March 2022 News

Sheila Heti
March 25, 2022
The Whitney Humanities Center will host Canadian author Sheila Heti as a Franke Visiting Fellow during the fall 2022 semester. Sheila Heti’s literary oeuvre comprises...
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
March 24, 2022
Last week, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke ’97 made the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction. O’Rourke is editor of...
Two English Girls (1971)
March 23, 2022
Films at the Whitney is ramping back up after two long years away. On March 3, 2022, the screening room in the lower level of the Humanities Quadrangle—affectionately known...
March 18, 2022
What happens when we think of the desert not as a margin, but as a center and a focus of study? Jill Jarvis from the Department of French discusses the genesis of “Desert...