literature

January 17, 2018

Stanford’s winter quarter guest artists

Stanford creates opportunities for meaningful engagement with the arts for students and the university community through an extensive guest artists program.

November 8, 2017

Stanford’s innovative program advancing the arts of the American West returns

Responding to enthusiasm for the ArtsWest Initiative, the Bill Lane Center for the American West presents another year of public programming.

August 4, 2017

Bringing medieval texts to a contemporary audience

A new website curated by Stanford faculty and students, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, translates medieval literature into English for the first time.

March 8, 2017

Cold War from the African American perspective

Stanford literary scholar Vaughn Rasberry illuminates a body of work by black writers who spotlighted cultural contradictions during the Cold War.

August 31, 2016

Medieval songs reflect humor in amorous courtships

Through a new translation of medieval songs, Stanford German studies Professor Kathryn Starkey reveals an unconventional take on romance.  

July 13, 2016

Crisis and connection is the theme of this year’s Three Books program

This year's Three Books program will feature two novels and a nonfiction book chosen by Stanford English Professor Elizabeth Tallent, who says the books share a fascination with human resourcefulness in the face of trauma.

May 5, 2016

The ‘close reading’ of multicultural literature expands racial literacy, Stanford scholar says

Paula Moya has found that an interdisciplinary approach to multicultural fiction can powerfully shape a reader’s perception of the world.

April 18, 2016

A new school approach to critiquing dime novel Westerns

Ellie Redding is tapping her computer science skills to uncover the literary brilliance of tales of the Old West.

February 18, 2016

Stanford Literary Lab uses digital humanities to study why we feel suspense

Mark Algee-Hewitt and a team of grad students combine tools of textual analysis with the emotional experience of reading to uncover what creates suspense in stories.

February 1, 2015

Medieval monsters live on today

Female monsters in medieval literature find new forms in modern movies, literature, comic books and music. Undergraduate student Rukma Sen is curious why those themes have such staying power.