In conversation with professor Alia Crum, Sakamoto explores the psychology of how our everyday mindsets shape meaning.

PRODUCTION - 29 December 2022, Hessen, Frankfurt/Main: A stack of newly published books lies on a sales table in a bookstore in the Bornheim district. Reluctance to buy due to ongoing inflation and ...

F or the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing course, but it also introduces ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. But the arguments used to justify both the active dismantling and the long-term disinvestment ...

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was lit, COVID-19 was still a mysterious respiratory illness in Wuhan, and I was a Ph.D. candidate in a dying field: comparative literature. I was getting ready ...

The death of the humanities. The undying "well, what are you planning on doing with that?" This perceived ‘death’ has plagued students in these fields for as long as they decided that math, science ...

Cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities could have a trickle-down effect on Illinois museums, history programs and higher education. An abrupt cessation of federal humanities funding will ...