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Recent Piece by AGHI Director Jeanne-Marie Jackson: “Viewpoint Diversity Misses the Point”

We’re proud to share that our director at the Alexander Grass Institute has published a thought-provoking piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read “[Viewpoint Diversity Misses the Point]” to […]

AGHI & Deep Vellum Partnership

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Deep Vellum are proud to present AGHI in Translation, a partnership to bring the world's greatest writers into dialogue across academic and public spheres. By producing and promoting major works of literary translation, the AGHI and Deep Vellum aim to deepen literary engagement in the city of Baltimore, across the nation, and throughout the world.

We are thrilled to share that the national press release for our new partnership with Deep Vellum, “AGHI in Translation,” has just been released. Deep Vellum is a literary arts […]

Celebrating Academic Achievement: AGHI Affiliates Receive Prestigious 2025 Awards

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AGHI congratulates Board Member Dora Malech and Affiliated Faculty Tom Lippincott, winners of a 2025 Discovery Award, and Former Faculty Fellow Bécquer Seguin, winner of a 2025 Catalyst Award!

Registration open for Blast Courses in the Humanities!

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Register now for the sixth summer of Blast Courses in the Humanities! These free, fully online courses are a fun, low-commitment way to explore ideas about history, the arts, and […]

Free intensive reading-knowledge courses in European languages Summer 2025

Each summer, the School of Arts and Sciences offers intensive courses in European languages to incoming and continuing graduate students. These courses are tailored to developing the reading knowledge that […]

New Edition of The Oxford Chaucer Unveiled at Humanities in the Village

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The poet Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the father of English poetry, and was the first poet to write in English whose name we know. He lived from around 1343-1400, […]

Reading & Conversation with Jennifer Stager, Leila Easa and Dora Malech

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At times of crisis, what can feminists do in the public sphere? What, in particular, has poetry and visual art offered to those wanting to put feminist values into action? […]

Undergraduate Course on Middle East

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The new one-credit class, “Conversations on the Crisis in the Middle East,” introduces students to vexing issues. The class is taught by political science Professor Steven David, and requires students […]

Call for Proposals! Philosophy and Literature Conference JHU/Stanford 2025

The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 6th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to be held […]

AGHI Graduate Research Fellow, Yanneck Wiegers presents at CAMWS-SS

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Department of Classics Yanneck Wiegers presented his research at the annual meeting of CAMWS Southern Section, which was hosted this year at the University of Texas at San Antonio. On […]