The College Announces New Curricular Initiatives in the Humanities
The two initiatives, Signature Courses and Course Clusters, will broaden opportunities for interdisciplinary study among undergraduates.
Faculty
Biography Examines Political Motivations of Montaigne
Romance Languages and Literatures professor Philippe Desan claims scholars have a romanticized image of French philosopher’s solitary existence.
Transmedia Story Lab to Reframe Narratives of Chicago’s South Side
The Transmedia Story Lab (TSL) has been awarded a $110,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a historical transmedia project that illustrates how a climate of structural violence has impacted the health and wellbeing of black adolescents on Chicago’s South Side.
Justin Steinberg Awarded NEH Fellowship
Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures awarded fellowship to pursue his research project on the simultaneous rise of legal procedure and realism in fourteenth-century Italian literature.