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Students in UChicago's Media Arts and Design program are using capstone projects to explore how games and video can drop us into someone else's world
The Mouly Carlson Family Establishes Endowed Chair to Advance Game Design and Media Innovation at UChicago
The Catherine Mouly & Anthony and Leo Carlson Professorship in Media, Arts, and Design will build on UChicago’s historical leadership in humanistic re...
Writer Yiyun Li to deliver Berlin Family Lectures beginning March 31
Acclaimed novelist and essayist to discuss literature as a mediative space in uncertain times
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...