While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power ...

Amid this year of many changes, another was announced to Columbia’s undergraduate class of 2024: “Citizen: An American Lyric,” by Claudia Rankine, SoA ’93, has been added to the Literature Humanities ...

In 2015, we’re still reaching many milestones in Black History. The latest comes from Columbia University addingToni Morrison to its updated Literature Humanities Syllabus, making her the first black ...

Two annual events, the Candlemas Lecture and Fiction Days, are among the highlights of spring semester Lowell Humanities Series events, which, as always, feature a slate of notable authors and ...

When Katrina Dzyak, a postdoctoral Core Curriculum lecturer, teaches Homer’s “The Iliad” in her Literature Humanities class, she resists centering discussion around male glory and honor. Instead, she ...

The arrival of Allison Curseen and Jonathan Howard to the Boston College faculty this academic year reflects the University’s commitment to strengthening its African American literature teaching and ...

Martin Hägglund, who specializes in post-Kantian philosophy, critical theory, and modernist literature, has been appointed the Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, ...

The humanities are struggling at universities nationwide — but outside the ivory tower, fields from Silicon Valley to ...

Nina Beguš remembers being at an event 10 years ago where a group of engineers showcased new robots that could recognize ...

The humanities have entered a new era, one focused on deconstructing power and privilege, rethinking race and identity, and reimagining justice and equality. The goal is no longer just to interpret ...