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The future of decline in America
Jed Esty in his office

Jed Esty

The future of decline in America

In his new book “The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits,” English Professor Jed Esty offers alternatives to America’s “language of greatness,” taking lessons from the experience of Britain during the past century.
Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press
two sets of arms over a hand-operated printing press, one set with gloved hands putting ink on a metal cylinder and the other placing a printing plate with an image of a tree without leaves on the flat surface in front of the cylinder

Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin works with a hand-operated printing press in Penn’s Common Press, located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, to print pages for her forthcoming book.

Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press

Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin is printing a book she wrote and illustrated, inspired by a 400-plus-year-old volume in the Penn Libraries collection, sponsored by a residency with the Philadelphia Center for the Book.
On book bans and free speech
Sigal Ben-Porath in conversation at the Graduate School of Education

Sigal Ben-Porath is a professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division. She studies the ways institutions like schools and colleges can sustain and advance democracy.  

(Image: Eric Sucar)

  • Q&A

    • On book bans and free speech

    Sigal Ben-Porath of the Graduate School of Education says book bans and challenges affect free speech and expression, especially for young people, and that institutions of higher education are important for developing tools based on evidence for assessment.
    Examining experimental print in ‘Cut/Copy/Paste’
    Whitney Trettien standing in a stairwell.

    Whitney Trettien, assistant professor of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, has just published her first book, "Cut/Copy/Paste." 

  • Q&A

    • Examining experimental print in ‘Cut/Copy/Paste’

    In her first book, Whitney Trettien of the School of Arts & Sciences experiments with printed and digital assets while examining bookwork from the 17th and 18th centuries.
    More intricate riddles of life on ‘In These Times’
    Fantasy drawing of a human overcoming inner demons.

    Image: Marina Munn

    More intricate riddles of life on ‘In These Times’

    Episodes 4 and 5 of the OMNIA podcast’s fourth season cover how to confront trauma, using words as a coping mechanism, and music and meaning.

    Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’
    Joan DeJean and the cover of her book Mutinous Women

    In her latest book “Mutinous Women,” Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French Colony of Louisiana. DeJean’s research follows their paths and corrects the historical record, documenting that they were victims, unjustly accused and convicted.

    (Image: Candace diCarlo)

    Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’

    In her latest book, Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French colony of Louisiana.
    Undergraduate research projects look at migration from multiple angles
    art of people walking across a brown expanse carrying suitcases and bundles

    For the 2021-2022 academic year, the Wolf Humanities Center explored the topic of migration. Image: The Migration of the Negro, #18: The migration gained in momentum, 1941. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12"x18". Lawrence, Jacob (1917-2000) ©ARS, NY Location: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.

    Undergraduate research projects look at migration from multiple angles

    The Wolf Undergraduate Humanities forum takes on the topic of migration, with individual research projects ranging from slavery debates within the Jewish Orthodox community to Southeast Asian refugee youth.

    Kristina García

    Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
    four faculty faces

    Four Penn faculty have been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are (left to right, top to bottom) Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English, all in the School of Arts & Sciences.

    Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

    Four faculty have been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows—Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English in the School of Arts & Sciences.