The literature of madness and how it shaped modern psychiatry

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Catherine Zandonella

IN 1890, THE RUSSIAN PHYSICIAN and writer Anton Chekhov traveled across Siberia to document the lives of prisoners sentenced to a remote penal colony on Sakhalin Island. The visit inspired not only a nonfiction exposé Continue Reading →

Cuban literature and culture are focus of Planet/Cuba

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Catherine Zandonella

RACHEL PRICE, an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese who also is affiliated with the Program in Media and Modernity, joined Princeton in 2009. Her scholarship focuses on culture, media, poetics, empire and ecocriticism in Continue Reading →

JHUMPA LAHIRI awarded National Humanities Medal

Posted on November 21, 2015 by

Jhumpa Lahiri, whose novels and short stories explore the immigrant experience, family, love, language and cultural identity, was named a recipient of the 2014 National Humanities Medal. The medal was conferred by President Barack Obama Continue Reading →

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