Wednesday, February 26, 2025 4-5:15pm PNE 339 Open to the public. Speakers: Bonnie Miller (Professor of History, UMass Boston) and Betsy Klima (Professor of English, UMass Boston; Associate Editor of The New England Quarterly) Learn about how UMass Boston’s High-Impact Humanities initiatve centered skills, professionalization, community engagement, and experiential learning in humanities courses.
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BASIRA as a Tool for Humanities Curriculum
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 4-5pm FND 120 Speaker: Barbara Williams Ellertson Barbara Williams Ellertson started her second career as an independent scholar in 2014 with the founding of the BASIRA Project: a database collection of “Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art.” During her first career in academic publishing, she designed and produced hundreds of books for […]
Criticism, Close Reading, & the Future of Literary Studies
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 4-5pm FND 120 Speaker: Jonathan Kramnick Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University. His teaching and research are in the foundations of literary criticism and theory, eighteenth-century literature, and interdisciplinary approaches to the arts. He has written extensively about the role […]
Engaging Undergraduate Researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences: Toronto’s Scholars-in-Residence
Monday, September 23, 2024 12:45-2pm Zoom Speaker: Angela Esterhammer Angela Esterhammer is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where she served as Principal of Victoria College from 2012 to 2024 and as Founding Director of the Jackman Scholars-in-Residence program since 2016. She is the author of four monographs in the field of British […]
TSSL Open House & Mochi Donuts
Friday, November 8, 2024 3-4pm FND 124 A first-gen student appreciation event. Drop in to learn about Mellon-funded student research opportunities in the humanities and enjoy mochi donuts.