News

Bruce Robbins to Discuss New Book at Book Culture
Sharon Marcus to Moderate Panel on New Deborah Cohen Book
Stathis Gourgouris Awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Sarah Cole Reflects on the State of the Humanities With Columbia News

Dean Sarah Cole is enthusiastic about the state of things in the humanities division she oversees within the faculty of arts and sciences.

Celebrating New Work by Julie Stone Peters

The event will take place on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 6:15pm EDT

Gayatri Spivak Inducted Into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Gayatri Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

Brent Hayes Edwards Selected By MoMA For Inaugural Cohort of Ford Foundation Scholars In Residence Program

Brent Hayes Edwards will join the museum for a one-year residency in September 2022.

Joseph Slaughter Appointed Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights

ISHR is committed to providing excellent human rights education to Columbia students and offering its expertise in capacity building to future leaders.

Julie Stone Peters Interviewed by Columbia News About the Release of New Book

In Law as Performance, Professor Julie Stone Peters traces how theatrics and spectatorship contributed to a tradition of legal thought and practice. 

Farah Jasmine Griffin Named Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award in Literature
Spielberg tried to save ‘West Side Story.’ But its history makes it unsalvageable
Roosevelt Montás Makes His Case for the Importance of the Humanities
Ph.D. Student Akua Banful Featured in the LA Review of Books
Arden Hegele Releases New Book, Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading
2021 Lionel Trilling Lecture "The Black Studies Project"

In Case You Missed It: watch the 2021 Lionel Trilling Lecture "The Black Studies Project: 50 Years and Counting" by Dr. Hortense Spillers, with respondents Rich Blint and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from October 6th, 2021.