Blogs Archive (all CHC blogs)

Distinguished scholar, writer, and artist, Johanna Drucker recently shared her insights with me on designing effective humanities communication to engage undergraduate and high school students.  Our conversation began with Drucker’s thought-provoking articulation of a central challenge facing humanities communicators: “We must shift from speaking about the humanities to enabling students to speak for and through… Read more: Johanna Drucker on Identification, Imagination, and Problem-solving to Communicate the Humanities

Like many graduate students studying creative writing, I apprenticed myself to literary magazines and presses to better understand how a poem was published. These experiences taught me a side of poetry I wasn’t learning about in graduate seminars. By the time I was a professor, I’d served on mastheads of various literary publications as a… Read more: Internships and Humanities Courses: a Winning Combination

André, whose distinguished career focused on tangible global impact, noted that bridging the gap between theoretical understanding and practical implementation often presents the biggest hurdle in communicating the humanities’ relevance. As such, he emphasized the need for a real back-and-forth, moving beyond passive information delivery. Think gamification and immersive environments. These could serve as proving… Read more: Playing to Win: A Diplomat’s Strategy to Communicating the Humanities

As the Directors of CHC’s Scholars Program, Kath and Anke have been busy conceptualizing and planning next steps for humanities scholars across the career cycle, including humanities scholars who identify as such but are located outside of a formal institutional setting.  This deep conceptualizing has been ongoing since we paused to consider the multiple insights… Read more: How are we developing a Vision to train Scholars in Humanities Communication?

How can scholars, creatives, and others working in the humanities better communicate their work to the public? How can humanities communicators–like their science communicator colleagues–benefit from professional training for needed roles in education, the media, cultural and entertainment industries, non-profits, and elsewhere? And what new materials and tools can they invent for telling the humanities’… Read more: News Release: Center for Humanities Communication Receives $150,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to Start Work

A version of this post was presented at the CHC’s “Humanities Communication Convening” held at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences on Sept. 6, 2024. I am convinced that to be effective, the work of enhancing humanities communication needs to be considered against the backdrop of this moment of enormity for American higher education—one… Read more: Communicating the Value of the Humanities

In May 2022, I began working as an Assistant Director of Research Communication with the PhD Plus program at the University of Virginia. PhD Plus was a relatively new initiative to support graduate student professional development—to help them understand the relevance of their skills for a range of careers and to build skills that their… Read more: Where Are All the Humanities Communication Trainings? — Cataloging Courses and Programs in Humanities Communication