“The Matrix,” “Zombieland,” “WALL-E,” and “Snowpiercer” are all examples of apocalyptic movies. We’re obsessed with them, but why? Dr. Amy Merrill Willis explains the appeal.

On rare occasions, memories can become reality before receding again into the past.

It’s a Sunday afternoon in mid-May, and Greg Starbuck ’14 MA, ’19 MA is standing on a chair on the third floor of a former tobacco warehouse in downtown Lynchburg.

It’s a Wednesday afternoon in September of 2024 at R.S. Payne Elementary School in Lynchburg and Dr. Chidsey Dickson, an English professor at the University of Lynchburg, has just arrived at Georgianna Cary’s fourth grade class.