To kick off 2022, Kate Birdsall, Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, presented “Redefining Experiential Learning in the Humanities: The Cube (publishing – process – praxis)” on January 20 in which she briefly highlighted how The Cube supports undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Arts & Letters and shared some of the Cube-sponsored projects with a focus on the Detroit Accessibility Project, the Holt DEI Project, and The Current.

A rhetorician, creative writer, and award-winning teacher, Birdsall joined the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures in 2014. She designed and implemented what became The Cube in the 2017-18 academic year, and most recently won MSU’s prestigious Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, which allows her to direct projects focused specifically on DEI initiatives in the mid-Michigan community.