Grace Nelligan

Professor Eva Horn's interdisciplinary research focuses on the porous relationship between humans and the climates we inhabit. What was climate, Horn asks, before it was something we could capture in a computer?

It can take a while to understand why we love a certain painting, but that commitment constantly yields new lessons and experiences. To find meaning in a painting, Professor Alexander Nemerov suggests, is to find meaning in oneself.

German cinema from the Weimar period thrived in the hazy space between the real and the unreal. These films critique the notion of history itself — as Nicholas Baer suggests in his Book Chat, "we can never really know what happened."

Iris Jamahl Dunkle has dedicated her career to studying writers like Sanora Babb. By decentering our male-dominated view of literary history, particularly in California, Dunkle finally gives these women the credit they deserve.