Arts & Humanities

March 6, 2025

The Library Is the Beating Heart of Reed College

President Bilger and Reed library leaders discuss the impact of the campus hub.

By Sheena McFarland

March 10, 2025

Nina Simone’s Gum

Religion 363 students seek to answer: How does a thing like, say, a piece of gum, transform into a religious artifact?

March 12, 2025

Finding the Words

In 2024, Aidan Mokalla ’25 traveled to Tajikistan to study Persian as part of the Critical Language Scholarship program.

March 11, 2025

Living Laboratory

Fall snapshots from Reed’s Environmental Humanities initiative where community, place, and scholarship converge to solve pressing issues of our time.

March 7, 2025

Water's Hand

Inside Art 350, where studying art history reveals insights about our changing climate.

March 6, 2025

A Repository of Human History

The D.C. alumni chapter recently visited head curator Leslie Overstreet ’71 at the Smithsonian’s Cullman rare book library to learn what clues lie within the materiality of books.

December 4, 2024

Find the Synchronicity

In Chinese 311, Yijing hexagraphs are analyzed to explore Chinese text and tradition.

September 2, 2024

Season to Taste with Queer Forms

Elizabeth Blake ’04 explores desire, gratification, and embodiment in her first book.

December 2, 2024

Professor-Student Team Translate The Inheritor

Prof. Kate Bredeson and Thalia Wolff ’22 collaborated on the first English-language translation of the play about class inequality and access to higher education.