Essaka Joshua’s research has taken her from The New York Public Library to archives in Scotland, tracing the intersections of Romantic theatre and disability studies.

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The Notre Dame team drew interdisciplinary expertise from across campus.

The award will be presented to Buckles at the College’s spring faculty meeting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, at McKenna Hall. At the same meeting, Jeff Harden, the Andrew J. McKenna Family College Professor in the Department of Political Science, will receive the Arts & Letters Research Award.

Americans say they love compromise. But elected officials — people who want to keep their voters happy and secure reelection — are increasingly choosing conflict and polarization instead, unwilling to be seen as working across the aisle.

David Campbell, the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and ...

Having grown up in both Louisiana and Morocco, Faiza Filali arrived at Notre Dame as a speaker of seven languages with plenty of global experience. So when she started planning her academic path in international politics, she could’ve easily gotten a head start in a number of specialties.

During her NEH fellowship, Maloy will work on a monograph exploring the Old Hispanic rite, tentatively titled “Sounding the Saints in Early Medieval Iberia.” Jech will write a monograph that wrestles with the totality of Søren Kierkegaard’s seminal 1843 work, Fear and Trembling.

Natalie Magura is determined to make the most of her undergraduate years.

Stepping into Kate Marshall’s office is a bit like stepping into a one-room museum, with antique typewriters, artifacts of early cinema, and book-making tools among the pieces on her shelves.

“There’s a value in generalists in a world that’s increasingly specialized.”

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During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother’s bloodstream and tissues. They can settle in maternal organs such as the thyroid, liver, lungs, brain and heart — and can persist there for decades.

Modern neuroscience understands the brain as a set of specialized systems. Aspects of brain function such as attention, perception, memory, language and...

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When John Babbo first stepped onto the University of Notre Dame’s campus, he imagined himself studying great books and cheering in the student sec...

Eighteenth-century German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote that, “only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.” A group of Un...

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As we look to the new year, we reflect and celebrate the top five most-read stories from the College of Arts & Letters in 2025.

For a historian, finding 20 boxes of archived source material is a pretty big deal. And when Patrick McKelvey found more than 150 boxes of papers stemmi...

Mark Roche, the Rev. Edmund Joyce, C.S.C., Professor…

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For Yasmin Solomonescu, literary studies isn’t just a place to explore her own ideas — it’s an opportunity to pull in more voices and ...

Clinical psychologists often narrow in on just one topic for their research. But the life experiences researchers study don’t always occur separat...

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Francis and Kathleen Rooney of Washington, D.C., and Naples, Florida, have made a gift to the University of Notre Dame to endow an institute in the Coll...

The Department of Economics in the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame has added 11 new economists to its faculty, including t...

Six interdisciplinary scholars have joined the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame to continue their research, obtain invaluab...

To help identify — and ultimately mitigate — heat islands in South Bend, a team of University of Notre Dame researchers has partnered with t...

Tarryn Chun backstage at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.…

Each election cycle, thousands of candidates vie for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Until now, there has been no comprehensi...