Finding Humanity in Prison

March 18, 2025.Reading time 22 minutes.

Fresno State debate students enter the prison yard through a dark tunnel with chainlink gate.

While the bachelor’s degree looks great on paper to the parole board, the humanities courses have taught incarcerated individuals to reflect on their past and write their own story for their future.

Graduate student symposium features keynote on the humanities and hope

December 11, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

~ By Jefferson Beavers, communication specialist, Department of English English faculty and award-winning translator Dr. Steve Adisasmito-Smith will deliver a keynote address entitled “The Humanities: An Evolving Hope” as part of the second annual Students of English Studies Association symposium on Dec. 13 and 14 on campus. Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, dean of the College of […]

Book release for ‘Mr. Either/Or’ with author Aaron Poochigian

October 16, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

Book release with Dr. Aaron Poochigian, author of "Mr. Either/Or"

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures will present an evening with author Dr. Aaron Poochigian, celebrating the release of his book “Mr. Either/Or.” Poochigian teaches Classics and Humanities for the department.

Classics lecture on Late Antique letters

November 16, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

~ By Lisa Maria Boyles Why do we write letters? And what becomes of the letters we do write? From letters in antiquity to emails modern times, some of the same questions apply: No matter what audience a letter is written for, who might become an unintended or accidental reader of it? How are we […]

On the Road with California Humanities

September 27, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Cal Humanities (calhum.org/) will host a panel of Pulitzer Prize winners in conversation with others, including 2016 National Medal of Arts winner Luis Valdez, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Fresno Art Museum. The topic is “The Farmworker Movement in California: From Chavez Onwards.” The history of the farmworker movement in California has been […]