The British Academy has elected Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor English and Comparative Literature Emeritus, a Corresponding Fellow. Corresponding Fellows are those based overseas.

Christine "Xine" Yao, Ph.D. '17, was invited to contribute to the BBC Rethink Project, which asked leading thinkers from across the globe how the coronavirus crisis can make us rethink the world. In her program, Yao explains how masks are an expression of commitment to the collective good.

In postwar Belarus, where documents were either inaccessible or had been destroyed, the cowriter of "Come and See" pioneered a new form of literature sourced from the nightmarish testimonies of survivors.

Juneteenth—June 19, 1865— marks the day when the last collective of enslaved people heard the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, TX, a full two years after Abraham Lincoln delivered it.