Sarah Higinbotham

In this our fourth pandemic semester, I’ve been thinking about what it takes to endure. Fortunately, I have a lifelong friend, college roommate, and college …

Simone Weil writes that “attention is the purest form of generosity.” As a way to be more attentive to people around me, and in celebration …

I’m honored to be teaching alongside my friend Brian Kurlander this semester, approaching Hamlet from many perspectives.

As I followed my Emeritus College colleagues reading Hamlet, I was moved by their presence. Each of these colleagues personalized the play for me — made …

Our semester began in a familiar pattern of socratic classes, poetry readings, faculty meetings, writing, theater productions, and events — with a special emphasis on …

Join us for a conversation with two Atlanta visionaries who have transformed their communities: October 3, 2019, 7:30 p.m. in Williams Hall. Special guest Judge …

This semester I will be teaching the entire canon of British Literature, from about 900-2014. I cannot imagine a greater professional privilege. English 255 surveys …

This semester, Oxford students are reading Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy and have the opportunity to hear him speak along with Anthony Ray Hinton, whom Stevenson …

In addition to running a hundred miles through Yosemite Valley with my family, hiking the Appalachian Trail for two weeks, and teaching at the prison,  …

Since 1667, John Milton’s Paradise Lost has awed, angered, and inspired readers. It’s a poem of enormous ambition and profound beauty, one that novelists, classical …