Arts & Humanities

In what would have been B.B. King's 100th birthday year, CU Boulder music scholar Shawn O'Neal considers how the legends of blues can be heard in even the fizziest pop of 2025.

CU Boulder’s Ann Schmiesing, professor of German and Scandinavian studies, has published the first English-language biography in more than five decades on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

"Who Let The Dogs Out," the Baha Men hit released 25 years ago, occupies a distinctive spot in music and sports history, along with "Macarena" and other novelty "ear worms."

In this edition of "Unlocking Scholarly Publishing," the University Libraries dive into pop star Taylor Swift's journey into becoming a champion for author's rights.

CU Boulder's William Kuskin, who teaches a course on comics and graphic novels, considers Superman's enduring appeal as Hollywood debuts a new adaptation about the Man of Steel.

Fifty years after "Jaws" made swimmers flee the ocean, CU Boulder cinema scholar Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz explains how the 1975 summer hit endures as a classic.

When Taylor Howard dove into research on Sister Mary Dominic Ray, she was expecting to find the nun's biography, books she annotated or articles she wrote. Instead, she unlocked a highly varied collection of documents that left Sister Mary a mystery.

"The Great Gatsby" remains relevant for modern readers by shapeshifting with the times, says CU Boulder scholar Martin Bickman.

In a new audio storytelling project, CU Boulder scholar Doris Loayza works to preserve the traditional tales and lore of the Peruvian highlands.

For artist and Professor of Printmaking Melanie Yazzie, making art is about much more than creating something aesthetically pleasing.