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My humanities moment comes in the form a song called “Inner City Blues,” by Marvin Gaye. The song was released in 1971 and it was a vocal illustration…
The following text is a transcript of the above recording. My name is Daun Fields, I’m a punk singer and a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida….
In the summer of 2017 I was visiting my family in the northeast of the UK as I prepared to begin my Ph.D. in the United States. I…
A cold morning in February and a sun still shy to rise, it’s time to harvest olives! As all the baggage is ready from the day before, there…
I was always a voracious reader with a preference for fiction. My family made regular trips to the library growing up, so I had a never-ending supply of…
Starlight Over the Rhone is a precursor to the much more famous “Starry, Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. It features a boundless black sky that merges into…
The final scenes of Her afford a surprising opportunity for thinking about the value of philosophy. Theodore Twombly, the central human character, has just been dumped by their…
As I considered a range of options for my Humanities Moment, I instinctively knew it would come down to music, which is the element that moves me most…
This summer, I am working with the Syracuse University Art Museum to create English-specific teaching resources. The goal is to make the museum’s collections more accessible to instructors…
It was not my first time in The City, but it was my first time visiting the Met. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s reputation stretched out wide before…
Despite its cultural prominence and my specialization in early modern English drama, I have not worked closely with Romeo and Juliet. I did read it once, but that…
Gwen Harwood’s “Bone Scan” will always have a place in my heart when it comes to my inspiration for teaching Literature and my abiding interest in the humanities….
In my ‘Problems and Issues in Feminist Theory’ graduate course in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, my professor assigned a new release in feminist and queer theory…
It was a balmy October night in 2017, when I lay pondering in a tiny rented room in a city that wasn’t “home” both literally as well as…
I have so many fond childhood memories of the Black church in which I grew up. My mother was a founding member of the church, and she was…
I’ve always been close with the humanities– my mother is an English teacher– and history and literature have always appealed to me. When I look back, though, I…
I was around 16 years old at the time of my humanities moment. I had been playing the viola for 7 years. As usually occurred, I became bored…
In the summer of 2018, I took a trip to England where I had the opportunity to truly explore the city of London for the first time. One…
While doing research in Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu province in China, I made a visit to a local neighborhood called Dafang Lane. There’s no famous tourist…
I hadn’t noticed until now how little I remember about the time I first read Yawar Fiesta. I know I had already received my bachelor’s degree and was…