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Associate Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson featured in The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

Associate Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson featured in The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry has published a discussion forum on Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s latest book, The African Novel of Ideas. It includes responses to the book by Cajetan […]

Traveling, Writing, and Finding a Career in Digital Media

Traveling, Writing, and Finding a Career in Digital Media

Alumnus Rachel Schnalzer ’15 has successfully built a career in travel and writing. She’s the audience engagement editor at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes the Escapes travel newsletter, lives in Germany and works remotely. Read more about her work in the Spring 2022 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine.

By the Book: Prof. Mark Christian Thompson in Conversation with Tobi Haslett

By the Book: Prof. Mark Christian Thompson in Conversation with Tobi Haslett

Mark Christian Thompson, author of ‘Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory’ in conversation with Tobi Haslett.

Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson Joins YouTube Series on African Philosophy

Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson Joins YouTube Series on African Philosophy

Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson, alongside Omedi Ochieng, recently took part in a new YouTube series “African Philosophy Conversations,” hosted by Bruce Janz. 

Forthcoming Article in “Renaissance Quarterly” by Professor Sharon Achinstein

Forthcoming Article in “Renaissance Quarterly” by Professor Sharon Achinstein

Sharon Achinstein’s article, “A Common Humanity: From Poetry to Philosophy in Hugo Grotius,” which considers how Grotius’s theorizing of international law, specifically on captives and the enslaved, was shaped by […]

Professor Mark Christian Thompson Discusses Dean Celenza’s New Book, and the State of Humanities Teaching

Professor Mark Christian Thompson Discusses Dean Celenza’s New Book, and the State of Humanities Teaching

In this age of disinformation and political polarization, Christopher Celenza, Dean of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences joined SNF Agora for a discussion of our collective search for […]

“Phenomenal Blackness” Discussed in New Books Podcast with Brittney Edmonds of UW – Madison

“Phenomenal Blackness” Discussed in New Books Podcast with Brittney Edmonds of UW – Madison

Prof. Mark Christian Thompson’s book, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century African American writers and thinkers, showing how their investments […]

Professors Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Mark Christian Thompson’s Books are Discussed in New Podcast

Professors Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Mark Christian Thompson’s Books are Discussed in New Podcast

Professors Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Mark Christian Thompson have each had their latest books featured on the new podcast “Conversations in Atlantic Theory,” in conversation with John Drabinski at the University […]

Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory

Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory

Professor Mark Christian Thompson’s new book is now available. This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field’s debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition […]

These Novels Are Asking You to Read More, and Read Better

These Novels Are Asking You to Read More, and Read Better

Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson reviews 2021’s big year for African fiction in the New York Times. The full article can be found, here.