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David Levine's holographic film "Dissolution" reviewed in The New York Times

February 1, 2024

David Levine's "Dissolution" was reviewed in a New York Times article entitled "What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in February." An excerpt is included below: 

"Every time the gap between homo sapiens and technology narrows — like now, with A.I. — humans panic. David Levine’s curious technological sculpture, 'Dissolution' (2022), reminds us that we are not alone, historically, in feeling this way. Inspired by 1980s television shows and movies like 'Tron' (1982), in which a hacker is sucked into the digital universe, and Max Headroom, a...

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To address climate anxiety, colleges embrace environmental humanities

February 1, 2024

"A dozen Harvard students huddled around a table — their laptops open — trying to find new words to redefine a phenomenon they've seen happening their whole lives: climate change.

That's the assignment on this December morning: invent futuristic words for a world in the throes of climate change.

'Catastrohood,' said junior Sabrina Freidus. It's a word describing a particularly tight-knit community formed in response to a disaster.

Other students offered their own: 'pralayakam' and 'Climate-self' to the delight of English professor Sarah Dimick...

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Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare in Bloomsbury among Boston Globe's Best Books of 2023

January 25, 2024
Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, was included on The Boston Globe's list of the best books of 2023. A description of her book is included below: 

"The eminent Harvard scholar weaves together a meeting of three beautiful minds: Virginia Woolf, the genius of the Bloomsbury set; Shakespeare, whose words and spirit rarely strayed from the group’s consciousness; and the author herself, a gifted connector of literary dots. The result is a very palpable hit." 

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Homi Bhabha's Curatorial Work for "RETROaction"

January 25, 2024

Homi Bhabha recently spoke to the New York Times about his curatorial work for the Hauser & Wirth exhibition "RETROaction." The show celebrates the 30th anniversary of the 1993 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and ‘Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism,’ at the University Art Gallery (UAG), University of California, Irvine.

"RETROaction" ran from November 15, 2023 - January 27, 2024 at Hauser & Wirth, New York, 69th Street, and will open on February 27, 2024 at Hauser & Wirth,...

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Paul Yoon's The Hive and the Honey Selected as Finalist for the Story Prize

January 25, 2024

Senior Lecturer Paul Yoon's The Hive and the Honey was selected as one of three finalists for the Story Prize, "a $20,000 book prize awarded to the author of the short story collection named best of the year by three independent judges." The three finalists are included below:

  • Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims (Two Dollar Radio)
  • The Hive and the Honey by Paul Yoon (Marysue Rucci Books). ...
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Beth Blum Featured on the Embodied Podcast

January 25, 2024
During a recent interview with the North Carolina Public Radio and the Embodied Podcast, Beth Blum spoke about the history of the self-help industry and its evolution.

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Boston Globe Discusses Vanessa Braganza's Archival Research

January 25, 2024
"Louis May Alcott was heartsick when she checked into the old Hotel Bellevue in Boston. It was April 1880, and Alcott was mourning the death of her sister May, who'd died unexpectedly a few months earlier. 

Alcott was by then one of the country's best-known writers, a household name following the triumph of her novel "Little Women." But that April, as if summoning simpler times, she returned to playwriting, a literary form she'd embraced in childhood, writing dramas her sisters had performed. Newly bereft and holed up at the inn on Beacon Hill, Alcott began a dramatization of... Read more about Boston Globe Discusses Vanessa Braganza's Archival Research
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Kelly M. Rich Announced as a Winner of MLA Prize

December 8, 2023
“The Modern Language Association of America has announced the winners of the second Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection. Kelly M. Rich, associate professor of English at Harvard University; Nicole M. Rizzuto, associate professor of English at Georgetown University; and Susan Zieger, professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, will receive the award for The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure: Race, Affect, Environment, published by Northwestern University Press.” 
 
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A Harvard Professor Prepares to Teach a New Subject: Taylor Swift

December 8, 2023

The New York Times recently interviewed Stephanie Burt about her course, "Taylor Swift and Her World." The article delves into Professor Burt's affinity for Swift's songs and the coursework students will complete. An excerpt is included below: 

"The syllabus is much like what one might expect from an undergraduate English course, with texts by William Wordsworth, Willa Cather and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But there is one name on the list that might surprise budding scholars.

Taylor Swift.

In the spring semester,...

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Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson

December 8, 2023
Teju Cole joins The New Yorker's fiction editor Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “1=1,” by Anne Carson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Cole’s novels include “Open City” and “Tremor,” which was published this year.

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