Arts & Humanities

March 6, 2025

The Library Is the Beating Heart of Reed College

President Bilger and Reed library leaders discuss the impact of the campus hub.

By Sheena McFarland

March 10, 2025

Nina Simone’s Gum

Religion 363 students seek to answer: How does a thing like, say, a piece of gum, transform into a religious artifact?

March 12, 2025

Finding the Words

In 2024, Aidan Mokalla ’25 traveled to Tajikistan to study Persian as part of the Critical Language Scholarship program.

March 11, 2025

Living Laboratory

Fall snapshots from Reed’s Environmental Humanities initiative where community, place, and scholarship converge to solve pressing issues of our time.

March 7, 2025

Water's Hand

Inside Art 350, where studying art history reveals insights about our changing climate.

March 6, 2025

A Repository of Human History

The D.C. alumni chapter recently visited head curator Leslie Overstreet ’71 at the Smithsonian’s Cullman rare book library to learn what clues lie within the materiality of books.

December 4, 2024

Find the Synchronicity

In Chinese 311, Yijing hexagraphs are analyzed to explore Chinese text and tradition.

September 2, 2024

Season to Taste with Queer Forms

Elizabeth Blake ’04 explores desire, gratification, and embodiment in her first book.

March 20, 2025

Reed Faculty Reflect on Recent Publications

Six professors discuss their recent works spanning the storied life of Buddha, the Soviet Jewish bookshelf, essays on the Qur'an and Islam, and more.

October 11, 2024

Remembering to Forget

Ancient Mediterranean Studies 382 explores the often-overlooked diversity of the Roman Empire, and the ruthlessness of Roman emperors.

July 22, 2024

Behind the Curtain

Catching up with a former student and star of HBO's The Gilded Age, Morgan Spector ’02

July 31, 2024

Environmental Humanities Initiative Launches Second Summer Incubator for Curricula Development

The incubator, funded by the Mellon Foundation, supports faculty developing EH courses.

March 13, 2024

Looking Versus Seeing

A glimpse into Art 551: Theories of Visuality, taught by Prof. Dana Katz.

March 8, 2024

Big Topics for Young Readers

The stories of British colonialism come to life in Prof. Natarajan’s Hear Our Voices.