What You’ll Learn:

Through advanced coursework in fields ranging from art and art history to literature, music, philosophy, religion and languages that include Classical Greek and Latin, Chinese, French, German, Russian and Spanish, you will learn to integrate and critically analyze different forms of knowledge.

You will also strengthen your written and oral communication skills. All will prepare you well for future graduate school study and employment.

Recent Theses

• Stendhal and the Heroines of His World
• The Evolution of Orpheus from the Classical World Period to the Renaissance
• The Pioneer Spirit: A Biographical Play
• Faith in Spite of Evil
• Poet Under Saturn: An Evening with Paul Verlaine
• Style and Form in Print Journalism
• Inside Out: Collaborative Authorship and Narrative Distribution in Public New Media Artworks and Contemporary Technocultural Developments
• Word, Myth, Seeing and Becoming: A Revision in the Education of Black Teenagers
  Justice and Happiness in the Republic
• “You Are About to Begin Reading”: Accessibility and Postmodernist Performance in Works by Italo Calvino, Christian Jankowski, and Francis Alÿs
• “Feminist Fairy Tales”: Female Agency and Subversive Messages in Fairy Tales of the Traditional European Canon Tale Type AT425A

Careers of Humanities Graduates

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Faculty

• Kim Anderson Associate Professor of Art
• David Berry Adjunct Instructor of Art History
• Dan Bethune Assistant in Humanities (Studio Technician)
• Eric Blix Writer in Residence
• Virginia P. Bray Adjunct Instructor of Piano and New College Chorus
• Katherine Brion Assistant Professor of Art History
• Ryan Buyssens Assistant Professor of Art (Sculpture)
• Kent Cao Asia Network/Henry Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Asian Art History
• Emily Carr Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
• Magdalena Carrasco Professor of Art History
• Maribeth Clark Associate Professor of Music
• Nick Clarkson Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
• Tabea Cornel Visiting Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities
• Mark Dancigers Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Music
• Nicolas Delon Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies
• Elyane Dezon-Jones Research Scholar, Humanities
• Andrea Dimino Associate Professor of English
• Tetyana Dzyadevych Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Language and Literature
• Aron Edidin Professor of Philosophy
• April Flakne Associate Professor of Philosophy
• Nathan Frantz Adjunct Instructor of Music
• Alexandria Griffin Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
• Lauren Hansen Visiting Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature
• Daniel Hernandez Office Manager
• Robert Knox, Jr. Emeritus Professor of English
• Sonia Labrador-Rodriguez Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature
• Douglas Langston Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion
• Fang-yu Li Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Culture
• Manuel Lopez Zafra Assistant Professor of Religion
• Andrei Malaev-Babel Adjunct Associate Professor of Theater
• Mariam Manzur-Leiva Instructor of Spanish Language and Literature, Interim Quality Matters Liaison
• Susan Marks Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies; Klingenstein Professorship
• Jose Martinez Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
• John McDiarmid Emeritus Professor of British and American Literature
• Sarah Melcher Adjunct Instructor of Hebrew
• Gordon Michalson, Jr. Emeritus Professor of Humanities
• Stephen Miles Emeritus Professor of Music
• Arthur Miller Emeritus Professor of British and American Literature
• Nova Myhill Professor of English and Theater and Performance Studies
• Nassima Neggaz Assistant Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies
• John Newman Emeritus Professor of Religion
• Christopher Noble Assistant Professor of Philosophy
• Tim O'Donnell Production Manager & Technical Director of the Black Box Theater
• Thomas Olshewsky Research Scholar, Humanities
• Jose Alberto Portugal Professor of Spanish Language & Literature; PepsiCo Professorship
• Amy Reid Professor of French and Gender Studies; Director of Gender Studies Program
• David Rohrbacher Professor of Classics
• Angela Santoro Office Assistant
• David Schatz Emeritus Professor of Russian Language
• Carl Shaw Professor of Classics
• Wendy-Lou Sutherland Associate Professor of German, Black European and Diaspora Studies
• Michael Sweet Research Scholar, Humanities
• Friedrich Thiel Research Scholar, Humanities
• Jocelyn Van Tuyl Professor of French Language & Literature
• Hugo Viera-Vargas Assistant Professor of Caribbean/Latin American Studies and Music
• Diego Villada Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies
• Miriam Wallace Professor of English and Gender Studies, Division Chair
• Leymis Wilmott Dance Instructor and Artist in Residence
• Alina Wyman Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature
• Jessica Young Assistant Professor of English
• Paul Zajac Visiting Assistant Professor of English
• Robert Zamsky Professor of English
• Jing Zhang Director, International Studies Program; Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture
• Leonard Zwilling Research Scholar, Humanities