honored with the CBDA David Goedecke Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Boone spent the 2022-23 school year as a Fulbright scholar exploring pedagogy and learning and collaborating in the diverse musical program at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.
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The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to greet Dr. Young Maeng into the Department of Art, Design, and Art History. Welcome, Dr. Maeng!
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The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to welcome Dr. Pratik Shah to the Department of Media, Communications and Journalism.
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The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes Hanayo Oya to the Department of Media, Communications and Journalism as a new tenure-track assistant professor.
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The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to welcome Dr. Nasrin Golshany to the Department of Art, Design and Art History.
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Three local music legends with ties to Fresno State were honored at the Valley Music Hall of Fame.
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The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to welcome Dr. Juan Berríos to the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature.
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The College of Arts and Humanities is excited to welcome Kathy Luo to the Department of Theatre and Dance. Luo is a local Dance Artist and Choreographer and will be teaching Modern Dance, Pilates, and University Dance Theatre.
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“Caught in the Rhythm” is the fourth in a series of Boone’s explorations of improvised music and spoken language, long an area of both scholarly and artistic interest for the saxophonist.
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The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty Juan Carlos Mantilla to the Department of English. Dr. Mantilla is an Ecuadorian scholar of the art histories and comparative literatures of early modernity.
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The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty Michele McConnell to the Department of English. Dr. McConnell specializes in literacy studies, adolescent literacies, critical literacy, and collaborative and participatory writing practices.
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Celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Department of English and Creative Writing Program.
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At the inaugural Career Champions luncheon in August, the Career Development Center formally recognized Professor Betsy Hays with the Career Champion of the Year award.
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The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty Brenna Womer (she/they) to the Department of English.
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Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor taught his philosophy class for the last time in the fall of 2022, marking the end of an era.
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Dr. Toni Wein, a Fresno State professor emerita of English, passed away on Dec. 17, 2022, after a bout with brain cancer. She was 70.
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The collection of luscious romantic songs by Tchaikowsky, Rachmaninov, Medtner and others written to the poetry of Pushkin, Goethe and Baudelaire was released through Centaur Records and is available on most streaming platforms.
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The Fresno State Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2022-23 season with two new Department of Music piano faculty members Dr. Peter Klimo and Dr. Michael Krikorian on Saturday, Oct. 8.
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We are excited to welcome Nicola Olsen as she joins the Department of Theatre and Dance as Assistant Professor of Piano. She teaches Drama 137 Creative Dramatics, Drama 136(S) Puppetry, Drama 138A Children’s Theatre and Drama 138B Children’s Theatre.
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Michael Krikorian returns to his alma mater, Fresno State, as he joins the Department of Music as an Associate Professor.
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We are excited to welcome Peter Klimo as he joins the Department of Music as Assistant Professor of Piano. He teaches applied piano lessons, accompanying, piano pedagogy, piano literature and class piano III.
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We are excited to welcome Jesse Scaccia as he joins the Department of Media, Communication and Journalism as Associate Professor. He teaches courses in media writing and news and media literacy.
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Author Mai Der Vang, an assistant professor of English at Fresno State, won an American Book Award for her documentary poetry collection, “Yellow Rain.”
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U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera, a professor emeritus of Chicano and Latin American studies at Fresno State, won a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in recognition of outstanding lifetime achievement in poetry.
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Located on Church and Willow avenues in Southeast Fresno, the Juan Felipe Herrera Elementary School grounds are visually striking, with a large orange entrance contrasted with the dark blue administrative office and the vivid sky that often graces Fresno in the late summer.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and the Department of English.
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“If you want to hear Mahler’s Symphony Number 5 on this level, you would most likely have to drive to San Francisco; you’d have to drive to L.A. Tickets are 200 or 300 dollars each. It’s an expensive experience.” ~ Dr. Thomas Loewenheim.
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Fresno State professor of music theory and composition, Dr. Benjamin Boone, was named a U.S. Fulbright Scholar for the 2022-23 academic year.
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Through his experience in the Fulbright program, Sharma intends to form a larger performance-for-communication theoretical model that can be applied across cultures.
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Author and Fresno State professor Mai Der Vang was honored May 9 as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for her groundbreaking book of documentary poetry, “Yellow Rain.”
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The award was presented to Boren by retired high school journalism educator Ed Galdrikian and recognized him for speaking at educational journalism conferences and conventions around the state and volunteering at an inner-city elementary school to help underperforming students improve their reading levels.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and the Department of English.
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Dr. Devendra Sharma received a grant from the Hewlett 50 Arts Commission to present “Princess Nautanki.”
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We are excited to welcome Virginia Patterson as she joins the Department of Art and Design as the Assistant Professor in Graphic Design.
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“As I photographed the billowing smoke from the prescribed burn with Half Dome in the distance, I knew that it was an iconic image.” ~ Joan K. Sharma
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Dr. Veena Howard explores Gandhi’s revolutionary teachings and informs us how we too can implement such profound actions into our lives.
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The College of Arts and Humanities welcomes new faculty Dr. René M. Rodríguez-Astacio to the Department of English.
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The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City has purchased the installation “I Tried Everything” (1972) created by Fresno State alumni Nancy Youdelman, Dori Atlantis, Jan Lester Martin, and Suzanne Lacy.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and the Department of English.
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Dr. Kenneth Froelich, professor of music, was selected for Fresno State’s 2021 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching,
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Interim President Dr. Jiménez-Sandoval announced Dr. Veena Howard, associate professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy, as the first Endowed Chair in Jain and Hindu Dharma at Fresno State.
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Jazz Station, a Portuguese language blog based in Los Angeles, named Boone the number three alto saxophone artist and number 10 soprano saxophone artist of 2020 for his album “Joy.”
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a regular series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.
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In August 1990, Ruth Aparicio was brought on as a temporary worker in the Graduate Studies office. Just weeks later, she was hired as a full-time employee. She transferred to the Linguistics Department several years later, then to the Philosophy Department. In all, Ruth has been with the College of Arts and Humanities for about 25 years.
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Meet Jenny Krichevsky, a specialist in rhetoric and writing studies, in conversation with English Department communication specialist Jefferson Beavers. Dr. Krichevsky is new to California, relocating from Amherst, Massachusetts.
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We are excited to welcome Dr. Stephen Ivany as he joins the Department of Music as the Assistant Professor of Trombone and Euphonium.
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Faculty ovations are a regular series that allows us to applaud our faculty for their achievements in the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State. Their hard work and accomplishments directly impact our students, college, university, and the wider community.
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Following a rigorous review by their colleagues in their departments and colleges and by their deans and the provost, these faculty members have been awarded tenure and/or a new academic rank based on their teaching, scholarship and service to the University and the community.
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Faculty ovations are a regular series that allows us to applaud our faculty for their achievements in the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State. Their hard work and accomplishments directly impact our students, college, university, and the wider community.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a regular series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.
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As he and his students shelter in place, Dr. Vadim Keyser has employed a variety of teaching tools and techniques, including scientific modeling and visualization, video presentation, and guided reading.
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March 25, 2020, was supposed to be a monumental day for Fresno State’s Department of English, as it was set to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its annual Young Writers’ Conference. But due to public health precautions for COVID-19, long-time conference coordinator Tanya Nichols had to do what so many artists have done during the pandemic — improvise.
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Dr. Mary Husain loves leading multicultural discussions that allow students and the campus community to better understand different cultures, to develop global awareness and to see the value of cultural diversity.
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During the winter break, music students Marina Malcolm and Christopher Rodriguez presented at national conferences. Dr. Maria S. Briggs-Okunev was also with them and presented.
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Miguel A. Gastelum is a Graduates of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.) Dean’s Council member, a program that enables recent alumni to support the college through membership for as little as $10 per month. He’s always been passionate about Fresno State and, as a G.O.L.D. level donor, he believes in providing students with opportunities to enrich their education and time spent at the university.
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How the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures went from two supporters to over 90 in three years for Day of Giving.
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We ask that you join us in giving a round of applause to:
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Şekeryan will give three public lectures in the Spring semester, under the general theme of the Armistice years. Based on a collection of Armenian and Ottoman Turkish press, the lectures provide new research on a neglected period in the history of the late Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Armenians.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a regular series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.
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Students, faculty, and alumni of the Fresno State College of Arts and Humanities have created some exciting products over the last year that would make fantastic gifts this holiday season!
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It was a warm fall morning at Lafayette Park in Central Fresno as representatives from Fresno State and Fresno City College, students and the community gathered to celebrate the completion of a mural started by the late Fresno State professor Dr. Paulette Fleming.
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We ask that you join us in giving a round of applause to:
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This fall semester, graphic design alumna Jessie Irwin returns to Fresno State as a lecturer to teach “History of Graphic Design” while also working as the Creative Director at Jeffrey Scott Agency (JSA) in downtown Fresno.
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From that moment, everything quickly moved into motion as Dr. Gordo Peláez agreed with the idea and offered art history as a start to teach new vocabulary and create new lessons in Spanish. He was joined by Hernández. Castillo wrote a proposal outlining the necessity of a program and sent it to then Dean Jiménez-Sandoval. The rest was history as the Teachers’ Academy was approved and housed under MCLL.
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An eruption of the senses in a journey through life’s indulgences, Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” is among the most popular pieces for classical music concert-goers. The opening, ‘O Fortuna, is immediately recognizable as the backdrop to many scenes in movies, television and commercials invoking drama unparalleled by other musical numbers.
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Faculty ovations are a regular series to applaud our faculty for their achievements in the College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State. Their hard work and accomplishments directly impact our students, college, university, and the wider community.
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The German Studies Association announced that the book “Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States” by Fresno State associate professor Dr. Bradley Hart has was awarded the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize.
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“I cannot imagine my life without the presence, friendship, and the unconditional support of teachers, administrators, colleagues, and friends from Fresno State.”
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Doub teaches a graduate seminar on coming-of-age stories, the Spanish American bildungsroman. She brings in her presentations and uses them as examples, showing students what they can do for oral presentations or how their current research can be a seed for a later essay.
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This year, Dr. Katherine Adams takes over the Philosophy department as Interim Chair.
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Dr. Lisa Weston has taught a variety of Medieval Literature courses at Fresno State. She was born in England and raised there and in Canada before immigrating to the United States. She received her Ph.D. in 1982 from UCLA, where she studied Old and Middle English, Medieval Latin, Norse and Celtic literatures.
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We are excited to welcome Dr. Sergio F. Juárez to the Communication Studies program.
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As part of the College of Arts and Humanities blog series on new faces in the college, we introduce you to an accomplished professor and author who is joining the Department of English and the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing for academic year 2019-20.
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We are excited to welcome Dr. Andrea Polegato, who will be joining as an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies. Dr. Andrea Polegato earned his BA in History of Political Philosophy from the University of Padua, Italy and his Ph.D. in Italian Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2015.
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Experiences of long-distance swimming in the ocean, with the current and against it, have been important to the artist in the development of the paintings. The paintings convey the sense of being in the currents while also suggesting the undercurrents of human experience that come to mind through the metaphor of the sea.
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In his new role as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, La Porta, inspired by his love of travel, plans to expand study abroad opportunities for students which he considers essential to broadening their horizons. In addition, he would like to facilitate faculty-student mentorships and promote more service-learning courses.
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Congratulations to MCJ Assistant Professor Aaron Schuelke, MFA for winning gold in the University Film and Video Association Conference in the Fiction Short category for his film titled ‘For the Birds.’ Click here to watch…
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Dr. Hague Doyen Foster, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, died peacefully and surrounded by family at the age of 83 on Wednesday, May 22, 2019.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a monthly series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.
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The Provost’s Awards were established in 1993 to recognize the outstanding teaching, research and service that is central to the mission of Fresno State. Honorees provide students with a stimulating environment that fosters learning and affirms the University as an intellectual and cultural leader in the Central Valley.
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Compiled by Jefferson Beavers
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The fellowship is designed to place academic experts in policy-making environments and make their expertise available to political leaders while also providing insights to enhance their teaching, research and administrative abilities.
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The Knights and Daughters of Vartan have named Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian and news anchor Stefani Booroojian “Man of the Year” and “Woman of the Year.” The two were honored at a special Banquet held on Sunday, March 30, 2019.
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Professor Emerita of Communication, Katherine Adams was recognized by the Western States Communication Association (WSCA) with the Distinguished Service Award for her contributions to the field of Communication and WSCA.
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Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a new monthly series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.
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Three Department of English faculty have new publications, and another has been selected to serve on a prestigious international academic delegation.
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Fresno State’s Department of Music will present its Annual Faculty Concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan 26 in the Department’s Concert Hall.
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By Jefferson Beavers Authors Joseph Cassara and Venita Blackburn, both new assistant professors of English at Fresno State, have each won national awards for their debut books. TheLos Angeles Press Club recognized Cassara’s novel, “The House of ImpossibleBeauties,” as Best Fiction Book 2018 in its 11th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. The awards were given at […]
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Students, faculty and alumni of the Fresno State College of Arts and Humanities have created some exciting products over the last year which would make fantastic gifts!
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It had been nearly 20 years since the last Fresno State Jazz Festival, and after a day of performances by visiting schools, the main concert began in the Fresno State Concert Hall on the evening of Nov. 29. Richard Giddens, Director of Jazz Studies for the Fresno State Department of Music directed the Fresno State […]
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By Jefferson Beavers Dr. Peter Everwine, a professor emeritus of English at Fresno State and nationally acclaimed poet and translator, died in Fresno on Oct. 28 at the age of 88. Services for Mr. Everwine are scheduled for 11 a.m. on Nov. 10 at Farewell Funeral Services, 660 W. Locust Ave. #101 in Fresno. The […]
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The College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State 