Drawing by Rene Descartes

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Two perspectives on time

An anthropological poet and a physics-oriented philosopher tackle a basic structure of human experience.
A drawing from Leonardo's skull studies of 1489.

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alumna profile

Neuroaesthetics

Christine Zappella Papanastassiou explores color in the history of art—and in the brain.
Monica Do and Erik Zyman are among the five junior faculty members in the Department of Linguistics.

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Generative research

Producing sentences and identities with Linguistics junior faculty
A painting that Daisy Rockwell created for the cover of a book she translated into English

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humanities in the world

Do they say “dude” in India?

Daisy Rockwell, winner of the International Booker Prize, on the subtleties of literary translation

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Janel M. Mueller (1938-2022)

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Anne Walters Robertson, Dean of the Division of the Humanities

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Anne Walters Robertson reflects on her time as dean.
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Image of a cover for a podcast by alumna Heather Huntington

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Khouloud Gargouri is a PhD student in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies.

The page and the stage

Khouloud Gargouri studies women on stage and fictional characters in the French-speaking world.