Center for the Arts and Humanities

Honoring Health Care Workers from a Kitchen Studio

On Toni Morrison and Radically Reimagining

Thinking through theater, pandemics, and productivity with Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven.

The Structural Intimacies of LGBTQ Transnational Kinship

Facing the twin pandemics with James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time

In this blog post, Daniel Press reflects on a memorable high school English class he took in 1978, taught by a unique teacher named Dan Ward. The class was small, meeting in a smoky teacher's lounge, and focused on dystopian novels. They read works like "A Canticle for Leibowitz," "We," "Anthem," "1984," and some of Kurt Vonnegut's writings. Press shares a photo from that time, featuring a distinctive tuxedo shirt and oversized velvet bowtie, providing a visual snapshot of his high school experience.

Passing of indigenous actor represents the more visible end of a complex, centuries-long story of oppression and neglect

What is the role of music in times of crisis?

Poetry, the Pandemic, and Prisoners

What is the role of music in times of crisis?