Classics

Cultural partners infuse youth with arts

UChicago arts leaders collaborate with schools on K-12 arts education program


Drew Messinger-Michaels

Philip Glass’ musical journey

Renowned composer, AB'56, recounts formative UChicago teenage years in memoir


Phillip Glass

Finding new life in world’s classics

How UChicago translations revived Chinese and Indian texts by looking beyond standard editions


Wen Huang and Dagny Dukach

Finding new life in world’s classics

How UChicago translations revived Chinese and Indian texts by looking beyond standard editions


UChicago.edu

Press thrives on scholarly collaboration

Nation’s largest university press brings Chicago ideas to the world.


Adaptation

Classics professor Mark Usher stitches together an unorthodox career.


Carrie Golus

Channeling Carrie

Kimberly Peirce, AB’90, revives the pop culture classic.


AmyMonaghan

Exploring ‘Love and Friendship in Hamlet’

Prof. David Bevington explains Shakespeare’s move from romantic comedy to doomed love


After war, classroom offers a new outlook

Three veterans trade military service for graduate studies in the humanities.


Susie Allen

Landmark initiative reimagines humanistic inquiry

Neubauer Collegium, supported by $26.5 million gift, to promote collaboration on big questions.


Susie Allen