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.

The nearly-forgotten story of the Greek American mogul, his humanitarian action and his connections to the White House are what intrigued Stanford Continuing Studies Lecturer Chrissochoidis to look deeper and unveil more details of the prominent Greek figure.

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 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.

Henry Lowood, curator for the libraries' history of
science and
technology collections and film and media collections, and Robert
Trujillo, head of special collections, discuss how the libraries
have
adapted their policies to new copying technology. Leslie...

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.  

Elizabeth Bernhardt, professor of German studies and director of
the
language center, encourages caution when using machine translations.

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.