College of Arts and Sciences

For nearly a week last month, people around the world eagerly awaited updates on the saga of the missing Titan submersible. Each moment upped the ante, as the theoretical clock of suspected available oxygen neared zero, until ultimately, the story ended in tragedy with the discovery of debris. But ...

Kelvin Smith Library is accepting course reserve requests for the fall 2023 semester. Accepted materials include books and audiovisual materials (DVDs, Blu-ray discs and CDs). Requests can be submitted via the form on the library’s website. The course reserves staff members recommend requests be su...

Erika Olbricht, senior instructor in the Department of English, was appointed interim director of the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship program (SAGES). She is filling the position previously held by Peter Whiting, who is now serving as interim vice president of student affairs f...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, professor in the Department of Philosophy, was named a visiting professor to be hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Wroclaw as part of its excellence in research initiative. Bendik-Keymer will work primarily with doctoral students in a week-long intensiv...

Countless faculty members have called Case Western Reserve University their professional home over the years—and recently, the university bid farewell to some of them as they chose to retire. The Daily reached out to faculty members who announced their retirements after more than 25 years of servic...

Last year, Marcel Duvivier, Jeremiah Mubiru and Ana Perez Cespedes started developing a video game to help kindergarten through ninth grade students in the David’s Challenge program learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This past spring, they finally had the chance to see the gam...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, professor of philosophy at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently completed a nearly three-year project for the American Philosophical Association. Alongside Sidra Shahid from Amsterdam College and Katherine Cassese from Harvard College, Bendik-Keymer conducted in-depth pub...

Michael W. Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English, reflected on interviewing for a job at another institution early in his career. He described his experience doing so amid concerns for his career prospects—and threats from a friend who was ...

In an unconventionally written book that challenges the literary imagination of its readers, Case Western Reserve University’s Jeremy Bendik-Keymer explored how wonder is central to Martha C. Nussbaum's work. Nussbaum's work is opposed to the emotional and political conditions of 'narcissism'—the te...

Michael W. Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English, recently penned a memoir published by Harper’s. Titled “The Anatomy of Panic,” Clune described his experience with anxiety, which began with a panic attack at age 15. He explained his journe...