News
(March 25, 2021)
Remembering Sanford V. SternlichtSternlicht, professor emeritus of English, retired from Syracuse University in 2011.
(March 9, 2021)
Navigating an International Fellowship During a Global PandemicProfessor Scott Manning Stevens receives a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Hungary and conduct research at ethnographic museums throughout the country.
(March 3, 2021)
Concept of ‘medical liberty’ stirred emotions in 19th century Britain as well as in modern-day America. Upstate Medical podcast interview with PhD candidate Haejoo Kim.In early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began, Syracuse University doctoral student Haejoo Kim was studying alternative health practices among the 19th-century British. She noticed similarities to what was happening in present-day America. Kim, who is working on a doctorate in English, discusses what she learned, including how ideas about personal freedom clashed with public health efforts.
(Feb. 22, 2021)
The Solitary Artist Makes New FriendsWhen we think of writers, we often fall back on stereotypes—I picture an asthmatic writer with poor posture wearing a beret (why a beret? who knows!) working alone in an attic, who drinks heavily while chewing on his pencil while talking to a rat, his only friend.
(Feb. 16, 2021)
George Saunders Reflects on His Love for SyracuseAuthor of A Swim in a Pond in the Rain featured in Los Angeles Review of Books.
(Feb. 10, 2021)
Medical Humanities: An Introduction and Research DiscussionA panel discussion that brings together three scholars working in the growing interdisciplinary field of medical humanities.
(Jan. 29, 2021)
A&S’ Creative Writing Program Introduces New Undergraduate DegreeThe renowned program now offers a 30 credit major and 18 credit minor.
(Dec. 8, 2020)
Skepticism of Masks, Vaccinations Isn’t New: Ph.D. Candidate’s Research on 19th-Century Britain Provides Lessons for TodayHaejoo Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, is currently researching and writing her dissertation “Medical Liberty and Alternative Health Practices in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” She is exploring 19th-century British anti-vaccination periodicals and pamphlets to examine the rhetoric.