Feature story discusses graduate student in music Holly Herdon"s
work with Stanford University's Center for Computer Research
in
Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Work done by music lecturer Robert
Henke is also mentioned.

At Stanford University in 2012, a young literature scholar named
Natalie
Phillips used a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
machine to track the blood flow of readers" brains when
they read Jane
Austen's Mansfield Park.

Stanford will encourage and pay for humanities graduate students to pursue careers as high school teachers, starting next year.

A feature on on Nyree (Rabushka) Belleville (AB Economics 1994) who writes romance novels under the name
Bella Andre.

David Palumbo-Liu, professor of comparative literature, responds to an open letter to professors of Asian
American studies about a proposed boycott of Israel.

David Palumbo-Liu, professor of comparative literature, responds
to an
open letter to professors of Asian American studies about a proposed
boycott of Israel.

David Kennedy, Stanford Professor Emeritus of History, praises
historian
Mary Roberts' new novel "What Soldiers Do: Sex and
the American
GI in World War II France" as a nuanced view on a often
idealized
war.

The Oxonian Rerview, May 13, 2013

A review of "10 Buildings that Changed America,"
a one-hour PBS
documentary that features Caroline Winterer, professor of history,
reflecting on the design of the Virginia Capitol.

Blau (MA Speech & Drama, 1949; PhD English, 1954) was a
transformational figure in American regional theater.

A review of a wide range of performances staged by Stanford Live including the pair of one-act operas by Jonathan Berger, Professor of Music at Stanford. 

A review of a wide range of performances staged by Stanford Live
including the pair of one-act operas by Jonathan Berger, Professor
of
Music at Stanford.

Author, graduate student, and Wallace Stegner Fellow Anthony Marra
contemplates his favorite line in the novel Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson.

Clayborne Carson, history professor and director of the Martin
Luther
King Jr. Research and Education Institute is quoted in this article
commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Birmingham student
walkout.

Humanities faculty and graduate students at Stanford are pioneering a new approach to graduate training that integrates classroom teaching and dissertation research

BY BENJAMIN HEIN

On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, Ian Beacock, a PhD candidate in history at Stanford, and his undergraduate students are working...