In Chris A. Eng’s current book project, he examines the persistence and prevalence of the Asiatic appearing varyingly as backdrop, prop or minor characters across LGBTQ cultural productions such as “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Rachael DeWitt, scholar of American literature and environmental humanities, joined the Center for the Humanities for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship.
Ahead of the 2024 Holocaust Memorial Lecture on Nov. 12, Erin McGlothlin elucidates the neglected Holocaust site of Treblinka, whose history has been veiled by language barriers and a shockingly low survival rate.
With her latest book project, Faculty Fellow Tabea Linhard examines the stories of real-life women suspected of spycraft in the 20th century.
The human fingerprint maps our identity, the ties that bind us, the lingering traces we leave on this earth. As humanists, we explore the durability as well as the fragility of the human condition — opening windows onto worlds near to home and oceans away, worlds we interpret through stories and images, poems and performance, history and narratives, sounds and silence. At Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for the Humanities facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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Pursuing new scholarly ideas about the world takes funding — whether it's for a two-month tour of research sites in Japan or a two-week trip to an archive to view materials available only there — that can be hard to find via regular channels. The Center for the Humanities fills this gap with a number of funding opportunities for Washington University faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Learn more about their stories!
Araba A.Z. Osei-Tutu, Lecturer, Department of Teacher Education, School of Education and Leadership, University of Ghana
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