Category: MAIS

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. Since I made the video so long, I’m going to keep this part short. All you really need to know about this week is that Fan Studies is a deeply fascinating field. This week’s readings covered everything from the anthropologist Michel de […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for context. My poetry workshop went crazy last week. We got on the DART train. It felt weird at first, sitting with about ten other students and our professor having class on the train while other people were riding to work. I felt conspicuous […]

This post is part of a series. View the last post for more context. In this week’s video, I talk about Beyonce. Kind of a lot, honestly. The Grammys were last night, and Queen Bey’s long-awaited and much-lauded genre-bending country album Cowboy Carter won both Best Country Album and Album of the Year. It’s a […]

I’m Kristen, the Marketing Communications Manager here at the School of IS, and now an IS student. I switched my major from the MS in Marketing to the MA in Interdisciplinary Studies, and in this weekly series I share my experience with the MAIS. As the weeks go on, I’ll talk about the coursework, the […]

Student Spotlight: Amri Carrasco Carves Her Own Path Tomorrow, when Amri Carrasco crosses the stage at the ATC Lecture Hall to receive her diploma, it will be the second time she has done so in less than six months. It seems impossible, but Amri has made a habit of achieving what seems impossible.    Amri’s […]