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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...
Visual Arts Alumna to Publish Work on Cloistered Nuns
While researching Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns, Abbie Reese, MFA'13, spent six years learning and recording the individual sto...
New Book Examines Legal Issues in Shakespeare
The University of Chicago Press recently published Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions, edited by Bradin Cormack...
Jessica Burstein, AM'90, PhD'98, Publishes Work on Fashion and Modernism
Jessica Burstein, AM'90, PhD'98, published Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art as part of the Refiguring Modernism series. The book proposes a ne...
David Nirenberg on Anti-Judaism in 'The Chronicle of Higher Education'
David Nirenberg, the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of History and Social Thought, wrote an article titled "Anti-Judaism as Critical Theor...
With Valentine's Day Approaching, Why Not Try an Ancient Greek Love Spell?
We live in an era of convenience, and trying to make someone fall in love with you using only your personality is time-consuming. It might be time to ...
Alumna Traces History of Bowl Belonging to Cleopatra Through 20th Century AD
Cultural historian Marina Belozerskaya, AM'92, PhD'97, has published the first book-length account of the Tazza Farnese, a libation bowl dating to Pto...
Alumna Publishes Personal Look at Gender Politics in Figure Skating
Erica Rand, AM'81, PhD'89, published a book of essays--part cultural critique, part memoir--last year titled Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, an...
Michael Bourdaghs's New Book Traces Japanese Pop Music from post-WWII to 1990s
Michael Bourdaghs, Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, reveals the history of previously unrecorded concerts of iconic Japa...