Media Mentions

Media Mentions April 2024

The latest media mentions, quotes, profiles, and writings from Division of the Humanities faculty, students, staff, and alumni. Visit us on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook for more updates

Sakamoto - Art Is Long, Life Is Short
BBC Sounds
Michael Bourdaghs (East Asian Languages and Civilizations) reflects on Ryuichi Sakamoto's legacy by examining his music's intersection with postwar Japanese society, and his influence on global perceptions of Japanese music and art.

Why Do Millennials Feel Compelled To Write 'Lol' After Everything?
HUFFPOST
Anna-Marie Sprenger, PhD student in Lingustics, discusses how “lol,” a little word commonly used by millennials, is what linguists like to call a "discourse marker."

What Taylor Swift's cultural impact looks like to fans
NPR’s All Things Considered
Paula Harper (Music) discusses the launch of Taylor Swift’s latest album, "The Tortured Poets Department," unpacking Swift's cultural impact. Harper is currently co-editing a book on Taylor Swift and her fans.

Poetry of the Americas
The Roundtable Perspective
Rachel Galvin (English Language and Literature) discusses the importance of Latinx poetry, self-translation, and the shifting dynamics of how poetry in the Americas is viewed through translation.

Media Mentions December 2023

The latest media mentions, quotes, profiles, and writings from Division of the Humanities faculty, students, staff, and alumni. Visit us on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook for more updates

Pope.L, Provocative Performance Artist, Dies at 68
The New York Times
A tribute to William Pope.L 1955‒2023 (Visual Arts). "the impact of his work came less from the literal sense of its surface contents, which could be difficult to decode, than from its sheer intensity, and from his willingness to say and do things others wouldn’t. Especially when performing, he used his own bodily presence to shock viewers back into their own."

Pope.L, Daredevil Artist Who Invoked Heady Ideas About Blackness, Dies at 68
Art News
A tribute to William Pope.L 1955‒2023 (Visual Arts). "A 2018 profile of Pope.L that appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine said that he was 'inarguably the greatest performance artist of our time.'"

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