News Home 5 News The New York Times | “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026” list, featuring Prof. Joshua Bennett’s forthcoming book!Public Seminar Interview | First as Comedy, Then as Farce: A conversation with Benjamin Mangrum on the assembly of The Comedy of ComputationMIT Faculty Newsletter | Ruth Perry lecturing in ChinaDec 9-11 | Professor Wiebke Denecke speaks on opening panel of AI For Global South (AI4GS): Creating a Roadmap for the Next Decade at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu DhabiMIT Tech | Lit Faculty featured in “SHASS professors share wide-ranging views on AI in the classroom”MIT News | Ruth Perry Q&A: How folk ballads explain the worldRoutledge Book Review | Ruth Perry’s The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of FalklandCongratulations! Lit@MIT’s Senior Lecturer Emerita, Wyn Kelley, elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society!Oct 25 | French Voices at the Boston Book Festival (featuring Bruno Perreau) in Partnership with the French Library/Villa AlbertineThe Nikkei and Asahi Shinbun feature Wiebke Denecke’s call for Social Renewal through the Humanities and Arts and Reflections on AI at the First Kyoto Conference4 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243 5
The New York Times | “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026” list, featuring Prof. Joshua Bennett’s forthcoming book!
Public Seminar Interview | First as Comedy, Then as Farce: A conversation with Benjamin Mangrum on the assembly of The Comedy of Computation
Dec 9-11 | Professor Wiebke Denecke speaks on opening panel of AI For Global South (AI4GS): Creating a Roadmap for the Next Decade at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi
MIT Tech | Lit Faculty featured in “SHASS professors share wide-ranging views on AI in the classroom”
Congratulations! Lit@MIT’s Senior Lecturer Emerita, Wyn Kelley, elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society!
Oct 25 | French Voices at the Boston Book Festival (featuring Bruno Perreau) in Partnership with the French Library/Villa Albertine
The Nikkei and Asahi Shinbun feature Wiebke Denecke’s call for Social Renewal through the Humanities and Arts and Reflections on AI at the First Kyoto Conference