humanities

It may technically be fall, but September kept us in sunny skies, celebratory weekends, and classroom deep-dives at URochester.

October brought fall in all its splendor to the University of Rochester. Take a brief look back at some favorite images from the past month.

A Rochester research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.

The Mellon Foundation has renewed its support for the Rochester Education Justice Initiative with an additional three-year, $1 million grant.

Four Rochester doctoral candidates will research in archives in a dozen countries as recipients of the Meliora Global Scholars grant.

Music theorist Matt BaileyShea explores the interrelationship between poetry, lyrics, and music in a new book.

On the anniversary of the Walt Whitman’s death, Ed Folsom ’76 (PhD) looked back on the legacy of the poet’s work, examples of which are available in the University’s libraries.

Everything I Don’t Know, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, takes top honors for poetry in translation.

The Rochester historian also wins a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write her third book.

Lauded for contributing to Rochester’s creative economy, the nonprofit literary translation press will publish five works of literature with the funding.