I am the Queen, a compelling short film about some of the women of Chicago footwork, begins with a radiant poem: “From dance groups to battle cliques, we represent...
Robert Stepto, newly named as the John M. Schiff Professor of English, focuses his research on the relation of literature to the visual arts and to folklore, literary...
Please join us to celebrate the new academic year on Thursday, September 6th at 4pm in Davenport Common Room.
American Studies has packed up and relocated to the second floor of Arnold Hall during the renovation of HGS.
Over the next two years the Hall of Graduate Studies will be...
Alexander Zhang is the 2018 winner of the Lisa MacFarlane Prize awarded to the “best paper or project written and developed by an undergraduate located in New England on any...
Our incoming Ph.D student, Sylvia Ryerson, just published this wonderful op-ed, “Building Prisons in Appalachia: The Region Deserves Better” in the Boston Review.
A hearty congratulations to Crystal Feimster, Associate Professor of African American Studies and American Studies, who has recently received this year’s Graduate Mentor...