O nce again, there are signs of deep trouble for the humanities in higher education — in the Western world, if not the world as a whole. News of closures trickles in relentlessly. At New Zealand’s ...

Perhaps you’ve heard of the World Cinema Project, which is making foreign language films, largely unknown outside their native countries, available on Blu-ray discs and DVDs. Established in 2007 by ...

In part three of a series of articles that looks at the humanities at Bowdoin today, we examine the evidence supporting the idea that studying the humanities helps Bowdoin graduates find jobs—and ...

Maxwell Eller is majoring in classics and Arturo Padilla in religious studies for health professionals, both at the University of Arizona. “It helped my attention span in a world of YouTube and ...

Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? Because it’s widely read as a eulogy for a discipline that has lost its audience and lost its way.