Resources for Teachers and Students

We are pleased to offer the following online resources to encourage teachers and students to enhance their engagement with the Lowell Humanities Series. We encourage you to adopt our speakers' most recent book as well as shorter essays and contextual material as part of your syllabi. Additionally, the resources below can be paired or used separately to fit a single class or a longer unit. These links allow聽students to watch a Youtube video, or聽read a short essay聽or interview, before or after one of our events. Teachers might also consider using聽these聽resources in conjunction with evening reflection activities,聽or opportunities for reviews/reports during or beyond class-time. For speakers book titles, please see their聽bios. Articles in academic journals are available to members of the 51暗网 community through the聽library webpage.

Ricardo Nuila

Ricardo Nuila

The People鈥檚 Hospital
September 10, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100

Interviews and Talks

  • Edelweiss:
  • Fresh Air (podcast):
  • Intelligence Squared (podcast):

Reviews

  • The New York Times:
  • The Guardian:

Articles

  • The New York Times:
  • Texas Monthly:
  • Texas Monthly:
  • The New Yorker:
  • Guernica:
Ricardo Nuila

Ricardo Nuila

The People鈥檚 Hospital
September 10, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100

Interviews and Talks

  • Edelweiss:
  • Fresh Air (podcast):
  • Intelligence Squared (podcast):

Reviews

  • The New York Times:
  • The Guardian:

Articles

  • The New York Times:
  • Texas Monthly:
  • Texas Monthly:
  • The New Yorker:
  • Guernica:
Melissa Lane

Melissa Lane

鈥淭o Know is to Act; to Act is to Know:
笔濒补迟辞鈥檚听Republic on Motivating Ecological Guardianship鈥�
September 18, 2025
7 PM |聽Devlin Hall 110

Interviews and Talks

  • In Our Time (podcast):
  • Gresham College (video):
  • The Political Theory Review (podcast):
  • The Human Context (podcast):
  • Gresham College (video):
Javier Zamora

Doireann N铆 Ghr铆ofa

A Ghost in the Throat
September 24, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100

Interviews

  • The Paris Review:
  • Bomb:
  • Literary Hub:
  • Los Angeles Review of Books:
  • Tolka:

Reviews

  • The New York Times:
  • The Guardian:

Excerpts

  • Literary Hub:
  • Open Book:
Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American and women鈥檚 histories. Photo by Stephanie Mitchell

Tiya Miles

Eco-Consciousness in the Lives of Enslaved Black Women
October 8, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100

Reviews

  • The New York Times:
  • The New Yorker:
  • The New York Times:
  • The Guardian:
  • Chicago Review of Books:

Interviews

  • The New York Review of Books:
  • After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal (podcast):

Articles

  • The Harvard Crimson:
  • The Atlantic:
  • The New York Times:
  • The Boston Globe:
  • Places:
  • The Atlantic:

Excerpts

  • Literary Hub:
  • The Harvard Gazette:
Philip Metres

Philip Metres

Poetry Days Presents: An Evening with Philip Metres
October 22, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100

Excerpts

  • Poetry Magazine:
  • Beloit Poetry Journal:

Interviews

  • Los Angeles Review of Books:

Reviews

  • The Poetry Project:

Articles

  • Literary Hub:
  • Literary Hub:
  • Literary Hub:
  • The Massachusetts Review:
  • Literary Hub:
  • World Literature Today:
  • Literary Hub:
09/05/18, Caitlin Dickerson.. Earl Wilson

Caitlin Dickerson

Deported: The Price of Our Prosperity
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
7 PM |聽Gasson 100

Articles

  • The Atlantic:
  • The Atlantic:
  • The Atlantic:
  • The Atlantic:
  • The Atlantic:
  • The New York Times Magazine:
  • The New York Times:

Interviews

  • Fresh Air (podcast):
  • Fresh Air (podcast):
  • Fresh Air (podcast):
Justine Kurland

Justine Kurland

An Evening with Justine Kurland
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
7 PM |聽Gasson 100

Interviews

  • The Creative Independent:
  • Bomb Magazine:
  • Frieze:
  • Vice:

Reviews

  • The Times:
  • The New Yorker:
  • LensCulture:
  • Vanity Fair:

Articles

  • The Brooklyn Rail:
  • The New Yorker:
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