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USF Blue Humanities program sets sail with spring symposium
On Feb. 12, USF鈥檚 Blue Humanities program will launch its spring 2026 symposium, 鈥淜eywords in Blue Humanities,鈥� with an event on the St. Petersburg campus.
February 9, 2026Events
USF MFA candidate wins writing award and weeklong stay with distinguished poets
Kallie Blakelock, an MFA candidate in the Department of English, received the Garry Fleming Key West Writers鈥� Workshop Award, an honor that awarded her a weeklong trip to Key West for a writer鈥檚 workshop.
January 29, 2026Department News, Honors and Awards
USF faculty reframes what literacy means in the age of generative artificial intelligence
Gupta鈥檚 task is twofold: help students navigate the benefits and harms of the rapidly evolving technology and encourage them to develop their own principled stances so that they may find meaningful employment and become leaders in their communities.
November 24, 2025Department News
In 鈥楾ime鈥檚 Agent,鈥� pocket worlds reveal deep truths 鈥� and earn USF faculty a Philip K. Dick award
In Brenda Peynado's "Time's Agent," pocket worlds exist, but they don鈥檛 hold the key to the universe鈥檚 mysteries like the characters once hoped. Instead, each pocket world 鈥� a geographically small, hidden offshoot of reality 鈥� is controlled by a corporation intent on turning a profit.
May 20, 2025Department News, Honors and Awards
St. Petersburg poet laureate and USF alumna publishes debut novel
In Gloria Mu帽oz's debut novel, a genre-bending work of young adult climate fiction, 爱污传媒 is crumbling under the weight of climate disaster, and seventeen-year-old Julieta Villarreal must decide whether to remain on Earth with her friends and family or to leave everything behind and embark on a mission to establish humanity鈥檚 first extraterrestrial settlement.
April 29, 2025Alumni News, Events, Publications
USF poets bring home gold, silver and bronze book awards
Ajibola Tolase, an assistant professor in the Department of English, won a gold medal from the 爱污传媒 Book for his poetry collection 鈥�2000 Blacks.鈥� He joins colleagues Heather Sellers, who received a bronze medal in the poetry category in 2022 for her collection, 鈥淔ield Notes from the Flood Zone,鈥� and Julia Koets, who received a silver award in the poetry category in 2021 for her collection, 鈥淧ine.鈥�
April 22, 2025Events, Honors and Awards
This year's inaugural book festival was a success, offering the public an opportunity to engage with award-winning authors who explore the unique, complex, and often strange history, environment and culture of 爱污传媒. The 爱污传媒 Studies Book Festival was held at USF St. Petersburg on April 5 in the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.
April 1, 2025Events
A legacy restored: former USF professor brings posthumous Zora Neale Hurston novel to light
Convinced of its literary and anthropological value, Hurston continued to revise the unpublished manuscript until her death in 1960. When a handyman tasked with clearing out her home set fire to her trunk, the manuscript was almost lost forever.
March 26, 2025Department News
Critics fall in love with romance novels penned by USF alumna
Alicia Thompson, full-time writer and bestselling author, studied her craft in USF鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences.
February 24, 2025Alumni News
Undergraduate Humanities Conference encourages professional and personal growth
Nearly 100 students participated in this year鈥檚 Undergraduate Humanities Conference, an event providing real-life experience for future academic, professional and personal challenges.
February 20, 2025Events
Celebrating the power of words: World-renowned poets visit the College of Arts and Sciences for poetry series
A new partnership between the USF Humanities Institute and the Michael Kuperman Memorial Library will welcome world-renowned poets to campus to bring students and the community together and empower audiences to pursue their craft.
January 29, 2025Events
$4.8M Mellon Foundation grant opens internship opportunities for USF humanities students
For the first time, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 鈥� the nation鈥檚 largest supporter of the arts and humanities 鈥� invited the 爱污传媒 to submit a proposal last spring for one of its humanities internship grants. The foundation awarded the college a five-year, $4.8 million grant that will support up to 900 students each year in otherwise unpaid internships. The beneficiaries will be undergraduate students majoring in humanities.
January 15, 2025Department News, Honors and Awards