picture of william kuskin and jennifer smith

This event took place on March 7, 2023 from 5:30 - 7 p.m in Kittredge Central Conference Room N114 D. No Video Available.

About The Speakers

  • William Kuskin holds a joint appointment in English in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He is the Associate Dean for Digital Education in CU Engineering. Dr. Kuskin served in the Office of the Provost from 2014-2019, ultimately as Vice Provost for Academic Innovation. In that role he created the Office of Academic Innovation and the Office of Global Engagement. Prior to that, he was Chair of the Department of English.
     
  • Jennifer Smith (PhD, UCLA) is an Associate Professor of English, Coordinator and founder of the Digital Humanities Minor, and the Associate Director of the Center for Faith and Learning at Pepperdine University. In her time there, she has received an award for excellence in teaching as well as a major grant to develop a Christian pedagogical app called The Vineyard. Her scholarly research focuses on the language and theology of late medieval English bishop, Reginald Pecock. She has published a translation of his last polemical volume, The Book of Faith (UCLA-CMRS, 2020), and is currently working on a major project which seeks to sequence and situate the entirety of his corpus. She is also serving as the Media Officer for the Medieval Association of the Pacific.

About The Event

Please join J.A.T. Smith, Visiting Sabbatical Research Fellow with the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, and William Kuskin, Associate Dean for Digital Education and Professor of English, for a conversation about reading, technology, and cultural change in the fifteenth century. 

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