Research Capstone Course This course explores the near-ubiquitous presence of melodramatic form in modern culture. It will examine melodrama to open up critical questions about the inter-relationship of politics, aesthetics, social injustice, and the place of media in society. The course will draw o...
I am a comparatist by training, post-colonialist through theory, and a cultural materialist in reading texts. But above all, I am an Arabist, with deep investment in classical texts, the literary features of the Qur'an, and the rise of Arabic literary theory concomitant with the birth of i‘jaz al-Qur...
The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2023 and spring 2024 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2023-24 annual theme, "Democracy, Disposability, and Repair." Congratulations to all of our new faculty and graduate fellows! Learn more abou...
How do you imagine a future that you were never meant to be in – and what is the power in doing so? This class explores Indigenous speculative fiction from the twentieth century to the present, reading novels, stories, and films that deploy speculation as a vital tool for decolonization. Reading acro...
Ian Sinnett (Cultural Studies) was a CHR 2023 Summer Research and Residential Fellow who spent this Fall developing his project "Hip Hop Sampling and the Aesthetic Repair of Spatiotemporal Disjuncture." Ian helped us better understand his project by explaining that "I've always been interested in mu...
The Center for Humanities Research is pleased to announce its fall 2022 and spring 2023 cohorts. All were chosen to work on research projects related to CHR's 2022-23 annual theme, "Connecting/Not Connecting: Formations of Community, Solidarity, Alienation, Antipathy." Congratulations to our third c...
