John McPhee tells us that when his youngest daughter, Martha, was seventeen, her English teacher wrote forty-seven words on the blackboard and asked members of the class to write a composition using ...

The New Directions conference was born at the University of Texas (UT) in 2008. It was created with the intention to present graduate students with opportunities to build relationships and exchange ...

Our team consists of faculty researchers from UT Austin, led by Uvalde native and historian Dr. Monica Muñoz Martinez. We specialize in the fields of history, social work, and sociology. Our expertise ...

Perceptual and motor systems must reflect the natural tasks the organism performs as well as the properties of the natural environments in which the organism performs those tasks. Thus, the aim of ...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies hosts a weekly language table for each of our four main languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish). These tables provide an opportunity for students to ...

Mr. E. L. Keene, a 1942 graduate of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, envisioned a prize that would honor and support the pursuit of great American writing, and through ...

You should acknowledge both CAPS and the PRC if your affiliation contributed to the work in any way, by providing office or meeting space, intellectual community, administrative or computer support, ...

The Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) carries out multi-disciplinary archaeological research projects in the agricultural hinterlands of ancient Greek colonies in southern Italy and on the ...

UT's Department of Linguistics is committed to teaching and research in linguistics, the scientific and humanistic study of human language. Our research examines form and meaning in a wide variety of ...

Philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is one of the oldest and most enduring human intellectual enterprises. Philosophy begins in wonder—wonder at the richness, order, and beauty of the world around us, ...

The Department of Asian Studies is dedicated to an academic study of Asia that aims to transform its students and faculty intellectually, professionally, and personally. We create new knowledge across ...

With over 60 Core and Affiliate faculty from a dozen departments across UT, the Center represents the extraordinary depth and breadth of faculty expertise in the study of East Asia. Created in 2004, ...