Professor Jenny Richards reflects on the 'Humanities and STEM: Skills/competencies workshop' which she convened on 6 May 2026.

Literary criticism is a supremely occasional skill, where you have to be bold enough to operate where there aren’t any...

Samaritans responds to EHRC guidance after 40% rise in calls following Supreme Court ruling

ALT: Jem and the Holograms: Pink Hair Power

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

Two poems by Virginia Woolf have resurfaced. I found them tucked in the back of a folder of letters to her niece Angelica Bell in the Harry Ransom Center

The organization has chosen an interpretation of fiduciary responsibility beyond the wildest hopes of Chicago School economists.

27 September 2024 “A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data Modernism has a problem with data. Within adjacent fields—Victorian, Post45, and Black studies—there has been a proliferation of a…

Learn how public health impacts the design of public spaces, as explored in the 2024 symposium of FOLAR, held at The MERL.

A companion list for lit studies scholars.

Opinion:

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has assembled lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in that calendar year, and we’re doing the same this year for 2024 publi...