Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever ...

Picture the following scenario, said Visiting Assistant Professor of German Andrew Hamilton at a recent faculty seminar: It’s the early 1800s and two European cavalry officers—let’s say Russians—are ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Literature professor Simon John James and physicist Richard Bower were both involved in the curating the ...

Princeton University professor Rachel Bowlby is intent on illuminating stories about parental identity — a focus she says has been neglected in the study of literature. In her book "A Child of One's ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Literature professor Simon John James and physicist ...

Literary translators have long used computers for basic assistance, for example in the form of online dictionaries and corpora, but they have also long been resistant to the idea that machine ...

T he most basic questions for any educator are: Why should students listen to me? What claim do I have on the public? When these questions can no longer be answered clearly and convincingly, a ...