Tag: Phillis Wheatley
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Nation & World
City of poets
Eight student poets pick a corner of the city with historical, personal meaning and read an original work.
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Nation & World
Standing on their shoulders
The Harvard Visitor Center debuts a tour that’s all about women.
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Nation & World
New faculty: Jesse McCarthy
New English and African and African American Studies Professor Jesse McCarthy took a roundabout path to academia. Now he’s teaching James Baldwin and Henry James and showing students there are many ways to be successful.
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Nation & World
Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.