Media Mentions June 2023
The latest media mentions, quotes, profiles, and writings from Division of the Humanities faculty, students, staff, and alumni. Visit us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook for more updates
No longer ‘the place where fun goes to die’: The dean who changed University of Chicago steps down
Chicago Tribune
Eric Slauter (English Language and Literature) Comments on Dean Boyer's leadership in transforming UChicago's Core curriculum in the 1990s and how it helped sustain a place for liberal arts.
Individual variability in subcortical neural encoding shapes phonetic cue weighting
Nature
Alan C.L. Yu (Linguistics), Ming Xiang (Linguistics), and Jinghua Ou (Postdoctoral scholar in Linguistics) published this article in Nature, Scientific Reports showing that the nature of neural encoding at the sub-cortical level affects listeners' responses to vowel contrasts.
“Read it for restoratives”: Pericles and the Romance of Whiteness
Early Theatre
Noémie Ndiaye (English Language and Literature) wrote this essay that reads Pericles (1608) through the lens of early modern critical whiteness studies, underlining the relevance of Pericles’s quest through Shakespeare’s cultural moment.