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The man and the March

The man and the March

The caliph’s counselor

The caliph’s counselor

Peace of mind: The science and philosophy of mental health

Peace of mind: The science and philosophy of mental health

Glitter bombs and green queens: Nicole Seymour’s irreverent take on environmental humanities

Glitter bombs and green queens: Nicole Seymour’s irreverent take on environmental humanities

How a Haitian Rap Album Says More About Napoleon’s Colonial Legacy Than Ridley Scott’s Film

How a Haitian Rap Album Says More About Napoleon’s Colonial Legacy Than Ridley Scott’s Film

In digital worlds and on physical stages, directors invite audiences into the story

In digital worlds and on physical stages, directors invite audiences into the story

Dispatches from the ‘other’ France

Dispatches from the ‘other’ France

Modernist physiognomy

Modernist physiognomy

The politics of time: The lessons of Sabbath for seeking justice

The politics of time: The lessons of Sabbath for seeking justice

Still we rise…and we are tired

Still we rise…and we are tired

Appetite for oppression

Appetite for oppression

Stellar literary networks

Stellar literary networks

Unearthing plantation violence

Unearthing plantation violence

Rwanda’s privatized polis and the people in the path of progress

Rwanda’s privatized polis and the people in the path of progress

‘Kasa’: Celebrating women’s journeys in Korea

‘Kasa’: Celebrating women’s journeys in Korea

The forgotten wall

The forgotten wall

Florida v. Black studies: An insider’s overview

Florida v. Black studies: An insider’s overview

On ‘Derry Girls’ and remembering the Good Friday Agreement

On ‘Derry Girls’ and remembering the Good Friday Agreement

When worldviews collide

When worldviews collide

On the ‘ugliness’ of whiteness

On the ‘ugliness’ of whiteness

From ‘pétroleuse’ to pornstar, the radical theorizing of sex workers

From ‘pétroleuse’ to pornstar, the radical theorizing of sex workers

‘Very careful’ in the Ivory Tower may not be enough

‘Very careful’ in the Ivory Tower may not be enough

The joy of being the weakest link

The joy of being the weakest link

Pitching the humanities on the Hill

Pitching the humanities on the Hill

The World Cup of paradoxes

The World Cup of paradoxes

Social hierarchies and domination

Social hierarchies and domination

Algerian anonymity: The impact of image and language past and present

Algerian anonymity: The impact of image and language past and present

Teaching modernity in the mountains

Teaching modernity in the mountains

Ukraine and a forgotten chapter in Holocaust history

Ukraine and a forgotten chapter in Holocaust history

The spark for ‘Fire Ecologies’

The spark for ‘Fire Ecologies’

‘WashU is not for us’: Universities embracing the public good

‘WashU is not for us’: Universities embracing the public good

Learning from Haiti’s classical music culture

Learning from Haiti’s classical music culture

Why do comics get banned?

Why do comics get banned?

Research, revise, repeat: Training the academy’s next scholars

Research, revise, repeat: Training the academy’s next scholars

Real estate and the hidden history of the U.S. AIDS epidemic

Real estate and the hidden history of the U.S. AIDS epidemic

Finding James Merrill in the archive

Finding James Merrill in the archive

Dining with ‘nobles, gluttons, opportunists, heirs to thrones, the smart, and the good-for-nothing’

Dining with ‘nobles, gluttons, opportunists, heirs to thrones, the smart, and the good-for-nothing’

Our senses as sources of value

Our senses as sources of value

An insider’s look at the African Film Festival

An insider’s look at the African Film Festival

Old and new fault lines in the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine

Old and new fault lines in the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine

People get ready

People get ready

Sounds of street protest

Sounds of street protest

The magic in his hands: Charles Johnson’s artistic versatility

The magic in his hands: Charles Johnson’s artistic versatility

How to constitute a nation

How to constitute a nation

A muse of early America

A muse of early America

What now? The afterlives of Zika and COVID-19

What now? The afterlives of Zika and COVID-19

Present at the creation

Present at the creation

The Spanish conquest of Mexico as viewed through a Jewish lens

The Spanish conquest of Mexico as viewed through a Jewish lens

The witch’s challenge

The witch’s challenge

Muslim women on the minbar

Muslim women on the minbar

Elucidating ‘alternative academia’

Elucidating ‘alternative academia’

A scholar in the game

A scholar in the game

What was ‘race’ in ancient Rome?

What was ‘race’ in ancient Rome?

Gerald Early on Black studies at WashU and one of its early champions: McLeod lecture preview

Gerald Early on Black studies at WashU and one of its early champions: McLeod lecture preview

Transnational literature in the age of nationalism

Transnational literature in the age of nationalism

Rule long and prosper: Advice for the ages, from the Sages

Rule long and prosper: Advice for the ages, from the Sages

How the Black Death made life better

How the Black Death made life better

‘Promising Young Woman’ and the desire for endings

‘Promising Young Woman’ and the desire for endings

Toward a populist environmentalism

Toward a populist environmentalism

Fast notes on the FOIA film

Fast notes on the FOIA film

Archiving the COVID-19 experience at Washington University

Archiving the COVID-19 experience at Washington University

Another lesson from the Griot: How community-university partnerships can grow and evolve

Another lesson from the Griot: How community-university partnerships can grow and evolve

An anthropologist takes on academia’s attraction to complexity

An anthropologist takes on academia’s attraction to complexity

When retirement disappears

When retirement disappears

Egypt’s Arab Spring at 10: The work of political anniversaries

Egypt’s Arab Spring at 10: The work of political anniversaries

All cooped up: Caste in ‘The White Tiger’

All cooped up: Caste in ‘The White Tiger’

Inhabiting the Iron Curtain: What sexuality can teach us about cultural belonging

Inhabiting the Iron Curtain: What sexuality can teach us about cultural belonging

Happening in the kitchen: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor cooks up Black arts

Happening in the kitchen: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor cooks up Black arts

Comedy and gender through the centuries

Comedy and gender through the centuries

On legacies of violence, genocide, and implicated subjects: Arts and museums as influence and response

On legacies of violence, genocide, and implicated subjects: Arts and museums as influence and response

Making sense of the racial divergence of AIDS and COVID-19

Making sense of the racial divergence of AIDS and COVID-19

Get real: On the risks of authenticity

Get real: On the risks of authenticity

Norwegian encounters with the world’s music makers

Norwegian encounters with the world’s music makers

There is an unnamed horror in ‘Lovecraft Country’

There is an unnamed horror in ‘Lovecraft Country’

Divorce all’italiano: Tracking Rome’s 17th-century black widows

Divorce all’italiano: Tracking Rome’s 17th-century black widows

Presidential transitions, new traditions

Presidential transitions, new traditions

Licensed thrills: The art of the James Bond franchise

Licensed thrills: The art of the James Bond franchise

‘Quarantine envy’ could finally wake people up to the deep inequalities that pervade American life

‘Quarantine envy’ could finally wake people up to the deep inequalities that pervade American life

‘Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist’: The promise of the Belarusian protest movement

‘Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist’: The promise of the Belarusian protest movement

Poetry for all

Poetry for all

What is Public Health Education and Why is it Important? What History Can Tell Us

What is Public Health Education and Why is it Important? What History Can Tell Us

Global Airport Infrastructure and Yellow Fever in Transition-Era Nairobi

Global Airport Infrastructure and Yellow Fever in Transition-Era Nairobi

Trauma: Beyond PTSD and Pathological Closure in Contemporary Literature

Trauma: Beyond PTSD and Pathological Closure in Contemporary Literature

Is Envy OK? Is Love Laudable? What Medieval Texts Tell Us About Emotions

Is Envy OK? Is Love Laudable? What Medieval Texts Tell Us About Emotions

The Career of a Medieval Accusation in an Age of Science

The Career of a Medieval Accusation in an Age of Science

Home Work: Inside the Lives of Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel

Home Work: Inside the Lives of Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel

‘Truths and Reckonings’: A Pop-up Memorial Museum

‘Truths and Reckonings’: A Pop-up Memorial Museum

U.S. Empire and the War on Drugs in the Philippines

U.S. Empire and the War on Drugs in the Philippines

Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment

Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment

Daphne A. Brooks and the History of Black Women’s ‘Radical Musicianship’

Daphne A. Brooks and the History of Black Women’s ‘Radical Musicianship’

Matisse and Slow Looking

Matisse and Slow Looking

A War With Words: How Spain’s Women Lobbied Against Slavery in Cuba

A War With Words: How Spain’s Women Lobbied Against Slavery in Cuba

On Borders and Unnatural ‘Natural’ Deaths

On Borders and Unnatural ‘Natural’ Deaths

The City Electric: How Mexico City’s People Shaped Its Electrified Future

The City Electric: How Mexico City’s People Shaped Its Electrified Future

The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Political Movement Overlooked by 30th Anniversary Celebrations

The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Political Movement Overlooked by 30th Anniversary Celebrations

On Translating Beckett’s Minimalism

On Translating Beckett’s Minimalism

Ai Weiwei: Displacement and Replacement

Ai Weiwei: Displacement and Replacement

Self-Knowledge as a Tool for Humanities PhDs to Combat Career Bias and Achieve Post-Doctoral Career Fulfillment

Self-Knowledge as a Tool for Humanities PhDs to Combat Career Bias and Achieve Post-Doctoral Career Fulfillment

Ovid’s ‘Ibis’: Out of Exile

Ovid’s ‘Ibis’: Out of Exile

Liquid Borders: Toward a Close Examination of Migratory Issues

Liquid Borders: Toward a Close Examination of Migratory Issues

On George Sanchez

On George Sanchez

One Sweet Dream: ‘Abbey Road’ at Fifty

One Sweet Dream: ‘Abbey Road’ at Fifty

A Literary Anatomy: Student Exhibit Analyzed ‘Frankenstein’ Book by Book

A Literary Anatomy: Student Exhibit Analyzed ‘Frankenstein’ Book by Book

Three Things You Should Know About Islam and Muslims

Three Things You Should Know About Islam and Muslims

The Feuding Physician of Ancient Rome

The Feuding Physician of Ancient Rome

Artists, United: The Radical Origin of a Film Corporation

Artists, United: The Radical Origin of a Film Corporation

200 Years On, ‘The Vampyre’ Still Thrills

200 Years On, ‘The Vampyre’ Still Thrills

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film Study: Film Exhibition

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film Study: Film Exhibition

Baby Talk: Listening to the ‘Little Guy’ in Medieval French Literature

Baby Talk: Listening to the ‘Little Guy’ in Medieval French Literature

Tradition and Transformation: Clara Schumann and the Creation of Classical Music

Tradition and Transformation: Clara Schumann and the Creation of Classical Music

Afro-Surrealism: What Black Is and Can Be

Afro-Surrealism: What Black Is and Can Be

Routine Maintenance: Caroline Levine on the Forms That Sustain

Routine Maintenance: Caroline Levine on the Forms That Sustain

Lights, Camera, (Instagram), Action! Immersive Experiences and Digital Space

Lights, Camera, (Instagram), Action! Immersive Experiences and Digital Space

Omitted History

Omitted History

Living With Others

Living With Others

Jonah and the Whale: ‘Mid90s’ Tangents

Jonah and the Whale: ‘Mid90s’ Tangents

Speaker Preview: Marilynne Robinson

Speaker Preview: Marilynne Robinson

Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ and Its Archive of Outtakes

Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ and Its Archive of Outtakes

Rethinking Monsters

Rethinking Monsters

Ancient Theater Gets Its Groove Back

Ancient Theater Gets Its Groove Back

A Conversation with Cathy Davidson: On the Digital in the Humanities and Her Journey to Revolutionize Higher Ed

A Conversation with Cathy Davidson: On the Digital in the Humanities and Her Journey to Revolutionize Higher Ed

Antifascist Writers on the Run

Antifascist Writers on the Run

Dancing Between Love and Rage

Dancing Between Love and Rage

Remembering the German ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ in Belarus

Remembering the German ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ in Belarus

Do Microbes Have Politics?

Do Microbes Have Politics?

What Do Latinxs and Asian Americans Have in Common? Look to Their Literature

What Do Latinxs and Asian Americans Have in Common? Look to Their Literature

The Supermarket of Israeli Literature: A Festschrift

The Supermarket of Israeli Literature: A Festschrift

Why Movie History Matters: David Bordwell and Film Studies, Yesterday and Today

Why Movie History Matters: David Bordwell and Film Studies, Yesterday and Today

A New ‘Wrinkle’

A New ‘Wrinkle’

‘How We Listen Shapes How We View the World’: The Radio Drama in Post-WWII Germany

‘How We Listen Shapes How We View the World’: The Radio Drama in Post-WWII Germany

Painting New Pictures

Painting New Pictures

‘And All Our Past Decades Have Seen Revolutions’: The Long Decolonization of Black Panther

‘And All Our Past Decades Have Seen Revolutions’: The Long Decolonization of Black Panther

Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist

Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist

Talking About Voice and Performance

Talking About Voice and Performance

Keep It Moving: Transience, Debility and the Management of Homelessness

Keep It Moving: Transience, Debility and the Management of Homelessness

Faculty for the Next Generation

Faculty for the Next Generation

Disobedient Reading: A Long Look Over Black Life

Disobedient Reading: A Long Look Over Black Life

Showing Up for Black Women, Black People and Black Protest: Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’ ‘Whose Streets’

Showing Up for Black Women, Black People and Black Protest: Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’ ‘Whose Streets’

‘A Time to Lift One’s Voice’: The East St. Louis Riot in a Migration Perspective

‘A Time to Lift One’s Voice’: The East St. Louis Riot in a Migration Perspective

On “Alternative Academic” Careers in the Humanities

On “Alternative Academic” Careers in the Humanities

Writing a New Kind of Western Music

Writing a New Kind of Western Music

A Seat at the Table: Sara Ahmed and the Politics of Knowledge Production

A Seat at the Table: Sara Ahmed and the Politics of Knowledge Production

The Monster Who Will Not Leave Us

The Monster Who Will Not Leave Us

Technology of Memory: How We Remember and How We Forget

Technology of Memory: How We Remember and How We Forget

No Place Like Home: St. Louis’ Eminent Domain History

No Place Like Home: St. Louis’ Eminent Domain History

Public and Urban Humanities Fellows Join Humanities Center

Public and Urban Humanities Fellows Join Humanities Center

Close Enough? Reasoning Mistakes Great and Small

Close Enough? Reasoning Mistakes Great and Small

Why Academics (Still) Love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'

Why Academics (Still) Love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'

An Unknown Architect of the Black Aesthetics Movement

An Unknown Architect of the Black Aesthetics Movement

Washington Park Cemetery: From Hallowed to Hollowed Ground

Washington Park Cemetery: From Hallowed to Hollowed Ground

Revolution in the Reels: Filming Japan’s Interwar Struggle

Revolution in the Reels: Filming Japan’s Interwar Struggle

Reviving James Baldwin and Repeopling the Civil Rights Movement: Raoul Peck’s ‘I Am Not Your Negro’

Reviving James Baldwin and Repeopling the Civil Rights Movement: Raoul Peck’s ‘I Am Not Your Negro’

The Secret Scribes of Modernist Lives

The Secret Scribes of Modernist Lives

‘A Poetic Processing of New Media Phenomena’: A Look at the 20th-Century German Avant-Gardes

‘A Poetic Processing of New Media Phenomena’: A Look at the 20th-Century German Avant-Gardes

Progress and Pitfalls in Bolivia’s Natural Gas Bonanza

Progress and Pitfalls in Bolivia’s Natural Gas Bonanza

Live from the Pampas! Nationalism and Narrative at the Creole Circus

Live from the Pampas! Nationalism and Narrative at the Creole Circus

Seasons in the City: Tracing the Pace of 19th-Century China

Seasons in the City: Tracing the Pace of 19th-Century China

What Makes a Democrat? Staging Political Transformation in 1950s West German Film

What Makes a Democrat? Staging Political Transformation in 1950s West German Film

‘Race’ Gives History the Runaround

‘Race’ Gives History the Runaround

Melancholy and the Musician: An Ethnographic Study of Classical Turkish Performers

Melancholy and the Musician: An Ethnographic Study of Classical Turkish Performers

The Cunning of Brahmanism: Invisibility Has Its Privileges

The Cunning of Brahmanism: Invisibility Has Its Privileges

Meet the Nuns of the 17th-Century Spanish New World (Or, Dark Drama in the Nunnery)

Meet the Nuns of the 17th-Century Spanish New World (Or, Dark Drama in the Nunnery)

Organic Origin Story: Tracing the History of “Natural” Eating

Organic Origin Story: Tracing the History of “Natural” Eating

Mexico, Cosmopolitanism and World Literature

Mexico, Cosmopolitanism and World Literature

More than the Monster: Holocaust Perpetrators in Literature and Film

More than the Monster: Holocaust Perpetrators in Literature and Film

Rumormongering and Seditious Talk: “Unofficial Voices” Retell Chinese Cold War History

Rumormongering and Seditious Talk: “Unofficial Voices” Retell Chinese Cold War History

Message Received: Paul Steinbeck on the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Message Received: Paul Steinbeck on the Art Ensemble of Chicago