Nathan H. Dize has been named a literary host for the 2026 Words Without Borders Gala, recognizing his contributions to international literature, translation, and the Francophone Caribbean literary community.

Here’s a look at the Graduate Student Fellows joining the humanities center for the 2026-27 academic year. The competitively selected students actively participate in the center’s intensive, interdisciplinary intellectual environment.

Laurent Bili, Ambassador of France to the United States, visited Washington University on February 26, along with a delegation from the Consulat de France in Chicago. The program included a guided visit to John M. Olin Library, featuring WashU Libraries’ original copy of the Declaration of Independence and a curated selection of texts and documents.

The internationally recognized journal Revista de Estudios Hispánicos brings global scholarship to WashU, highlighting collaboration, mentorship, and leadership on campus.

Arts & Sciences faculty are transforming classrooms by taking students into communities, workplaces, and digital spaces, creating lessons that resonate far beyond campus.

This article examines how the act of glossing provides an entry point into how translators of Haitian literature have approached polyglossic Haitian writing and the cultural layers present in Haitian fiction. It then explores how the author has crafted glossaries in the Haitian novels that he has translated to achieve translational goals that challenge the often violent, colonial function of categorizing words in languages other than English, the dominant language of the US literary market. The essay concludes by reflecting on how the glossary might prepare the ground for future readers to relate to Haitian literature beyond colonial, paternalistic, and heterosexist frames.

This essay offers a transnational feminist analysis of the exhibit Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, organized in spring 2021 by curator Jasmine Wahi for the Bronx Museum of the Arts. It examines how Born in Flames deploys a caring curatorial practice that centers the creative projects of Black and Brown artists from different regions of the Global South.

William Acree, vice dean of interdisciplinary initiatives and innovation and a professor of Spanish, has been named a fellow with the Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership.

The academy, a partnership between Arizona State University and Georgetown University, helps to train leaders and innovators in higher education. Its program combines three intensive in-person meetings with online seminars and one-on-one coaching, with the goal of generating new ideas for participants to take back to their home campuses.

This fall, 17 new researchers and instructors join 11 humanities departments and programs in Arts & Sciences.

What can tacos or tubes of lipstick teach us about history and culture? Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Eileen G’Sell explore the surprising answers in new editions of the popular book series about the secret lives of everyday objects.