What does a philosopher do? Junior faculty members in UChicago's philosophy department discuss their work, inspiration, and teaching.

Meet three PhD students who are launching lives as scholars: (from left) Jose Antonio Arellano in English; Caroline Schopp in art history, and V. Joshua Adams, AM'02, in comparative literature.

A UChicago scholar talks about redefining African American literature and making the novel Invisible Man visible onstage.

Fueled by the tea he drank at street-side stalls—and in his Iowa kitchen—Philip Lutgendorf traces the rise of chai, India’s “proletarian beverage par excellence.”

When soldiers return to civilian life, they are often surrounded by people who haven’t shared their experiences. Three veterans who traded military service in Iraq for graduate studies in the humanities share their stories.