Greetings, Foolish Mortals! Whether you want to study or relax, we’ve got more magic, monsters, murders, and mysteries than you could shake your witch’s broom at. So drag your body […]
Happy Spooky Season!

Greetings, Foolish Mortals! Whether you want to study or relax, we’ve got more magic, monsters, murders, and mysteries than you could shake your witch’s broom at. So drag your body […]
In recent years an increasing number of academics have turned their attention to comic books and graphic novels with a desire to better understand the cultural significance of the once […]
By Sophia Lola (JHU ’22) How did the 2015 Baltimore Uprising impact trans activism? This was the question I had as a student in Dr. Joseph Plaster’s “Queer Oral History” […]
We have heard your cries! Your pleas have not fallen upon deaf ears! We are proud to announce that all students, faculty, and staff of Johns Hopkins University are […]
It’s the time of year when the weather cools, the leaves change, and people gather round to hear their favorite scary or odd stories. This year, the staff at JHU […]
What can you learn from the objects in your home? At Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Museum, the staff works every day to understand the objects in the museum’s collection and […]
Like many throughout the country, staffers of the Sheridan Libraries and University Museums are turning to books and other media in an effort to better understand the ways in which […]
As our daylight hours dwindle, I am always reminded of Dylan Thomas. Not because he wrote “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” but because of his poem “Do not go gentle […]
This blog post comes from one of our four Freshman Fellows, Sarah Elbasheer, who is researching the ways people valued books at and after the time of print, and how […]
Science fiction and fantasy continue evolving. A rich and massive current wave is Afrofuturism. Books Afrofuturism — Africans have been writing science fiction since around the 1920s. Some of the […]