Message from the Chair

From the Acting Chair:

Greetings and welcome to the fall semester! We are very sorry to see our colleague, Dr. Srimati Basu, announce her retirement from UK. Over her 18 years at Kentucky, Dr. Basu has been a key architect of the department’s curriculum and pedagogy. Her joyful insistence on intellectual rigor was matched only by her effervescence in community building. She offered UK world-class scholarship and fostered transnational study in the department and college. We will miss her everyday presence, and we are happy that she has agreed to remain on graduate committees as professor emerita. I am pleased to step in as Acting Chair, reprising a role I first filled ten years ago. A lot of things have changed since then, and I look forward to supporting our students and faculty as we all enter the new academic year. 

Sincerely, 

Carol Mason, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities