Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...

Ungulates (2 toes): A hoofed mammal, including deer, moose, horse. Rodents (5 rear toes/4 front): Gnawing animals, including squirrels, rats, mice, porcupines and beavers. Stunted conifers: A ...

Garnett, a government major, doesn’t shy away from difficult conversations. In high school, she successfully took on the ...

At the conclusion of the semester, Hyde and her students collaborated with the librarians at the Hillyer Art Library to adapt the students’ stories into zines. Students were inspired by everything ...

If you don’t know how to use media, media will use you. The Department of Film and Media Studies helps students become thoughtful viewers and skillful producers of moving image media—a cultural force ...

In her new book, Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, Susan B. Levin, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, offers what Bruce Jennings of Vanderbilt ...

Sometimes the best ideas come together at the very last minute. That was the case for Smith College students Mary Clare Michael ’26 and Diane Okong’o ’27, two of the five winners of the Jill Ker ...

Smith College is in the midst of a major energy transformation. After nearly two years of digging, installation of piping, and construction, buildings on the north side of campus are now being heated ...

As a first-year Smith student, Tigress Osborn ’96 attended a Cromwell Day workshop on fat acceptance. “I wasn’t that fat, but I had a strong identity as a fat girl,” she says. “I was being told all ...

When Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin ’84 won her third U.S. Senate race in November, even Fox News wanted to hear from her. Baldwin won by 28,781 votes—almost the exact margin that carried Donald ...

When Christine McCarthy ’77 was 9 years old, she had to write a report on her hero. Her choice: Amelia Earhart. “I idolized her because she did adventurous things men did and broke barriers,” McCarthy ...

Part two of “Women’s Clothes and the Stories They Tell” looks at the laborious undertaking of preparing the collection for its museum debut. The process of curating the Smith College Historic Clothing ...