Tag: Alexandra Perloff-Giles

  • Nation & World

    Digitizing the classics

    Professor works to transform ancient Greek texts and their Arabic translations into an open-access, computerized format that could provide important insights into the development of science.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Italy and Africa, entwined

    Students in Giuliana Minghelli’s new course on cultural migrations between Italy and Africa get an up-close view of the colonial era, witnessing a performance by one of the assigned authors and developing their own creative responses.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Shakespeare, the inventive conservative

    A new book by scholar Stephen Greenblatt probes topics that the playwright pushed to their limits: beauty and the cult of perfection, murderous hatred, the exercise of power, and artistic autonomy.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Brazil’s public intellectual

    Nicolau Sevcenko, now a professor of Romance languages and literatures at Harvard, reflects on the long journey that brought him here.

    4 minutes