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The sixth grade stands out for me as one of those important milestones in life. As an adult, I have numerous precise moments of recollection where a memory…
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 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…
One of my most memorable humanities moments came during a period of my life where I was not enrolled in any academic institution, but instead working full-time in…
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…
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…
In 2013, as a new college student, I started exploring genealogy. I learned to use the research skills that I developed from college history class to explore primary…
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…
For the first two decades of my life, food wasn’t something to which something I gave much serious consideration. I was guided—as I suspect most young adults are—by…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…