Tag: John Stilgoe

  • Nation & World

    A literary translator, far from home, feels a tie with an exiled Ovid

    Muhua Yang ’21 — living in Cambridge and separated from friends and family by the pandemic — chose the elegies of the five volumes of “Tristia” as the subject of their senior thesis in literary translation.

    5 minutes
    Muhua Yang '21
  • Nation & World

    Scholar’s eye for fashion

    Harvard senior Lily Calcagnini’s history and literature concentration places fashion front and center in cultural theory.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Secret history

    FreeThink@Harvard is a new interactive e-learning series sponsored by the Dean of Students Office at Harvard Extension School. Each discussion is led by Harvard faculty and includes a classroom chat with a crowd of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff that is also streamed online.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A river runs through it

    Harvard has developed a simmering romance with the Charles River and has a growing interest in it as a living laboratory, after centuries of the waterway serving as the University’s humble back door.

    11 minutes