| About The
Center:
The Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) promotes
critical reflection on and exploration of the significance of
the humanities and the arts for Tufts and its surrounding
communities, encouraging discourse between humanists and
artists, on the one hand, and other Tufts academics, on the
other.
Each year CHAT selects a theme around which to organize its
central activities: a year long faculty, post-doctoral fellow
and graduate student seminar, a lecture series, and a fall or
spring symposium. CHAT also supports innovative research and
creative work through events with other departments and centers
on campus. In addition CHAT plays an important role in
supporting graduate education: CHAT grants two Graduate
Dissertation Fellowships each year via the office of the
Graduate Dean and the Dean of Arts and Sciences.
All of CHAT’s events are free
and open to members of the Tufts community. In addition, some
events are also open to the public. Through all of its programs,
CHAT works to promote inter-departmental and cross-campus
dialogue, to raise the profile of the arts and humanities at
Tufts and in our surrounding communities, and to build support
for scholarship and creative activity.
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CHAT’s Director
Jonathan Wilson has been teaching in the Tufts English
Department for twenty-five years. He is Fletcher Professor of
Rhetoric and Debate and was, until taking up his position as Director of
the Humanities Center, Director of the Creative Writing Program.
Professor Wilson is the author of seven books: two critical
studies of the fiction of Saul Bellow, two novels, two
collections of short stories and a biography of Marc Chagall. He
has written for The New Yorker and many other and
magazines and journals.
Faculty Board Members
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