Recent Fordham Graduate Nabs Spot on UA’s ‘Highly Commended’ List
Margaret Fisher, a 2017 graduate of the honors program at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, was named to…
Literature
NEH Grant Awarded to Modern Languages Professor to Study “Child-Gifting”
A member of Fordham’s Department of Modern Languages and Literature has won a grant from…
Deixis: The Most Common Unit of Grammar That You Never Heard Of
“I don’t want to sit next to that aunt at Christmas.” Practically speaking, this statement…
Dostoevsky’s Sharp Criticisms of Catholicism Examined in Orthodox Christian Studies Lecture
Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, is well known for…
The Needy and the Needed: Grappling with Tough Questions about Homelessness and Service
Molly Shilo was frustrated. When she had signed up for Susan Greenfield’s course on homelessness…
Method Acting, Practiced by Many but Criticized by Some
In casual conversation, “method actor” is often a wry quip, tossed out in reference to…
Scholar Traces Evangelical Anti-Intellectualism to 19th-Century Reading Habits
Evangelical Christians have long acknowledged that anti-intellectualism has plagued their religious tradition. As Evangelical historian…
Don DeLillo’s Masterwork, Annotated by the Author
On Dec. 2 in Manhattan, a first edition of Underworld, the 1997 novel by acclaimed…
How We Hear Influences Who We Are, Sound Scholar Finds
The sound of a New York City subway roaring beneath an apartment building at night…
Renaissance Relevance in the 21st Century
Chivalric and epic poems of the Renaissance might seem to have little to do with…