Arts & Humanities

‘A Road Three Hundred Years Long’: A Cinema Stirring Amid an Exodus

Prof. Jacqueline Stewart calls 1941 film 'The Blood of Jesus’ a 'document of black folk culture,' drawing on Hollywood conventions


Anthony C. Yu, Translator of the Saga of a Chinese Pilgrimage, Dies at 76

Prof. Emeritus Anthony Yu remembered for epic translation of ‘The Journey to the West,’ termed ‘one of the great ventures of our time’


Anthony Yu, U. of C. prof who did landmark translation of beloved Chinese story, dead at 76

Prof. Edward Shaughnessey remembers the late Prof. Emeritus Anthony Yu and the ‘giant achievement’ of his epic translation of ‘The Journey to the West’


Cinemetrics quantifies creativity in film

Online community advances new approach to study of movies


Life Is "Triggering." The Best Literature Should Be, Too.

In op-ed, Prof. Jerry Coyne argues that trigger warnings on Core curriculum readings are counterproductive for a diverse learning environment


New Republic

A rarity, resurrected: an all-black film from the silent era

Prof. Jacqueline Stewart comments on Logan Center screening of Bert Williams silent film, says had a ‘desire to take blackface to a higher level, strange as that sounds’


'Ghost World' artist's papers acquired by University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library receives 16 boxes of cartoonist and Hyde Park native Daniel Clowes’ work


The Object as Subject

Article cites Prof. Bill Brown, who discusses in-depth analyses of objects, or ‘Thing Theory,’ a rising trend in academia


T.H. Tsien, Scholar of Chinese Written Word, Dies at 105

Prof. Emeritus T.H. Tsien remembered as a renowned scholar of Chinese bibliography, paleography