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Two perspectives on medicine and the humanities
A literature scholar and a linguist engage with biomedical science.
Julie Orlemanski is an associate professor in the Department of English Language ...
From the dean
The dean discusses arts and scholarship and introduces the division’s new website.
Dear Alumni and Friends,I’m excited to share with you the latest a...
Stuart M. Tave, distinguished scholar of British literature and ‘amiable humorist,’ 1923-2026
Stuart Malcolm Tave, a renowned scholar of British literature, comedy and satire, died Jan. 6 at the age of 102. For nearly 50 years, Tave, the Willia...
MacArthur Foundation supports UChicago initiative to explore future of the humanities
Building on the University of Chicago’s longstanding leadership in the arts and humanities, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society has receive...
Arts & Humanities Day 2025 sparks citywide conversation
On a recent day in Hyde Park, fans of Taylor Swift gathered in their Eras Tour T-shirts to hear a scholarly breakdown of the singer’s lyrics. Authors ...
Theaster Gates redeems discarded materials in Smart Museum's 'Unto Thee'
Walking into Theaster Gates: Unto Thee, one immediately feels dwarfed. Floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with African art and cultural items fill the Sm...
PhD student Naomi Harris publishes three new Hittite poems in The Paris Review
“The Moon that fell from heaven”—a story first inscribed on clay tablets in the fourteenth century BCE—begins with a celestial accident: the Moon tumb...
Grossman Ensemble honored by Library of Congress invitation
On November 15, the Grossman Ensemble will perform in the Library of Congress’s famed Coolidge Auditorium—a rare distinction that recognizes the Ensem...
English faculty Kaneesha Parsard traces an alternative ending to Minty Alley by C.L.R. James
C.L.R. James—historian, Marxist theorist, cricket commentator, and one of the twentieth century’s most prolific writers—wrote only one novel in his li...
Josephine McDonagh, Professor of English, elected to the British Academy
facuJosephine McDonagh, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Chair of the Development of the Novel in English and Distinguished Service Professor, has been e...