Creative writing and art deeply shape these six English graduates

May 21, 2020.Reading time 22 minutes.

Rodolfo Avelar, Jessica Hallstrom, Bekah Izard, Graciela Sierra-Moreno, Gaoyong Yang-Vang

With future professional goals that include teaching, traveling, community organizing, publishing their own books, and more, the power of writing and literature is alive and well in these 2020 graduates of the Fresno State English Department.

Laura Hendricksen wins CAH Outstanding Thesis Award for work on Hidatsa language

May 20, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

Hendricksen won the 2020 College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Thesis Award for “Demonstratives and Determiner-phrase Structure in Hidatsa Narrative Discourse: A Morphological, Syntactic, and Semantic Analysis.”

Message from the Dean

At this moment in time, there is no doubt that the arts and humanities allow us to seek a deeper understanding of ourselves and our world. Our faculty and students have been grappling with the question of what it means to be human in their mostly virtual classes, while the medium through which they are teaching and learning truly puts the quest for enlightenment into new perspective. As this newsletter attests, our College’s talented faculty have dedicated their careers to transforming the lives of our students by providing an excellent, innovative education, and they are forging ahead this fall with the same commitment. More…