Media Mentions

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.

NEH, NEA give more than $2 million in grants for humanities and art projects in Illinois
Chicago Tribune
Victoria Saramago (Romance Languages and Literatures) has been awarded a $60,000 NEH Fellowship for her proposed book about the cultural legacy of electrification in Brazil from the 1930s to the present.

What to know about 'Naatu Naatu,' the song that beat out Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga at Golden Globes
NBC News
Rochona Majumdar (Cinema and Media Studies) is interviewed about the Indian film "RRR," which includes the song "Naatu Naatu" that won a Golden Globe award for best original song.

Yukihiro Takahashi, Pioneer of Electronic Pop Music, Dies at 70
The New York Times
Michael K. Bourdaghs (East Asian Languages and Civilizations) says that Yukihiro Takahashi, a pioneer of electronic pop music, “was remarkably skilled at taking what were obviously artificial, technologically mediated sounds and using them to build songs that sound fully and organically human.”

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.

Scepter and Sword: African Warrior Queens
Women who Went Before
Janet H. Johnson (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) praised in this podcast that features UChicago Alumna Dr. Solange Ashby, President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Egyptology and Nubian Religion (UCLA). Prof. Johnson was Dr. Ashby's dissertation chair.

Theaster Gates Transforms the New Museum into a Church of Memories and Music
Artsy
“Young Lords and Their Traces,” Theaster Gates’s (Department of Visual Arts) first museum survey exhibition, asks and answers the question of how the everyday life of communities can be represented through objects.

“That Little Click in the Mind”: Vijay Seshadri Reflects on his Tenure as the Review’s Poetry Editor
The Paris Review
Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy (English Language and Literature) is introduced in this article as the new editor for The Paris Review, by the outgoing editor Vijay Seshadri.

Out of unbearable loss, a vision of radical hope
The Washington Post
Jonathan Lear (Philosophy) featured in this review of his new book, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life (see book cover above), which “shows us how to engage in the world with extraordinary care.”