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Hello! Things have been busy here in Lit, but Poetechnics is back for a brief run before the end of the year. In this episode, Michael speaks with Literature Professor and Chair of Faculty Mary Fuller about her new book, Lines Drawn Across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s “Principal Navigations”.

Poetechnics is a podcast from the Literature Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about the intersections of poetic and technical knowledge. The theme song is Anachronist by Kevin MacLeod, used under a Creative Commons License. Episodes are produced by Dr. Michael Lutz. This project is generously supported in part by MIT’s d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education.

You are warmly invited to relax and watch a light-hearted movie with us! We will be screening Hunt for the Wilderpeople a 2016 New Zealand adventure comedy-drama film on Monday December 4th from 7 - 9 pm in 26-100. After the screening there will be a debrief and...

Join us on Monday 11/20 at 6pm in Lobdell for the 2nd Annual Thanksgiving Myth-Busting Dinner with speakers, including Professor Caitlyn Doyle.  Learn about how events of the 1600s were spun into the American Thanksgiving Holiday, and about the stories told in the...

Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed, online publication bringing together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies since 1975. Volume 47 • Issue 1, October 2023 features an article by Professor Eugenie Brinkema. Not Done Being Over: Death and the Trouble...

Let's celebrate Professor Tristan Brown (History) and Professor Serguei Saavedra (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and their project as a members of our Comparative Global Humanities Initiative and the "Environment, Diversity, and the Sacred" Pillar...

Literature Double Major, Anjali Chadha was featured in the If/Then Initiative #IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit 2023! “As a girl, as a minority, and as someone from a state [Kentucky] that isn’t necessarily highly focused on education, let alone STEM education, I always...

The American Literature And Culture series at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard showcases new work by scholars engaging with well-established and emergent methodologies in the history of American culture, politics, and aesthetics. The seminar focuses on...

As America's most prestigious honor society, Phi Beta Kappa has celebrated excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and championed free thought since 1776. What First-Years Read in 2023 Many colleges choose a common reading list to build community around the free...

Joshua Bennett is a professor of literature and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at MIT. Additionally, he is an accomplished spoken word artist and the author of several books. In this episode, he speaks with MIT President Sally Kornbluth about the power of...

BLACK WOMEN UNDER FIRE: ABOLITION, BLACK LIBERATION, AND FEMINISM IN BRAZIL Speaker: Juliana Borges Postponed to Spring 2024 This talk will analyze the way in which Black women have been criminally punished in Brazil, from colonialism to coloniality, and the varied...