George Saunders will be appearing at Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures as part of the "Ten Evening Series" at the Carnegie Music Hall on September 14th, 2026 at

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The Pittsburgh Review of Books will be taken a one-month break in anticipation of the fall semester. When we return on August 31st, we'll begin publishing not

Meet the new cohort of Dietrich College Scholars at CMU.

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...

Recent graduate LiLi DiMuzio was selected as the recipient for an award that's given to an outstanding graduating senior.

Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows.

Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows.

Ed Simon presents 50 short chapters that are asynchronously organized works of flash criticism, meant to draw connections across time periods, which each celebrate…

When Marjane Satrapi, the author of the best-selling graphic memoir, Persepolis, was six years old, she believed she had been chosen by God to be the next

(In)Hospitable Space Conference Considers Life Beyond Earth

Over this summer PRoB will be featuring the work of upcoming readers that will be appearing at Pittsburgh’s venerable Hemingway’s Poetry Series, now

In an unfamiliar city, I rarely walk into an empty restaurant. How good could the food be if nobody eats there? At least a crowded restaurant's one that many

The following essay is being published in conjunction with the "(In)hospitable Space Conference" which explores the human dimensions of space exploration and

2026 Graduates Celebrated in Diploma Ceremony

For the second year, undergraduate students studying the humanities spent a weekend exploring different careers for humanities graduates.

Dietrich College has selected a trio of humanities students — Rachael Mulvihill, Hannah Fechtner and Kari Thomas — as the college's 2026 graduate teaching award and teaching assistant award winners.

Jane McCafferty Receives Inaugural Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Literary Citizenship Award

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds

An interdisciplinary conference cooperatively organized by representatives from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of English and partner organizations.

Nupoor Ranade is an assistant professor in the Department of English. Her expertise stems from a humanities and engineering education which has helped her bring together critical questions from the hu...

This year’s Winter Institute in Pittsburgh will feature a poets’ salon, a keynote conversation with poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and an appearance by U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze.

This page details Carnegie Mellon University's Pre-College Writing & Culture program and its associated eligibility requirements, application requirements, and frequently asked questions.

As the year 1965 was coming to an end, movie lovers were treated to the release of a massive Hollywood production that would become an all-time classic: Metro