Striving Towards the Nostalgic Design of Community College

19 Jan 2023
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By Corina Lerma

“Do not seek the old in the new, but find something new in the old.”
--Siegfried Zielinski, Deep Time of the Media

I grew up regretting asking my parents anything about their childhood because they would go on long tangents about how in their times everything was better: the music, the clothes, the people, and the teachers.

The History, Meaning, and Racial Evolution of Mothers

19 Jan 2023
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By Jazmine Gracia

My first year at the Humanities Collaborative at EPCC-UTEP has been dedicated to shedding light on the population of student parents. I have particularly focused on the history of motherhood and its historical development, and how a bad mother and good mother have been divided between race, supported by the work of Jillian Watson, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas.

A Conversation with Donna Snyder: An Advocate and Speaker for the Unseen

19 Jan 2023
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By Tatiana Rodriguez

On March 2, I interviewed Donna Snyder, founder, and coordinator for The Tumblewords Project, a project in its twenty-seventh year of free community writing workshops in El Paso, Texas.  On November 20 and December 4, 2021, I helped facilitate two workshops for her with Faculty Fellow Honora Spicer and a team of six University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) students pursuing a Community-Engaged Scholarship project within Professor Naomi Fertman’s Women and Gender Studies class.

Exploring History at El Paso's Burges House

19 Jan 2023
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By Sarah Lord asnd Jordyn Wright

Sarah Lord
This year will mark my third working with the Humanities Collaborative at EPCC-UTEP. So far it has provided me the opportunity to be a part of a diverse variety of projects from teaching fifth graders how to explore poetry through the works of William Wordsworth to lending a hand in the development of a database that will aid those researching paratextual verse from English texts published before 1700.

The Humanities and the Rhetorical: Being a Professional Human in a Border Writing Studies Program

19 Jan 2023
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By Juan Moisés García-Rentería

The Humanities and My Rhetorical Situation
Here is a story that might sound familiar to many of you: As a student pursuing a career in the arts and humanities, I began a journey that did not start with me pushing myself to achieve the goal of becoming a professional writer. Rather, my educational choice had responded to my desire to challenge myself intellectually and, ultimately, to achieve a type of success on a very personal level.