Podcast When Animals Dream June 20, 2022 Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep?聽When Animals Dream聽brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. Read More
Essay The complex origins, development, and meanings of human rights June 14, 2022 In聽2015, a young girl and her father crossed into the United States from the border with Mexico. Astrid and Arturo, K鈥檌che鈥� Indians from Guatemala, were fleeing the systematic discrimination and violence their people have suffered for decades. Read More
Essay Seamus Heaney, pseudonym 鈥業ncertus鈥� June 13, 2022 When he first began to publish poems, Seamus Heaney鈥檚 chosen pseudonym was 鈥業ncertus鈥�, meaning 鈥榥ot sure of himself鈥�. Characteristically, this was a subtle irony. Read More
Essay Why I hoard words June 09, 2022 I took an Old English module on a whim during my first year at university. I came across it at a foreign language informational session, and having never seen or heard Old English before, I was astonished to learn that my own mother tongue could be considered 鈥榝oreign鈥� to me. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Marybeth Gasman on poor faculty diversity June 08, 2022 The diversification of the academy will not be achieved under within the current academic environment. In this video, PUP Speaks speaker Marybeth Gasman explains what must change for equity to be achieved. Read More
Interview Book Club Pick: The Golden Rhinoceros June 08, 2022 From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. Read More
Essay Bottom line up front June 02, 2022 Anyone receiving a bachelor鈥檚 or master鈥檚 degree has learned how to produce a lengthy paper on a complex topic. But that鈥檚 not the only writing skill needed in the workplace. Read More
Essay Life-changing doubt, the Internet, and a crisis of authority June 01, 2022 Yisroel was an earnestly pious boy growing up Hasidic in Brooklyn, New York. With his side curls grazing his shoulders, thick plastic glasses, and big black velvet yarmulke, he looked like all the other boys in his yeshiva, where he studied the Torah and its commentaries from early in the morning until late at night. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Translating Myself and Others June 01, 2022 Translating Myself and Others聽is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. Read More
Essay Exploring London鈥檚 past through mudlarking May 24, 2022 For millennia, objects have found their way into the River Thames as it flows through London. Household rubbish has been dumped into it, personal possessions accidentally lost, cargoes spilt, offerings made to gods, and coins tossed in for luck. Read More
Podcast The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English May 24, 2022 Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer鈥檚 Middle English, Old English鈥攖he language of聽Beowulf鈥攄efies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Read More
Interview Hal Weitzman on What鈥檚 the Matter with Delaware? May 24, 2022 The legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why do virtually all of the biggest corporations in the United States register there? Why do so many small companies choose to set up in Delaware rather than their home states? Read More
Essay Aristotle on how to write a story May 18, 2022 Back when I was a first-year college student and thought I knew everything already, I remember my English composition professor telling us that Aristotle鈥檚 Poetics contained everything we needed to know about becoming great writers. Read More
Essay Why some mistaken views catch on May 18, 2022 As I was walking back from university one day, a respectable-looking middle-aged man accosted me. He spun a good story: he was a doctor working in the local hospital, he had to rush to some urgent doctorly thing, but he鈥檇 lost his wallet, and he had no money for a cab ride. Read More
Essay Jhumpa Lahiri: Where I find myself May 16, 2022 Having written my novel Dove mi trovo in Italian, I was the first to doubt that it could transform into English. Naturally it could be translated; any text can, with greater or lesser degrees of success. Read More
