Humanities

Juneteenth event addresses Rice's history and topics of African American life

Task force proposes competition to redesign Academic Quad, determine fate of statue.

Rice celebrates Juneteenth and emancipations to come

Rice’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will bring together professors across the university — from Computational and Applied Mathematics to Modern and Classical Literature and Cultures — for three panels exploring ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday.

A heartbeat away

How a medical humanities workshop and coding crash course created a pulse-inspired art exhibition at Rice’s Solar Studios.

World’s largest database on history of slave trade now housed at Rice

SlaveVoyages.org is the result of years of research, reengineered for the future by Rice and a newly formed consortium.

There’s never been a better time to pursue an English degree at Rice

Creative writing program offers unique opportunity to learn from America’s foremost writers and scholars.

Taylor Crain on creating the Rice she wanted to see

The storyteller and world-builder leaves a lasting legacy as she looks ahead.

Kassim wins prestigious dissertation completion fellowship

A series of setbacks didn’t deter this Rice grad student, who is soon to publish his second book.

Translational Humanities for Public Health project captures worldwide scholarly responses to pandemic

Ostherr’s online database offers a ‘different framing of what an intervention can look like.’

Award-winning writer Kiese Laymon joining English faculty

The critically acclaimed memoirist and essayist will be the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English, starting Jan. 1, 2022.

Bruce Hainley joins Rice as new VADA chair

Noted writer Bruce Hainley is joining the faculty at Rice as the new chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA).

'Become human again' to address social, environmental challenges

"Hyposubjects: on becoming human," a new book from Rice professors Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer, takes an experimental approach to thinking about the social and environmental challenges of our times.

The art of politics: Sperandio convenes April 30 panel on protest art in comics

As the New York Times put it in a recent profile, artist Sue Coe “proudly labels her own work propaganda.” Coe’s “searing social-political art,” notes Times writer Hilarie Sheets, “can feel like a punch in the face or a call to action — or both.”

Anthony Pinn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rice Professor Anthony Pinn has been elected to the nation’s foremost society of scholars, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Established by America’s founding fathers in 1780, the academy’s members have included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Undergraduate research showcase returns to Rice in hybrid format April 21

Linda Liu and Anika Sonig wanted to make sure all bases were covered when they planned this year’s Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS), the annual showcase for student research projects that’s operating under pandemic conditions for the second year in a row.

Clements and Faubion convene conference of international Foucault ‘superstars’

Scholars’ twice-weekly talks this summer will consider newly published work by the French philosopher Micheal Foucault