Watson Fellow for Healthcare
Samara Gordon Wexler ’23.5 has been named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow for the coming academic year.
Stories
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On Fire for Her Students
In a new Midd Moment podcast episode, Annie Weinberg ’10 shared how she left a successful finance career to pursue her passion for education and eventually founded the Alexander Twilight Academy, which provides rigorous academic and mentoring support for under-resourced students.
Beyond Country Music Stereotypes
In an article published in the Conversation, American studies and English professor Will Nash provides historical context to Beyoncé’s latest foray into country music.
Stealing from Dead Authors?
Esquire asked English professors Jay Parini and Rob Cohen to weigh in on the complicated ethics of posthumous publishing.
Prize Poetry
Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07 has been awarded the 2023 Spacks Prize for her forthcoming full-length poetry collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing.
Dance of the Nerds
Catch comedian and actor Alyssa Limperis ’12 starring as a kid version of Bill Gates in the short film The Launch.
Hoped and Changed
The debut novel of Vinson Cunningham, who matriculated with the class of 2006, has been called “a sophisticated bildungsroman” by Publishers Weekly and “a pleasure to follow” by Slate.
How to Teach Russian
Three members of the School of Russian faculty and staff had their book recognized by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) for the best contribution to the study of Slavic linguistics or second language acquisition in 2023.
Global to Local, Professional to Personal
Lauren Markham ’05 reckons with the global migration crisis, the limits of journalism in addressing it, and her own family’s emigration from Greece in her new book, A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.