Benjamin Mangrum receives the 2023 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
Assistant professor of literature's research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of environmental rights.
Department
Literature
2023 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Professors Gabrieli, Gubar, Martin, and Sass are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
Celebrating the life of undergraduate Mohamed Magdi Taha
Rising junior in Course 6-9 was “brave and compassionate” and strove to lift up others.
Novelist Elizabeth Acevedo's work reflects the rich stories, traditions, and cultures of the Caribbean diaspora
MIT Reads event moderated by Nailah Smith ’22 delights MIT audience.
Bringing “cultural diplomacy” to the classics
Wiebke Denecke, an expert in East Asian literature, wants to add to the international, interdisciplinary study of the humanities at MIT.
Portal to another world
An expert in medieval literature, Arthur Bahr is working toward a book on the Pearl-Manuscript — a rare 14th-century document that includes “Pearl” and three other works.
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes six new faculty
New professors join Comparative Media Studies/Writing, Economics, Literature, Philosophy, and Political Science.
Inhabiting 21st-century science fiction
Students in 21L.434 discover that the world-making of science fiction is not only a way to envision possible futures, but a powerful way to think about the world we currently inhabit.
The meanings of masks
New ways to think about and practice protective masking, from faculty in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
Louis Kampf, professor emeritus of literature and women's and gender studies, dies at 91
As a teacher, Kampf was consistently both a generous force of inclusion and a prod of conscience.
Eleven from MIT awarded 2020 Fulbright Fellowships
Graduating seniors and recent alumni will spend upcoming year abroad on Fulbright grants.
Taking a new look at ancient books
Classicist Stephanie Frampton traverses disciplines to study how the content and form of writing interacted in the ancient world.
2020 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Anikeeva, Fuller, Tisdale, and White receive MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching.
Bose grants for 2019 reward bold ideas across disciplines
Three innovative research projects in literature, plant epigenetics, and chemical engineering will be supported by Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
Meet the 2019 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
SHASS faculty members Nikhil Agarwal, Sana Aiyar, Stephanie Frampton, Daniel Hidalgo, and Miriam Schoenfield were recently granted tenure.