If research can be broadly defined as expanding the knowledge base of a particular discipline, then the study and the pursuit of the visual arts exemplifies the spirit of such endeavor. Central to any successful research project, may it be in the visual arts or in the sciences, is the creative engagement of the intellect. [...]
Research Interests Historical and interdisciplinary research on the interrelations of war and peace, conflict and diplomacy, with a mission of public service education; processing of oral history interviews of veterans; outreach; and establishing a digital archive. Founded in 1984 by the late Dr. Charles W. Johnson, the Center for the Study of War and Society [...]
The Cinema Studies Program is an organization of faculty with interests in the history, theory, making, and performance of cinema around the world. It brings together faculty from five different departments and three schools to facilitate interdisciplinary research, teaching and outreach related to film and the moving image. Departments School of Art School of Journalism [...]
The Classics Department offers students studies not only Greek and Latin, but also the ancient Mediterranean world in all its aspects. In space, this means the Mediterranean basin and areas contiguous to it; in range of time, this means from the middle of the second millennium BCE to the middle of the first millennium CE. [...]
Contemporary Arts and Society (CAAS) is a faculty working group dedicated to understanding the arts today within and across contemporary social, political, and aesthetic contexts and exploring current trends in the arts, broadly defined—literature, film, theater, dance, the visual arts, architecture, music, cyber-art—in order to theorize an ongoing “history of the contemporary.” Departments / Programs [...]
The Correspondence of James K. Polk project devotes itself to publishing the letters of the Tennessee native who served as the United States’ eleventh president from 1845 to 1849. The faculty members on this project select, transcribe, edit, and annotate these letters. The most important or interesting letters, they publish in full; the rest, they [...]
We are a diverse department with a diverse mission. We teach First-Year Composition to all the students at the University of Tennessee, and we teach literature to a sizable percentage of that total. We have an undergraduate major with four concentrations: creative writing, literature, rhetoric and writing, and technical communication. We offer an MA and [...]
The History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Research Group is a small but dedicated group of historians, philosophers, scientists, and other interested individuals who meet monthly to discuss their ongoing research in the areas of history and philosophy of science and technology. Faculty / Departments Stephen Blackwell, Ph.D., Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (MFLL)-Russian [...]
The Department of History at the University of Tennessee is a community of distinguished scholars and excellent teachers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Over just the last three years, our faculty of some twenty-five scholars has published fourteen books. Yet that same faculty teaches more undergraduates per person than almost any other department [...]
The Interdisciplinary Program (IDP) in Linguistics is an interdisciplinary research and educational unit promoting research, teaching, study abroad, and outreach on language, linguistics, and language-related topics. The IDP includes faculty from eight departments and two colleges across the university. Disciplines / Departments Anthropology Classics Educational Psychology and Counseling English Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Theory [...]
