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Along with the Center for the Arts in Society, we were pleased to host the 2026 (In)Hospitable Space conference. #SSoCIA
Check out our recap and access the session recordings: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...
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"Onto trails completely undiscovered" — our department gathered on Saturday, May 9, for the 2026 Commencement of both undergraduate and graduate students. Read more about this year's graduating class: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...
From publishing houses to financial firms, the 2026 Humanities Career Trek gave students in Carnegie Mellon University’s Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences a firsthand look at how their skills translate beyond the classroom. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
Associate Professor Stephen Wittek also contributed an essay about early modern news culture, lunar fantasy, and astro-colonialism in Ben Jonson's space-masque, News from the New World Discovered in the Moon (1619).
pghrev.com/ben-jonsons-...
On Tuesday, June 9, Assistant Professor Camille Rankine will read her work at the Hemingway's Poetry Series. Read a preview of Camille's work at the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social: pghrev.com/camille-rank...
Many readers use “Best of” lists to help them decide what to read. In the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social, Department Head and Professor Christopher Warren shared his thoughts on how networks reveal what The Guardian's ranked list of the top 100 novels obscures. pghrev.com/networking-t...
This week in the @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social: reflections on the death of Marjane Satrapi, from Associate Professor Kathy M. Newman, along with two of the students who read Satrapi’s work in her class this spring.
pghrev.com/teaching-mar...
As new graduates begin their lives and careers beyond @cmu.edu, they retain access to many resources and programming opportunities at the Libraries.
Here are all the ways alumni can stay connected and continue to benefit from our offerings.
💻 Learn more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
In conjunction with the (In)hospitable Space Conference on our campus this week, @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social is publishing a series of pieces pertaining to space exploration, including this one by Professor and conference co-organizer James Wynn. pghrev.com/darwin-on-ma...
Over this summer PRoB will be featuring the work of upcoming readers that will be appearing at Pittsburgh’s venerable Hemingway’s Poetry Series, now
In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many
When Marjane Satrapi, the author of the best-selling graphic memoir, Persepolis, was six years old, she believed she had been chosen by God to be the next
The following essay is being published in conjunction with the "(In)hospitable Space Conference" which explores the human dimensions of space exploration and
The following essay is being published in conjunction with the "(In)hospitable Space Conference" which explores the human dimensions of space exploration and
