Media Mentions

Media Mentions December 2022

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.

Featured Poet: Rachel DeWoskin
Arrowsmith Press
Rachel DeWoskin (English Language and Literature) was selected as Arrowsmith Press's featured poet, Volume XXI.

Do Humans Owe Animals Equal Rights? Martha Nussbaum Thinks So
The New York Times
Martha C. Nussbaum (Law and Philosophy) interviewed on her recent book "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Reponsibility" (See book cover above).

Justice for Animals: Martha C. Nussbaum on Law, Ethics, and our Collective Responsibility
Storytelling Animals
Martha C. Nussbaum (Law and Philosophy) discusses her new book "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" in this podcast interview.

Hyde Parkers Work to Resettle Academic Refugees
Hyde Park Herald
Christine Mehring (Art History) featured in this article about academic refugees who have received support from the Hyde Park Refugee Project, the University of Chicago (which is part of a global network of colleges and universities called Scholars at Risk), and other volunteers and donors.

January 4, 2023

Media Mentions November 2022

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.”

November 23, 2022

Media Mentions October 2022

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.

Looking (and Looking Again) at Black Film History
Library of Congress
Allyson Nadia Field (Cinema and Media Studies) and Cara Cadoo (Indiana University) discovered the earliest surviving fragment of Black-produced cinema—made four years before the earliest known surviving footage.

Local Color on View in Show About Modernism and Monochromatic Art
WTTW
Christine Mehring (Art History) featured in this video about Monochrome Multitudes, an exhibition she co-curated, now open at the Smart Museum of Art.

Seven poems that make you stop and appreciate Chicago
WBEZ Chicago
Rachel DeWoskin (English Language and Literature) was  invited to the WBEZ studios to read her poem "chance, chicago," which was included in the poetry anthology “Wherever I’m At.”

The Literary Aesthetic and Reading for the Other
The Wire
Martha C. Nussbaum (Law and Philosophy) and Sianne Ngai (English Language and Literature) are mentioned in this article about literary aesthetics, literary studies, literature's possibilities and what it can shape or generate.

October 28, 2022

Media Mentions September 2022

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

Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show
The New York Times
Jessica Stockholder (Visual Arts) was mentioned in this article about the Armory Show’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash Booth, where she presented some of her sculptures.

Roberts Lecture ‘22 with Agnes Callard
The Dickinsonian
Agnes Callard (Philosophy) delivered the annual Christopher Roberts Lectures on Sept 23, and 24, titled “What is Free Speech?” and “Socratic Love.”

Ling Ma’s Continual State of Return
Vanity Fair
Article favorably reviews Ling Ma's novel, Severance, and her recent book of short stories, Bliss Montage.

September 15, 2022

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