The University of Wyoming’s English PhD in the Public Humanities is a dynamic degree designed to prepare students for publicly engaged careers beyond colleges and universities. We believe that the ...

The humanities are in crisis. That’s the crux of Nathan Heller’s recent article for The New Yorker, “The End of the English Major,” which is drawing national attention and debate. Heller, who himself ...

Unlike the decline in the number of humanities and English majors over the past decade at institutions such as Arizona State University and Harvard University reported by The New Yorker, USC’s ...

At a time when many institutes of higher education are eliminating humanities programs, Lycoming College is showing its commitment to the humanities with the launch of the Humanities Research Center ...

Neal A. Lester has always looked beyond his classroom walls, beyond disciplinary definitions, to exemplify the importance of the humanities. Before arriving at Arizona State University, Lester taught ...

Within a few decades, contemporary literature departments (e.g., English) will be largely extinct—they’ll be as large and vibrant as Classics departments are today, which is to say, not very active at ...

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 ...

Harvard English professor and Pulitzer-winning writer Louis Menand will receive the National Humanities Medal for his writings on cultural history from President Barack Obama at the White House ...

The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first. From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University ...

The White House dismissed the majority of members on the National Council on the Humanities on Wednesday. Just four of the 26 members remain on the council’s website: Russell Berman, Keegan Callanan, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Olivia Howe was hesitant at first to add French to her major in finance at the University of Arizona, fearing that it wouldn’t be very useful in the labor market. Then her language ...