The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

at Lecture by Arum Park (University of Arizona). Gilman 108 Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire reimagines Sophocles’ Antigone as a story of a British Muslim family whose religious and ethnic alterity becomes a source of conflict within the family and without. Her adaptation both cleaves to and departs from its Sophoclean model in ways that shed […]

at Lecture by Christopher Londa (Johns Hopkins University). Gilman 108 Reading with their ears,” the aristocratic elite of ancient Rome often enjoyed literature by listening to enslaved lectors perform texts out loud. But how did the lectors themselves think about these performances? On this question, the archive plays broken records. We hear elites complain about […]