News Home 5 News Lit@MIT Summer 2026 Reading List: Literature Instructor PicksPoetry Foundation Essay | Prof. Joshua Bennett on “Extraordinary Cases” and Bruce M. WrightCamera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies | Prof. Jessica Ruffin “Fluid in All Aspects, Except for Race”: Black Faces and the Limits of AbstractionLit Majors Kelly Kim’26 and Sabine Chu’26: Thesis Defended!SHASS Alumni Gallery Spotlights | Cara Lai graduated from MIT in 2016 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Literature!MIT Global Humanities Launches New Podcast Series “Medicine and Healing Arts”Peter S. Donaldson Prize 2026 awarded to Literature Major: Sabine Chu!MIT News | MIT marks first Robert R. Taylor Day with Tuskegee UniversityNYT Book Review | Poetry Month Reading Recommendations, featuring Joshua Bennett’s newest book!April 9th | Recording of “Green-Taylor Lectures: A Black Life and Letters Speakers Series presents, Tracy K. Smith” in conversation with Prof Joshua Bennett4 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546 5
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies | Prof. Jessica Ruffin “Fluid in All Aspects, Except for Race”: Black Faces and the Limits of Abstraction
SHASS Alumni Gallery Spotlights | Cara Lai graduated from MIT in 2016 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Literature!
April 9th | Recording of “Green-Taylor Lectures: A Black Life and Letters Speakers Series presents, Tracy K. Smith” in conversation with Prof Joshua Bennett
