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December 4, 2024

Find the Synchronicity

In Chinese 311, Yijing hexagraphs are analyzed to explore Chinese text and tradition.

By Prof. Hyong Rhew [Chinese and humanities]

October 11, 2024

Remembering to Forget

Ancient Mediterranean Studies 382 explores the often-overlooked diversity of the Roman Empire, and the ruthlessness of Roman emperors.

July 22, 2024

Behind the Curtain

Catching up with a former student and star of HBO's The Gilded Age, Morgan Spector ’02

July 31, 2024

Environmental Humanities Initiative Launches Second Summer Incubator for Curricula Development

The incubator, funded by the Mellon Foundation, supports faculty developing EH courses.

March 13, 2024

Looking Versus Seeing

A glimpse into Art 551: Theories of Visuality, taught by Prof. Dana Katz.

March 8, 2024

Big Topics for Young Readers

The stories of British colonialism come to life in Prof. Natarajan’s Hear Our Voices.

March 8, 2024

Turning Points

On the path to professional fulfillment, sometimes we need a big change.

January 2, 2024

An Anthology of Disruptions, Large and Small

Library of America honors poet Gary Snyder ’51 with volume of his collected poems.

December 21, 2023

Campus Dig

Students excavate on Reed's campus in search of its lost history.

October 23, 2023

The Secret Cemetery

More than a million were buried on Hart Island, but families couldn’t visit. Melinda Hunt ’81 changed that.

July 28, 2023

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Prof. David Schiff’s musical journey winds through the vineyard with Susan Sokol-Blosser ’67 and around the track with Steve Prefontaine.

June 14, 2023

In New Essay, President Bilger Makes the Case for Public Writing

The piece appears in ‘Public Feminisms,’ an open-access book published in April by Lever Press.

April 21, 2023

In ‘Toad,’ Katherine Dunn ’69 Draws on Her Time at Reed

The posthumously published novel is wry and penetrating.

April 14, 2023

Through the Portal

Josh Riedel ’07 was Instagram’s first employee. His debut novel plunges readers into startup life.

March 16, 2023

Prof. Elizabeth Drumm Wins NEH Fellowship

With her project, the Spanish and humanities professor hopes to bring more attention to modernist author Ramón del Valle-Inclán.

February 28, 2023

Reed Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Environmental Humanities

The $500,000 initiative will fund new scholarship as well as the creation of courses centered on environmental justice and the literary imagination.

January 20, 2023

Spiritual Ecstasy

Spanish 344 uses sculpture to explore paradoxes between religion and aesthetics.

January 6, 2023

Changing the Lens

Nili Yosha ’07 empowers houseless youth through filmmaking.

December 21, 2022

Royal Musical Association Awards Dent Medal to Prof. Mark Burford

The scholar has spent the past 10 years focused on Black popular music studies, from Sam Cooke to Mahalia Jackson.

November 7, 2022

The Western

English 261 investigates a history of US film culture through the lens of the cinematic Western.

September 28, 2022

Newly Tenured Faculty Bring Ideas and Innovation to Reed

Get to know ten professors making exceptional contributions to the college’s mission.

September 6, 2022

Restored or Conquered?

In Russian Literature 371, students discover cultural messages in an 18th-century medallion that impact world events today.

September 13, 2022

Change Agents

Reed art professors and alumni explore biological flux in a new exhibit running concurrently with the Venice Biennale.

August 19, 2022

English Major Scores Unrue Award for Poetry Thesis

Kelly Wenzka ’22 synthesized theory from several disciplines to analyze tone of voice in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry.

March 30, 2022

Autonomy and Authority

Revolutions in early modern technology and scientific thought animated discussions about power—Hum 211/212 explores how.

March 30, 2022

Cultural Encounters

Looking beyond East-meets-West, students in Hum 211/212 set out to understand how early modern cultures changed one another.

March 30, 2022

Gendered Dialogues

Hum 211/212 reframes the Renaissance through the study of women.

March 23, 2022

The Birth of the Modern

In a series of essays, Reed's Humanities 211/212 faculty offer a glimpse into an unforgettable course.

March 25, 2022

Eid al-Fitr Makes Its Animated Debut

After growing up watching reactionary stereotypes, a screenwriter creates space for nuanced Muslim characters.

March 22, 2022

Happy Birthday Scriptorium!

The Calligraphy Initiative celebrates 10 years of serifs and glyphs, metal nibs and oak gall ink, and the generous support of a small group of alumni and friends who made it possible.

December 8, 2021

Inspiring Professors Named to Chairs

October 25, 2021

No Face, No Case

Students deconstruct portraiture at a new exhibition at the Cooley.

October 19, 2021

Historian of Big Questions

Reed mourns the loss of Prof. Ed Segel, who taught history for 38 years.

October 18, 2021

Beloved Beasts

Science writer Michelle Nijhuis ’96 explores the fascinating history of the conservation movement.

June 23, 2021

The Social Dynamics of Biology

Theatre/biology major wins Class of ’21 Award for production focused on diversity and inclusion in science.

June 23, 2021

Where There’s Smoke

Environmental studies major wins Class of ’21 award for innovative way to measure pollutants in wildfire smoke.

June 30, 2021

Pirouetting Through the Pandemic

How Reed’s dance professors found creative ways to teach despite the challenges of social distancing.

April 27, 2021

From Antiquity to Zoom

Reed’s Latin Forum brings Portland’s young scholars together.

April 9, 2021

Documentary as a Form of Resistance

In Spanish 372 students delve into documentary films about struggles for social justice.

March 22, 2021

Race, Ethnicity, and Empire

History 315 with Prof. Radhika Natarajan examines the complex relationship between the British empire and the people it colonized.

January 12, 2021

“Howl” Unleashed

Rare audio of Allen Ginsberg’s historic 1956 reading at ��Ƶ to be released by Omnivore Recordings.

January 11, 2021

The Artist With the Invisible Hand

John Laursen ’67 was honored with the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award.

December 15, 2020

Alaska Calling

Folk singer Mossy Kilcher ’66 has her regrets. Her life-changing time at Reed is not among them.

December 4, 2020

Professor Hailed for Book On Dance and Politics

Prof. Victoria Fortuna wins award for “exceptionally deep” study of dance and political violence.

November 19, 2020

Prof. Burford Wins Awards For Book on Mahalia Jackson

“Magisterial” study of gospel icon earns critical acclaim.

November 5, 2020

The Show Must Go On

With Rhinoceros, theatre department rethinks stagecraft in the era of social distancing.

November 3, 2020

Reed Welcomes New Faculty

An impressive group of professors join Reed's roster of dynamic profs.

October 23, 2020

Haitian Culture and Literature

Prof. Corine Stofle's French 366 is an introduction to Haiti's fascinating history and literature

September 23, 2020

Trouble in the Mines of Titan

A graphic novel by François Vigneault ’13 imagines a future beset with new forms of oppression on the moons of Saturn.

September 15, 2020

MAITA’s New Album Rocks the Critics

In her debut album Best Wishes, Maria Maita-Keppeler ’14 is intimate but never fragile.

July 20, 2020

Close Encounters of the Literary Kind

Professor Jiang wins ACLS fellowship to study modern Chinese literature.

July 4, 2020

Miniature in Ivory

An American Studies seminar will explore Jews and race in the early Atlantic world.

June 23, 2020

Messiaen’s Warbles and Woolf’s Waves

Comp-lit major wins prestigious Class of ’21 Award for thesis on “reading for gesture.”

June 1, 2020

#MeToo With The Early Moderns

Hum 212 studies the art of Artemisia Gentileschi, who took on the patriarchy in the 17th century.

May 4, 2020

Art Fills the Void

Students use 3D-scanning technology to mount senior thesis show.

April 29, 2020

Theatre Students Defy Covid-19

For spring production, students will perform the most notorious radio play of all time.

April 15, 2020

Six Outstanding Professors Earn Tenure

Teacher-scholars represent wide range of disciplines and expertise.

April 9, 2020

Music Prof Wins Award For Opera Based on WWI

Project gives voice to women affected by the Great War.

March 9, 2020

In the Soil of Cyprus, Clues to an Empire

Reed students dig for artifacts that could shed light on the world of Alexander the Great.

March 9, 2020

Teaming Up With June, July, and August

Reed helps students take advantage of a valuable resource—summertime.

March 3, 2020

Never Just Words

Prof. Samiya Bashir opens up about poetry, politics, and writer’s block.

March 2, 2020

Going Stoic

Can an ancient philosophy help you cope with your life right now?

February 4, 2020

Walk Run Cha-Cha All the Way

Will Laura Nix ’89 win an Oscar for her powerful new documentary?

February 3, 2020

“Master of the Brushstroke” Wins Eliot Award

Abstract artist David Reed ’68 to receive prestigious prize for lifetime achievement.

December 12, 2019

A History of Humanity

In the latest book by Tamim Ansary ’70, he focuses on the narratives that unite civilizations.

December 4, 2019

What the Sentence Can Do

With razor wit and trademark brio, Prof. Jan Mieszkowski takes on literature, philosophy, and the twitterverse.

December 3, 2019

How They Kept the Faith

Duncan Ryūken Williams ʾ91 uncovers the story of how Japanese-American Buddhist families survived imprisonment and fought for their freedom.

December 4, 2019

Classical Fun

High school students delve into topics ranging from Roman tattooing to volcanology at Reed's annual Latin Forum.

November 29, 2019

How Should Religion Be Taught?

A recent book celebrates the ideas and career of Prof. Steve Wasserstrom.

November 22, 2019

Mothers, Fathers, And Writers

Acclaimed author Lise Funderburg ’82 spent years trying to make sense of her dad. In her new anthology she asks other writers to do the same.

September 30, 2019

Rethinking The Canon

Lauri Ramey ’73 offers a new history of African American poetry with far-reaching implications for the study of Anglophone literature

September 24, 2019

Follow the Script

A pioneering chapter book takes center stage in Art 368

September 7, 2019

Good Eggs

Reedies flock to help Audubon save historic illustrations.

August 30, 2019

Scholar. Writer. Teacher. President.

There was no script for Audrey Bilger’s career. So she wrote her own.

March 19, 2019

Las Chuntá by Genevieve Roudané ’08

A documentary about tradition, community, and queer identity in Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico

July 19, 2019

Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

In a sweeping fiction by Janet Fitch ’78, a young woman comes of age amidst the tumult of the Russian Revolution.

June 23, 2019

Lucinda Parker: Force Fields

A 50-year retrospective and new book about painter Lucinda Parker ’66.

June 4, 2019

The Great Migration

Humanities 110 looks at the art of Harlem Renaissance painter Jacob Lawrence.

May 30, 2019

The Molecule Bender

Sculptor Byron Rubin ’65 traces the fateful symmetries that govern life—and death.

May 23, 2019

Forget Fast Fashion

A new venture hopes to change our relationship with what we wear.

May 8, 2019

Centaur of Gravity

Art major races to install thesis project in Eliot Circle before deadline.

April 9, 2019

Poet Wins Rome Prize

Prof. Samiya Bashir named as a fellow by the American Academy in Rome.

April 8, 2019

Last Lectures: Prof. Wally Englert [classics 1981–2018]

We salute retiring (and not-so-retiring) professors.

April 5, 2019

Hum 110 Moves to Harlem

Prof. Pancho Savery lectures on the art and politics of the Harlem Renaissance.

March 22, 2019

Performing Arts Profs on Paper

Six performing arts faculty publish books.

March 20, 2019

Art Major Wins Watson Fellowship

Rose Driver ’19 will travel the globe studying comics and community among the artists who create them.

March 15, 2019

Invasion of the Zines

Hauser Library launches “Zine Library” to incorporate new voices into its special collections.

March 12, 2019

Hum 110 Turns Its Lens On Mexico City

First-year students examine the metropolis from its foundation to the Zapatista protests of the 1990s.

March 1, 2019

David Schiff, Composer

Reed celebrates the musical legacy of Prof. David Schiff with three concerts.

February 14, 2019

The Dance of Death

Prof. Minh Tran stages his first major performance in eight years.

February 4, 2019

The Pyramid Conspiracy

What's behind the rise of pseudoarchaeology—and why should we care?

January 3, 2019

Using Mind Tricks To Remember Ulysses

Comp-lit major will exploit ancient mnemonic device to memorize passages from Joyce’s masterpiece.

December 6, 2018

The Power of the Spirit

Prof. Mark Burford examines the tension between devotion and emotion in a new book on gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.

November 29, 2018

The Voice of Prophecy

Vox Sibyla concert features music inspired by female prophets—literal and metaphorical.

November 16, 2018

RAW Sensation

Reed Arts Week wants you to use your senses—all of them.

November 15, 2018

Art Show Focuses on Refugee Crisis

Gulalhi, a solo exhibition by Stephanie Gervais ’09, opens at the Cooley Gallery.

October 22, 2018

Student Wins National Writing Award

Excellence in Interdisciplinary Writing Award given to MALS student Meg Cook.

October 4, 2018

Listening to Aretha Franklin

The standard narrative of her career overlooks an important dimension of her artistic accomplishment.

September 10, 2018

Constructing Gender

A Reed theatre class explores the relationship between gender and performance—on stage and off.

August 31, 2018

Gilgamesh Greets Class of ’22

Expanded Hum 110 syllabus kicks off with Mesopotamian epic.

August 30, 2018

Russian Major Wins Lankford Award for Thesis on Soviet Myths

August 29, 2018

Cooley Gallery Acquires Paintings by Kristan Kennedy

June 15, 2018

Renowned Authors Read at Reed

Reed hosts Tin House workshop in July.

June 12, 2018

Reedies Flourish With Fulbrights

Bumper crop of Reed grads win Fulbright fellowships.

June 7, 2018

Reed Receives $1 Million Grant for New Hum 110

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, staunch defender of the humanities, supports the expansion of the Hum 110 curriculum.

June 4, 2018

The Dynamic Classroom

Reed’s curriculum is constantly evolving—and it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

May 24, 2018

Chamber Music to Premiere at Reed

Chamber Music Northwest brings new work and venerable classics to Kaul Auditorium.

May 24, 2018

Revolutionary Spirit

Author Janet Fitch ’78 storms the barricades with new novel on the Russian Revolution.

May 23, 2018

Novel Sensation

Movie adaptation of Prof. Pete Rock's book hits theatres this summer.

May 22, 2018

Connecting the Dots

A look into Music 308: Music as Material Culture.

May 17, 2018

Thesis Casts New Light on Rome's Forgotten Female Poet

Classics major Lina Neidhardt ’18 wins two prestigious awards for her thesis.

May 1, 2018

Seven Professors Granted Tenure

Congrats to Professors Bashir, Cerveny, Cohen, Duffly, Khan, Szwarcberg Daby, and Zornik.

April 26, 2018

Dean Nicholson Challenges WSJ Editorial on Hum 110

Says Wall Street Journal editorial board mischaracterizes the changes to Hum 110.

April 16, 2018

Tango Musicians Will Tear It Up at Reed

June concert to feature performers from around the world.

April 13, 2018

New Hum 110 Gets National Attention

Changes to Reed's signature humanities course draw interest far and wide.

April 11, 2018

Faculty Charts Bold New Course for Hum 110

New syllabus marks an important moment in the evolution of the class, says Dean of the Faculty.

April 9, 2018

Theatre Professor Designs Punk Opera

Experimental musical is based on archive of iconic punk band Fugazi.

March 21, 2018

Reading Between the Lines

In honor of World Poetry Day, we offer some work by Reed poets.

February 27, 2018

The Philosopher of Sawdust

With chisel and hand plane, master craftsman Gary Rogowski ’72 joins woodwork and literature.

February 28, 2018

Disconnected Together

Prof. Kris Cohen tackles group identity in new book, "Never Alone, Except for Now."

February 15, 2018

Welcome to Here—24,859 Miles Away

Inspired by Voltaire, Reed art show “Academy of Saturn” captures the imagination through sight, sound, and even smell.

February 8, 2018

Reed Computer Expert Taps into Past

Former Broadway performer teaches tap dancing at Paideia

January 30, 2018

Violinist Receives Kahan Fellowship

History major Henry DeMarais ’18 explores techniques for modern compositions.

January 23, 2018

“Hell, Yeah, You Can Draw!”

Reedies learn to embrace the cartoonist within at Paideia.

January 3, 2018

Art Website Raves about Reed Exhibition

Hyperallergic names Cooley Gallery exhibition "Nothing is Natural" as one of the 20 best art shows of 2017.

November 14, 2017

Pure at Heart

Indie rocker Kip Berman ’02 releases fourth album with the Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

November 14, 2017

Pharaoh Triumphant

A look into Classics 375/History 395: Ancient Egyptian History and Civilization

December 1, 2017

Lend Me Your Ears

Open debate is crucial for democracy—even when we know we're right.

June 2, 2017

The Art of Listening

Reed's first ethnomusicologist on tango, culture, and the politics of music.

March 1, 2017

Breaking the Frame

Students in Art 251 tackle the ultimate outsider art form—comics!

March 1, 2017

Theatre-lit Major Stages Spring Crisis

Ashlin Hatch ’17 takes on Reed tradition and legend in a new play.

August 31, 2017

Hum 110: the Lost Lecture

Prof. Lucía Martinez Valdivia's "Lost" Lecture.

September 20, 2017

Reed Philosophers Hold their Ground

Prof. Troy Cross and Brian Haas '17 look to help two sides of a philosophy debate come together.

September 6, 2017

Is Gilgamesh Relevant?

Prof. Nathalia King gives epic Hum 110 lecture on empire, war, and the relevance of ancient cultures.

June 1, 2017

English Major by Day, Flattener by Night

Jenna Routenberg ’18 balances a Reed education on roller skates.

April 20, 2017

Religion Major Named Rhodes Scholar

Pema McLaughlin ’16 is the 32nd Reed graduate to win the prestigious award.

March 8, 2017

RAW Edges Closer to the Borderline

Artwork and activism at Reed Arts Week.

June 1, 2017

Shadow Puppets

A look into Theatre 323: Puppetry and the Performing Object

July 19, 2017

Senior Wins Award for Thesis on Chilean Art Resisters

The Lankford Award goes to Flavia Bortoleto ’17.

June 1, 2017

Poetry Prize Goes to Environmental Studies Major

Tiffany Thio ’19 tackles feats in science, the outdoors, and in poetry

July 18, 2017

Senior Wins Award for Thesis on Cyberfeminism

Ben Landauer ’17 translates Chinese poetry and rethinks literature in the digital age

July 13, 2017

Bashir and Rock Get Creative with Their Latest Projects

Two creative writing professors talk craft and colleagueship.

April 4, 2017

Podcast: Prof. Mark Burford on Chuck Berry's legacy

April 20, 2017

Taking a Fresh Look at Hum 110

Turning a critical eye on the college’s signature humanities course.

July 21, 2016

General Lit Major Wins Unrue Award

July 25, 2016

Seniors grasp philosophy prize

Elise Woodard ’16 and Ezra Schwartz ’16 win the Edwin N. Garlan Memorial Prize.

November 1, 2016

Profs vote to accelerate Hum 110 review

December 1, 2016

Prof Wins Awards to Pursue Work on Radical Theatre

Prof. Kate Bredeson is on the trail of the legendary Judith Malina.

September 1, 2016

The Hancock Variations

Prof. Virginia Hancock retires.

November 3, 2016

The Philosophy of Pain

Prof. Troy Cross [philosophy] discusses the difference between "good pain" and "bad pain" in a Hum 110 lecture.

September 1, 2016

What Is Religion, Exactly?

Pema McLaughlin '16 Wins Class of '21 Award.

September 1, 2016

Stepping Up

How do you help disconnected students succeed in school and life?

June 1, 2016

Ticking Away

Spanish Department hosts Inaugural Congress of LALISA.

March 1, 2016

Performers Win Kahan Fellowship

First Ever Winners of Jim Kahan Performing Arts Fellowship.

December 1, 2016

Teaching. Reaching. Inspiring.

Seven professors with a faculty for igniting ideas.

March 1, 2016

Borderline Geography

Chris Roth ’90 surveys the surreal territory of imaginary nations, microstates, and separatist movements.

June 1, 2016

The Age of Gunpowder

Why did China’s military technology fall behind the West?

March 1, 2016

Patterns of Power

How fashion reveals– and enforces– the hidden hierarchies of society.

June 1, 2016

Showrunner

How playwright Eric Overmeyer '73 mastered the small screen.

March 1, 2016

Art Exhibit Zeroes in on Plane of Existence

March 1, 2016

Sculptor of the Surreal, Whacker of Flowerpots

The high-wire life of Xenia Kashevaroff Cage ’35.

January 7, 2015

Film Focuses on Enigmatic Psychologist

February 13, 2015

Reed's Prince of Fashion Makes Splash at Art Museum

June 18, 2015

Philip Roth, Trigger Warnings, and the Day I Brought My Lawyer to Class

March 1, 2015

Jump for Joy—Reed Launches Dance Major

June 1, 2015

Portland on the Take

Benji Fisher ’94 probes Stumptown’s seedy past.

June 1, 2015

Woman for All Seasons

Playwright Caroline Miller ’59, MAT ’65, dusts off script after a dramatic pause lasting four decades.

March 1, 2015

The Science of Theatre

Prof. Peter Ksander uses the stage as a laboratory.

June 1, 2015

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Uncovering the origins of science fiction in the ancient classics.

September 1, 2015

Chinese Major Wins Unrue Award

September 1, 2015

Seniors Grasp Philosophy Prize

September 1, 2015

Literature-Theatre Major Nabs Class of '21 Award

Leah Artenian ’15 won the Class of ’21 award for her senior thesis adapting “The Year of Silence” for the stage.

September 1, 2015

History Types Win Lankford Prize

December 1, 2015

The Selling of Modernism

How the CIA turned the work of subversive intellectuals into a weapon of the Cold War.

December 1, 2015

A Musician’s Life in Counterpoint

Jan DeWeese ’71 transforms solo to duet through his art and teaching.

December 1, 2015

Muckraking through the Ages

An anthology of investigative reporting shows the power of journalism to expose injustice.

December 1, 2015

Art Professor Sculpts the City

Prof. Gerri Ondrizek challenges her students to reinvent urban spaces.

April 25, 2014

Cooley Gallery Wins a Ford Family Foundation Facilities Grant

April 28, 2014

Walking in the Snow to Hear Gary Snyder

May 13, 2014

Prof. Peter Rock Wins Guggenheim

May 7, 2014

Prof. Mark Burford explores one of America’s most distinctive—and powerful—musical traditions

September 1, 2014

Marshmallow Noir

Jen Graham ’01 pens the further adventures of Veronica Mars

June 1, 2014

Behind the Curve

Prof. Josh Howe explores the paradoxical history of global warming.

June 1, 2014

Stroke of Genius

Producer Farley Ziegler ’84 makes a documentary about one man’s quest to unlock the artistic secrets of Johannes Vermeer.

June 1, 2014

Poet || Artist

Jim Haba ’62 is equally at home on the blank page and the blank canvas.

June 1, 2014

Cliff Hanger

Who built that amazing house? A Reedie, of course.

March 1, 2014

Sketching Infinity

Vance Feldman ’05 is busy drafting what may be the longest illustration in the world.

December 1, 2014

Crisis in Arnhem Land

Joshua Bell ’99 turns his lens on Aboriginal Australians fighting to save their culture.

March 1, 2013

Behind the Mask

Artist-activist Lynn Bowers ’65 sculpts a life in clay.

June 1, 2013

Apuleius Unbridled

Professor Sonia Sabnis reads The Golden Ass with a fresh eye.

September 1, 2013

Master of Deception

Wordsmith Roger Hobbs ’11 on the art of addictive fiction.

September 1, 2013

Between Two Worlds

Shadab Zeest Hashmi ’95 navigates the journey from Pakistan to California.

September 1, 2013

The Canvas and the Clue

How Jim Coddington ’73 solved a Jackson Pollock mystery.

September 1, 2013

Coloring Outside the Lines

Kathleen Flannigan ’62 rallies the disabled artists’ movement.

May 13, 2015

Bart Simpson and the Apocalypse

December 1, 2013

Theatre of War

Jonathan Wei ’88 helps military veterans tell their stories.

December 1, 2013

Taking off the Gloves

Prof. Kate Bredeson challenges students to make theatre that is both real and unreal.

December 1, 2013

The Electric Mr. Burns

Playwright Anne Washburn ’91 wows Broadway with a drama that fuses Euripides with The Simpsons.

December 1, 2013

Adolescent Drama

Bruce Livingston ’65 helps troubled teens harness the power of narrative.

December 1, 2013

Cosmic Comic

Funnyman James Ashby ’04 brings down the house on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Theater.

December 1, 2013

Songs for Kukua

Ghanaian musician finds his voice at Reed.

December 1, 2013

Total Immersion

Reed band Hausu makes national debut.

December 1, 2013

Dance of the Pixel, iPad in Hand

Reed professor develops app for terpsichorean technology.

June 1, 2012

With the flowering of the cherry trees in Eliot Circle comes the spring crop of student awards and fellowships. We salute the following Reed students for their scholarship, dedication, and inventiveness.

June 1, 2012

Professors’ Corner

March 1, 2012

Road Warrior

Runaway. Street musician. Cab driver. Author. Vanessa Veselka ’10 built a career—and wrote a novel—that defies convention.

December 1, 2012

The Battle of the Bard

Jan Powell MALS ’86 says literary editors have diluted Shakespeare’s fury.

December 1, 2012

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Peter Zuckerman ’03 and the sherpas who survived K2

December 1, 2012

The Uncharted Geography of Lena

Chekhov. Odysseus. Frankenstein. Swimsuits. You just never know where Professor Lena Lenček will turn up next.

December 1, 2012

The Metaphysics of Swimming

December 1, 2012

Calligraphy Makes a Comeback

December 1, 2012

Rediscovering Lloyd Reynolds

A long-lost calligraphy manual of Lloyd Reynolds is finally published.

December 1, 2012

How the Dutch Lost Taiwan

Tonio Andrade ’92 examines China’s first great military victory over the West.

December 1, 2012

Hoodwinked

Historian Amy Reading ’98 recounts a provocative tale of chicanery and vengeance.

December 1, 2012

The Disappearing Trick

Anthropologist Graham Jones ’97 reveals how magicians guard their craft in the internet age.

September 1, 2011

Herodotus and The Invention of History

March 1, 2011

What Hum 110 Is All ��Ƶ

September 1, 2011

Star Struck

A random accident transported Morgan Spector ’02 from bartending obscurity to Broadway sensation.

September 1, 2009

Channeling Sappho

How Mary Barnard ’32 liberated the ancient Greek poet from a prison of Victorian rhymes.

March 2, 2009

Dancing Across Borders

Prof. Minh Tran brings new rhythm to dance department

December 1, 2009

To Hell And Back

Religion professor Ken Brashier explores the afterlife of imperial China through a collection of “hell scrolls”—macabre paintings that depict an underworld of gruesome torments, merciless demons, and an infernal bureaucracy run amok.

December 1, 2008

When The Beats Came Back

How a 1956 road trip by Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder ’51 shaped “Howl,” and left Reed with the earliest-known recording of the epic.

August 2, 1999

Afternoons with the Muse

How poet Mary Barnard ’32 inspired me to find my voice.

August 2, 1999

The Words She Commands

Translating Sappho From the Heart