The Division of Humanities engages the ideas, texts, images, and language cultures that have shaped human experience across time and place. Fostering new approaches to knowledge, and honing students’ ...

The humanities are an often misunderstood group of majors. Because non-humanities degrees like nursing and business, for example, seem to have a more clear post-collegiate track, some may think that ...

The humanities have entered a new era, one focused on deconstructing power and privilege, rethinking race and identity, and reimagining justice and equality. The goal is no longer just to interpret ...

The headline splashed across the digital pages of The New Yorker on February 27 appeared to spell tragedy for humanities education with broad brush strokes: “The End of the English Major.” But as dean ...

We were told to hire for efficiency. Optimization. Scale. And yet the five most important skills I look for in a leader rarely come from a business background at all.

A TV program about Bergen-Belsen prompts Rob over at A Comfortable Place to ask whether critics like Matthew Arnold and F.R. Leavis were wrong to believe that studying the humanities makes us better ...

Dickinson has received a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to add to its groundbreaking work in literary disability studies, and phase II, “Building a Health Humanities Program,” ...