Life & Letters

College of Liberal Arts

  • Message From the Dean: Spring 2010

    New Technology, Scholarly Discipline Help Advance World-Class Research As a psychology professor here at The University of Texas at Austin for the past 35 years, I’ve spent much of my career studying how the human brain perceives speech and language. And as a former department chair, I’ve also spent years trying to support colleagues whose…

    Randy Diehl

  • Books: Spring 2010

    Oscar Casares’ “Amigoland” Is 2010 Mayor’s Book Club Selection The book “Amigoland” (2009, Little, Brown) is set in a small Mexican border town. It tells the story of two estranged and aging brothers, Don Fidencio Rosales and Don Celestino, who are brought back together by a young cleaning woman and a mystery. The improbable trio takes…

    Michelle Bryant