…on the status of the class’s collectively crocheted purposeless objects crafted during the fall of 2020 during my course “Arts & Crafts as Avant-Garde Labor,” at Swarthmore College. A course…

…du jour that would send academic twitter into a shame spiral. This continuity stems from the pressure placed on the humanities to unite a number of the apparent contradictions that…

Jeter ’25. Friday, April 28th, 2023, 2:30pm. Sibelan Forrester, Translation of Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s novel, The Length of Days , Harvard University Press. Sibelan Forrester presented her new translation of a…

…Poetry that connects past and future, history and imagination, helps ground us in the unsteady present. Our survival will require us to develop new partnerships, new relationships, with our other-…

…in addition to those of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, Ethnic Studies, and critical tendencies in a number of other disciplines. In addition to their work establishing this framework, Boggs, Meyerhoff,…

politics of wordplay, will be published by HarperOne in March 2024. Anna’s writing has appeared in Critical Inquiry, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Representations, The Yale…

organized the speaker series, South Africa to Gaza: World History and the Politics of Responsibility The South Africa to Gaza: World History and the Politics of Accountability Series draws its…

…a whole new system of ideas.” A whole new system of ideas—in terms of both decolonization and Black cultural revolution—suggests that storytelling reconfigures our ideas of data and intimates the…

…the liberal arts. Three years into our work as directors of the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, we’re newly conscious of the provenance of these claims about liberal arts that…