Arts & Humanities
- Award-winning author and CU Boulder Professor Stephen Graham Jones shares advice with writers who may be reflecting on their 50,000 words for National Novel Writing Month.
- “The Exorcist” film, which recently turned 50, continues to leave a mark on Christians and the larger American public as both a horror film and a story about the battle between good and evil. Associate Professor Deborah Whitehead discusses.
- CU Boulder Victorian literature scholars discuss why Charles Dickens’ classic is still retold and probably will be retold in Christmases yet to come.
- CU Boulder researcher Antje Richter studies early medieval Chinese records of the strange to understand how literature explores what it means to be human.
- Art investments involve unique risks but may protect purchasing power. Get Associate Professor Christophe Spaenjers’ take.
- “Doctor Who” turns 60 this year, and CU Boulder scientist, alumna and “Whovian” super fan attributes the BBC show’s success and staying power to its relatable protagonist and strong plotlines.
- Recovered from looters, a new archaeological discovery from a cave in western Mongolia could change the story of the evolving relationship between humans and horses in the ancient world.
- CU Boulder researcher Mathias Nordvig joined “The Ampersand” podcast to discuss animism, Norse mythology and what it means to live on Earth.
- Marking the 90th anniversary this month of the first “photograph” of the Loch Ness monster, a CU Boulder scholar muses on what qualifies as truth and fiction, and the overlap of conspiracy theories and myths.
- It’s not easy to create a work of literature that truly lasts. In a critically acclaimed new translation of “The Iliad,” CU Boulder classics Professor Laurialan Reitzammer sees the enduring relevance of Homer.