Welcome to the Faculty of Arts, a dynamic community of students, faculty and staff working in and across the humanities, social sciences, and fine, performing and media arts. Through our diverse range ...

UofL Assistant Professor of Anthropology Kathryn Marklein co-authored a study that contradicts past literature about the ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

CANTON, Ohio – OK, this was a new one on us: There is an Armored MMA league featuring professional medieval combat. And it’s bringing an event to Northeast Ohio on Saturday, June 7.

We’ve picked some of our favorite medieval games available to play now, from the realistic to the preposterous. This list isn’t necessarily ranked in any particular order. All of them are ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

These reflected early medieval ecclesiastical concerns in regulating society ... One story that demonstrates the attempts by Christian literature to put a stop to these cruel, supposedly pagan ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

I’m currently taking a seminar investigating depictions of Jesus in late medieval literature and art. Though the middle ages may seem far removed — or maybe even irrelevant — from our ...

There, he witnessed the start of a fabled literary bond between his fellow poets Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon, to whom Ginsberg dedicated his seminal poem “Howl,” first published in 1956.