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 ...

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, ...

A few years ago, I was discussing the state of humanities education with a friend, a literature teacher in his 40s who was born in Italy. “When I was a kid, we never justified the humanities,” he said ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Elias Muhanna leans back in his office chair, sporting a purple-checkered button-down shirt and sipping from a pink water bottle. With a full black beard ...

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 ...

When Katrina Dzyak, a postdoctoral Core Curriculum lecturer, teaches Homer’s “The Iliad” in her Literature Humanities class, she resists centering discussion around male glory and honor. Instead, she ...

The humanities have entered a new era, one focused on deconstructing power and privilege, rethinking race and identity, and reimagining justice and equality. The goal is no longer just to interpret ...