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News

  • NYT Remembers Charles K. Williams II

    October 12, 2026

  • Professor Emeritus Michael Meister Endows Penn Libraries' South Asian Collections with $4M Gift

    October 12, 2026

  • American School Mourns Passing of Charles K. Williams II

    September 16, 2026

  • Shira Brisman's "The Goldsmith's Debt" reviewed in New York Review of Books

    September 8, 2026

  • Remembering Our Friend and Colleague, Darlene Jackson

    August 18, 2026

  • Julia Perratore (PhD'12) quoted in New York Times article

    August 6, 2026

  • Prof. Ann Kuttner and PhD student Benjy Jude in Penn Today

    July 21, 2026

  • Michael Leja awarded the 2026 Ewell Newman Book Prize

    July 8, 2026

  • Ramey Mize (PhD'23) curates "Winslow Homer, Painter Etcher"

    July 7, 2026

  • Rita de Cássia do Monte Lima and Iris Péron-Ames receive the 2026 Stallybrass Prize in the History of Material Texts

    May 11, 2026

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Upcoming Events

  • COLLOQUIUM - David Young Kim, "Onomatopoeia and Shivering: Listening to the Italian Renaissance in postwar South Korea"

    Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 3:30pm

  • COLLOQUIUM - Rhea Swain, "Containing Precarity: American Ice and Global Silverware in the Nineteenth Century"

    Wednesday, October 21, 2026 - 3:30pm

  • Artist Talk | Eileen Neff: Through That Which Is Seen

    Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm

  • The Hidden Life of Labor

    Thursday, October 22, 2026 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm

  • COLLOQUIUM - Ana Ozaki, "The Intimate Occupation: On Lusotropicalism and Architecture"

    Wednesday, October 28, 2026 - 3:30pm

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Graduate Chair: Sarah Guérin
Undergraduate Chair: Ivan Drpic

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