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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1962, the Great Books Curriculum course Humanities A was officially designated Literature Humanities—the course we students have come to see as definitive of the Columbia College experience. Upon ...

An appearance by New York Times bestselling author Matthew Desmond – whose work focuses on urban sociology, poverty, race and ethnicity – ushers in the fall semester of the Lowell Humanities Series, ...

It has been said that computation will mark the end of humanistic inquiry. Actual literary research in this vein suggests otherwise. For some years, humanities scholars have sought to integrate ...

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, ...

It’s not the typical classroom situation, but then, these are not typical students. Their life journeys have taken them not to colleges and universities, but to one of the 34 facilities within ...