Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

04/29/2026

04/21/2026

Only two weeks left to submit to the fifth annual Anne Frydman Translation Prize! This contest is open to all emerging translators (no book) and early-career translators (no more than one full-length book of translation). Tell a friend or two. We can't wait to read your work!

https://hopkinsreview.com/stephen-dixon-fiction-prize-anne-frydman-translation-prize

The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University The Hopkins Review Jeanne-Marie Jackson-Awotwi

04/15/2026

The level of excitement we are feeling right now at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute is just 🤩! Announcing our inaugural cohort of AGHI Summer Spark classes and instructors. A new partnership with the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Odyssey Lifelong Learning program, Summer Spark builds on the success of our previous Blast Courses to allow Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences graduate scholars to design and teach interactive virtual seminars in their fields of expertise. Congratulations to Emmanuel Awine, Leib Celnik, Camille Roche, and Alison Wilkinson - we’re so excited to work with you!

Registration will be available soon!

03/05/2026

We are excited to share with you to upcoming details and poster of the theater show of Ibrahim Miari - In Between

In between is a semi-autobiographical one-man show that portrays the complexities and contradictions inherent in Palestinian-Israeli identity. On the precipice between two cultures stands Ibrahim Miari, son of a Palestinian Muslim father and Jewish Israeli mother. Written and performed by Ibrahim Miari.

When: Sunday, March 8th - 5:30PM-7:30PM
Where: The Bloomberg Student Center, Theater 105

You can find more information here: https://ibimiari.wixsite.com/website/about

02/24/2026

Happy publication day to our SECOND “AGHI in Translation” text! 🙌

Happy publication to THE INVISIBLE YEARS, an extraordinary novel by Rodrigo Hasbún, translated by and published in collaboration with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins ( ).

“A heady exploration of memory and friendship—and the places where both can fray.” —Kirkus Reviews

Andrea and Julián haven’t seen one another in twenty-one years—not since that tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their upper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.

A writer unhappy in his career and his marriage, Julián has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying to make meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. “I’d thought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of the invisible years,” he writes, “but often it seems that it’s done the reverse.” Juxtaposing the naïve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertainties of adulthood, THE INVISIBLE YEARS deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale that leaves the reader hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fall in the end.

02/23/2026

AGHI Faculty Fellowship Call for Applications! -

  We are now accepting applications for the next round of Faculty Fellows! The AGHI Faculty Fellowship aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, inspire creative collaborations, and forge communal bonds.   The core of the Fellowship is built around biweekly Friday lunches: convivial gatherings ce...

02/23/2026

This Week in the Humanities! (Updated) -

This event has been postponed to April 13th @ 6:30 pm at the Bird in Hand Coffee & Books. Laura Vasilyeva will be in conversation with Shane Butler about her new book, Opera and the Built Environment. Register here!

02/22/2026

This Week: Key Insights in the Humanities -

Please join us on February 23rd @ 6 pm at the Bird in Hand Coffee & Books. Laura Vasilyeva will be in conversation with Shane Butler about her new book, Opera and the Built Environment. Register here!  

02/13/2026