Multidisciplinary scholar and artist Anya Yermakova joins the Center for the Humanities for 2022–24 as an Emerging Voices Fellow. Her “nonlinear” CV reflects a multidisciplinary research agenda energized by the synthesis of disparate worlds.
Curator Skye Lacerte pulls out three comics from the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library — Batman: The Killing Joke, Eightball 22 and Elektra, Assassin — and recaps the history and outcomes of their challenges.
Big news for the humanities center! We’ll start the new academic year with a new director at the helm: Stephanie Kirk.
The Center for the Humanities announces the recipient of its 2022 International Humanities Prize, cartoonist-memoirist Alison Bechdel. A lecture and award ceremony will take place Nov. 9 on the Washington University campus.
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!
James McMullan, illustrator, ‘Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood’
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The humanities center facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.
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