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Before becoming Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor at Stanford in 2000, Professor Martin taught Classics for eighteen years at Princeton University.
Reuland's research focuses on the intellectual and political history of music in the medieval Mediterranean, and on the intersection of musical texts, oral culture, and spirituality in the later…
Pentcheva’s first book, Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium, Penn State Press 2006 explored through an anthropological lens the structure of the cult of the Virgin in…
With the increasing availability of editions, images, online materials, simulacra, facsimiles, and immersive experiences what, in today’s academy, constitutes a primary source?
Poetry Out Loud (POL) is a poetry performance competition hosted by the English and Creative Writing Departments in which contestants are judged on their vocal delivery of well-known poetry for…
With Vasile Stanescu, Wayne Hsiung, & Robert Pogue Harrison
This two-day conference will bring together literary critics, historians, and musicologists to reconsider the coherence of the historical period from the execution of Charles I in 1649 to the…
Join novelist and filmmaker, Ruth Ozeki, who will be reading from her latest work, "A Tale for the Time Being."
Johannes Voelz (Associate Professor of American Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany; Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity,…
Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York, a second-generation American of Italian descent.