Anne E. Bromley

Small’s support of UVA projects includes an Engineering School building that bears his name, and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which opened in 2004, named in honor of Small and his wife.

The travel guides, known as “the Green Books,” reveal part of 20th-century U.S. history and how African Americans tried to avoid racism on the road.

This fall, he’s teaching “Form & Theory of Fiction,” a seminar for creative writing graduate students, and an advanced fiction course for undergraduates.

UVA English professors called the new film, “The Green Knight,” a “wildly inventive riff” and “a worthy retelling bound to spawn even more, proving again that the old stories are the richest.”

First-year students – and second-year resident advisers and University Greeters, too – said they were looking forward to “the full UVA experience” – in-person and on Grounds.