Humanities

New English courses fuse creativity with literary criticism

The Critical–Creative Studies Initiative offers students the chance to understand literature from multiple angles.

Two seated students look intensely at a speaker as they perform Richard III

Portrait of Jonathan Gienapp

Jonathan Gienapp wins Order of the Coif book award

Portrait of Al Camarillo

Four things to know about ethnic studies in California high schools

Portrait of Gerald Gillespie

Gerald Gillespie, devoted professor of German and comparative literature, dies at 92

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité engraved between two columns

Historian chronicles one of the French Revolution’s most notorious figures

Collage of Keith Baker and cover of "Jean-Paul Marat"

Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror by Keith Baker, History

Collage of portraits, from left to right: Jennifer Burns, Dan Edelstein, Stephen H. Haber

Three H&S faculty become American Academy of Sciences and Letters members

Exploring the Louvre heist with French culture expert Cécile Alduy

Matthew Sommer wearing a light-blue collared shirt standing under one of arcades on Stanford's Main Quad

Matthew Sommer awarded American Historical Association prize