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Martha C. Nussbaum Honored with the Norman Maclean Faculty Award
The following was published on the UChicago Law School website on February 20, 2024.
Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Profe...
Humanities Scholar Receives Prestigious Award for Analyzing India's Art Cinema
Originally starting her career as a South Asian historian of gender, Prof. Rochona Majumdar has expanded her research to encompass Indian cinema. She ...
Modern Language Association and College Art Association to Honor W. J. T. Mitchell with Lifetime Achievement Awards for English and Writing on Art
Freida High's painting "Hypericons: Homage to W. J. T. Mitchell," 2007. © Freida High. .
Prof. W. J. T. Mitchell may be the only living iconologi...
UChicago Fourth-Year Student Earns Marshall Scholarship
The following was published on UChicago News on December 12, 2023.
After two years of leading creative writing workshops in the Cook County Jail, U...
Two UChicago Scholars to Receive Scaglione Prizes from the Modern Language Association
By Sara Patterson
For their books, Assoc. Prof. Noémie Ndiaye and Asst. Prof. Maria Anna Mariani respectively will receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scag...
UChicago Scholar Receives ASAP Book Prize
By Sara Patterson
Asst. Prof. Tina Post became intrigued with how the gesture of expressionlessness operated in the 20th-century Black performances...
UChicago Humanities Alum Earns Prestigious Mitchell Scholarship
The following was published in UChicago News on November 28, 2023.
By Andy Brown
How do we create a society that no longer sees prisons as a sol...
Two Humanities Scholars to Receive the Charles J. Goodwin Award
Profs. Christopher Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar will receive the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit by the Society for Classical Studies as co-edit...
Modern Language Association to Honor W. J. T. Mitchell with Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award
The following was published in UChicago News on October 31, 2023.
Prof. W. J. T. Mitchell may be the only living iconologist on the planet. He...
Prof. Sianne Ngai to Address Relationship Between Aesthetic Judgments, Capitalism in Humanities Day Keynote
An original literary scholar, Sianne Ngai has centered her work on unspooling the social and political histories that form the aesthetic judgments of ...