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Stanford Global Studies has awarded three Stanford faculty members Course Innovation Grants, which support courses that creatively offer ways for students to learn about topics of regional and global importance.

by Alex Shashkevich

Over summer quarter, a group of students visited a fantasy world of trolls, ogres, dragons, witches and fairies in a new Stanford humanities course.

Fantastical creatures inhabit many of today’s popular novels,…

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by Alex Shashkevich on June 17, 2019 3:03 pm

The American Studies Association created a new prize and named it for Stanford’s English Professor SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN.

Fishkin, the Joseph S. Atha Professor in the Humanities and…

by Kate Chelsey

Student journalists who reported on the effects of the Camp Fire in Northern California and on the university’s partnerships with Saudi Arabian institutions have been awarded James S. Robinson Awards for Student…

 

John L’Heureux directed the highly regarded Stanford Creative Writing Program and the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship program, where his proteges included, among many others, National Medal of Arts…