Newhouse Center for the Humanities

A poetry reading by Octavio González, assistant professor of Enlgish. Limerence is the psychological term for passionate love. The book is based on a doomed love affair.

How does the evolution of humor shift over time? When does controversial humor become socially acceptable, and when does it cease to be acceptable? Newhouse Center fellow Veronika Fuechtner (Dartmouth College) offers an explanation.

What should we do, think, and feel when artists we love do terrible things? Should work be available for consumption, or should it be “canceled?” Wellesley’s Erich Matthes offers an argument based on his ongoing research.