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Associate Professor of Chinese Qiaomei Tang on Returning to Swarthmore and Timeless Emotions

The Phoenix interviews Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Chinese) Qiaomei Tang on her new position, research, and teaching goals.

October 1, 2026

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‘Get in Loser, We’re Going Whaling’: Swarthmore’s Moby Dick Readathon

Swarthmore students come together in Upper Tarble to read all of "Moby Dick" in 25 hours.

April 2, 2026

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Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Speaks on Campus

Abdulrazak Gurnah shares his experience of becoming an author and his insights on complexity in fiction.

December 11, 2025

News

Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega on the Histories and Futures of Artificial Intelligence in Literature

Author Hamid Ismaliov celebrates newly published translation of We Computers: A Ghazal Novel

December 4, 2025

Arts

Letters to Dead Authors: A Series

Jonas Barr '27 communes with the dead, and argues we should too. Read for a glimpse into another literary world.

October 2, 2025

Campus Journal

The Campus Flâneur

To embellish an otherwise dull world, I paint my life with literary and philosophical constructs — those created to impose order upon generally chaotic disciplines. Rather than seeing life solely through disconnected tableaus, I create a map of the world populated with

September 26, 2024

Arts·Arts & Features

From Flipping Coins to Clipping Toenails: Stoppard’s Absurdist Take on Hamlet

To fully understand the behind-the-scenes of Hamlet would be to venture into Shakespeare’s mind. While it may seem impractical, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead achieves the seemingly impossible by satirizing the lives of two nonessential characters in Hamlet: Rosencrantz and

October 5, 2023

Opinion

Why Everyone Should Go Stargazing, From a Non-Astronomy Student

In what might be my favorite piece of Korean literature, Jo Changin writes: “Look up at the sky ten times a day. A day you have not looked at the sky at least ten times is a day poorly lived.” And what

September 22, 2022

Arts

Why Are There So Many Mice in Children’s Literature?

Sitting in Sharples can bring with it any number of fears, but one of the dining hall’s most unpleasant uncertainties is that at any time a little creature may appear. Few people enjoy seeing mice or rats in person, particularly when they

April 21, 2022

Arts·Highlights

Poetry, Science, and the Human Condition

In academia these days, it is hard to escape the seemingly stagnant binary set up between STEM and the humanities. For many people, committing to one of these worlds feels like a departure from the other in such a way that renders

February 10, 2022

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Associate Professor of Chinese Qiaomei Tang on Returning to Swarthmore and Timeless Emotions

‘Get in Loser, We’re Going Whaling’: Swarthmore’s Moby Dick Readathon

Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Speaks on Campus

Hamid Ismailov and Shelley Fairweather-Vega on the Histories and Futures of Artificial Intelligence in Literature

Letters to Dead Authors: A Series

The Campus Flâneur

From Flipping Coins to Clipping Toenails: Stoppard’s Absurdist Take on Hamlet

Why Everyone Should Go Stargazing, From a Non-Astronomy Student

Why Are There So Many Mice in Children’s Literature?

Poetry, Science, and the Human Condition

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