Alunood Aldhawi

Alunood is a PhD student in Philosophy. Her research interests lie in practical philosophy, particularly at its intersections with political, moral, and social philosophy. She focuses on questions of...

Nicholson Fellowship 2026 Awarded to Namita Gupta and Adil Zahoor

Namita Gupta and Adil Zahoor have been awarded 2026 Nicholson Fellowship to attend School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University.  In an intensive six-week course of study, participants work with a faculty of distinguished scholars in one of four...

Rethinking Agency, Freedom, and the Anthropocene in the Environmental Humanities: A Dialogue

On November 18, 2025, Pollyanna Rhee (Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and John Levi Barnard (English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) engaged in a dialogue on “Environmental Humanities” as part of the Modern Critical Theory (MCT) lecture series.Their dialogue responded to a culture that often treats environmental knowledge as abundant yet environmental action as elusive. Over the evening, the two speakers explored related yet distinct trajectories: Rhee examined the intellectual challenges the Anthropocene brings to historical study, while...
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