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The Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University promotes excellence and innovation in humanities scholarship and engages the greater community in humanities research.
06/03/2026
Happy Pride Month! 🌈 At the Humanities Institute, we are proud to be a hub where q***r and trans scholarship can thrive all year long. Through our Q***r X Humanities initiative, faculty and students gain the opportunity engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and critical dialogue about LGBTQIA2S+ culture, history and politics.
Interested in getting involved? Connect with us at humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/q***r-x-humanities
06/03/2026
For Pride Month, we’re revisiting a few books by writers from the Piper and ASU creative writing community:
The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren
Three very different books - a YA novel, a poetry collection, and a memoir-in-essays - each attentive to questions of identity, intimacy, language, and the stories we inherit.
Have you read any of these yet? Drop your favorite LGBTQ+ reads in the comments so we can keep building our summer TBR list.
https://piper.asu.edu/
05/27/2026
Get all your burning questions answered about the Golden Age of Piracy 🏴☠️ in a Reddit AMA featuring ASU's own Manushag Powell, a professor of English and pirate literature expert!
Join the fun on June 6 or submit your question in advance: https://ow.ly/s6Wy50Z3rAH
05/20/2026
Edit: Carla LynDale Bishop, Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines are recognized for their work on "Mapping Blackness."
Congratulations to the 17 amazing faculty members who make up our cohort of spring seed grant recipients! Learn more about their projects at https://news.asu.edu/b/20260519-asu-humanities-institute-announces-spring-2026-seed-grant-recipients
05/20/2026
We can't believe the semester is over! Shout-out to the incredible fellows who completed their fellowship year with us: Evan Berry, Peter Joseph Torres, Linh Vu, Jed Samer, Mónica Espaillat Lizardo and Rachel Corbman! 👏
05/11/2026
We're thrilled to share Dan Gilfillan is joining the Humanities Institute as the 2026-27 Research Development Fellow! A Humanities Institute seed grant recipient with over a decade of institutional history, Dan will assist with programming development, national alliance-building and grant initiatives. Learn more: https://news.asu.edu/b/20260508-asu-humanities-institute-announces-research-development-fellow
Writing doesn't just express thought. It creates it!
In this clip, Simon Critchley flips the idea that writing expresses what’s already in our heads. He reflects on how voice and style aren’t something we already have fully formed, but something we build through writing, reading, and borrowing from the voices around us.
If you’re interested in finding your voice or maybe realizing it’s something you can actually create, join us at the upcoming writing studio kicking off on May 13. Register at https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/writing-studio-summer-2026-series?id=0
04/29/2026
It's Denim Day! 🩵 We're wearing denim to protest the myths about sexual violence. Follow ASU Sexual & Relationship Violence Prevention Program for resources and more information.
04/29/2026
We're ramping up for this year's Desert Nights, Rising Stars. Oct. 16-17, 2026. Keynote: Stephen Graham Jones. Now until May 15, you can apply to be a presenter:
https://piper.asu.edu/hostaconferencesession
You can also check out the full list of featured faculty so far here:
https://piper.asu.edu/conference/faculty
Pushing the envelope. Risk. Vulnerability.
Registration opens June 1. ❤️