Department News Archive


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.


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 […]


The Enduring Value of an English Degree

The Enduring Value of an English Degree
In the face of a growing focus on STEM fields, Professor Mark Christian Thompson talks candidly about the enduring value of an English degree. Including why study in the humanities is more valuable than ever. (Spoiler alert: English majors do, in fact, find jobs.)