2023

This post was written by Jamie Horrocks, a Humanities Center faculty fellow.   I am scheduled to teach a class on the Victorian novel next semester. Because of this, I have spent the past few weeks stewing over the question that surely all English professors in my position stew over: what is the maximum number …

This post was written by Cherice Montgomery, a Humanities Center faculty fellow.   Seasons of Creativity My research focuses on the nature and design of compelling learning experiences. I am especially interested in creating immersive learning environments that put language learners into flow, or a state of such deep attention and personal enjoyment that both …

This post was written by Ivy Griffiths, a Humanities Center student fellow.   In our ever-future-oriented society, choosing to study the humanities over a STEM alternative is often seen as a less productive option. If you wanted to do something of “real importance”, you would choose something that could advance the economy or build new …

This post was written by Luka Romney, a Humanities Center student fellow.   Today, invited by the spring meteorological turbulence, I took my new bicycle out for a spin on the Provo River Parkway. Instead of going up the canyon as I usually do, I followed the river as it raged under major arterial roads …

This post was written by Sara Phenix, a Humanities Center faculty fellow.   A recent conversation with a close friend forced me to reconsider the value of what I do as a literature professor. This woman has a house full of young children—five total, the oldest only ten when the youngest was born—and, while she …

This post was written by Zach Stevenson, a Humanities Center student fellow “Language is not a small victory. It was out of this last, irreducible possession that the Jews made a counter-world of words, the Irish vanquished England, and Russian poetry bloomed thick over Stalin’s burial grounds. And in a single book one woman managed …

This post was written by Drew Swasey, a Humanities Center student fellow.   On one of my final days in Sweden, I found myself standing on a small, rickety pier facing the Baltic Sea. To my left was my companion; to my right, a lifebuoy on a post. Staring out at the black water felt …

This post was written by Gabbie Schwartz, a Humanities Center student fellow and the BYU Humanities Center Intern.    “They are secretly ashamed of their ignorance of literature, in the same way as they would be ashamed of their ignorance of etiquette at a high entertainment, or of their inability to ride a horse if …