"For as long as I can remember, and certainly much longer than that, the University of Chicago has been widely viewed as the destination for humanities students and scholars. Some other elite schools might have the coveted Ivy League branding, or a few more famous faculty members, or a couple more dollars to tack onto the salaries of its professors and graduate students."
"The university has had several household names on its humanities faculty, including the firebrand critic Allan Bloom, the novelist Saul Bellow, and the ethicist Martha Nussbaum, as well as scholars who may be less well known to the general public but whose work has been deeply influential in their fields, including the brilliant literary critic Sianne Ngai and Fred Donner, the pathbreaking and Guggenheim-winning historian of early Islam."
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was lit while COVID-19 remained a mysterious respiratory illness in Wuhan. A Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature prepared for a Zoom interview for a tenure-track job near Boston, guided by a faculty mentor who advised, "Don't be nervous. It's just Harvard... It's not like it's Chicago." The University of Chicago is widely viewed as the destination for humanities students and scholars. Other elite schools may have Ivy League branding, more famous faculty, or larger budgets, but Chicago most authentically values literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages and pursues their frontiers most doggedly. Chicago's humanities faculty have included Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, Martha Nussbaum, Sianne Ngai, and Fred Donner. Chicago functions as a place for scholars' scholars.
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