Resources for Teachers and Students
We are pleased to offer the following online resources to encourage teachers and students to enhance their engagement with the Lowell Humanities Series. We encourage you to adopt our speakers' most recent book as well as shorter essays and contextual material as part of your syllabi. Additionally, the resources below can be paired or used separately to fit a single class or a longer unit. These links allow students to watch a Youtube video, or read a short essay or interview, before or after one of our events. Teachers might also consider using these resources in conjunction with evening reflection activities, or opportunities for reviews/reports during or beyond class-time. For speakers book titles, please see their bios. Articles in academic journals are available to members of the BC community through the library webpage.
Ricardo Nuila
The People’s Hospital
September 10, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews and Talks
- Edelweiss: Ricardo Nuila on The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
- Fresh Air (podcast): This safety-net hospital doctor treats mostly uninsured and undocumented patients
- Intelligence Squared (podcast): Healthy or Wealthy? The Commodification of Healthcare
Reviews
- The New York Times: Made to Care For Those Left Behind, This Hospital Leads the Way
- The Guardian: The People’s Hospital: why public healthcare can be successful in the US
Articles
- The New York Times: American Health Care Is Dying. This Hospital Could Cure It.
- Texas Monthly: The Key to Mending the Economy? Expanding Health-Care Access
- Texas Monthly: Mothers in Peril
- The New Yorker: Poor and Uninsured in Texas
- Guernica: I Am A Rock
Ricardo Nuila
The People’s Hospital
September 10, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews and Talks
- Edelweiss: Ricardo Nuila on The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
- Fresh Air (podcast): This safety-net hospital doctor treats mostly uninsured and undocumented patients
- Intelligence Squared (podcast): Healthy or Wealthy? The Commodification of Healthcare
Reviews
- The New York Times: Made to Care For Those Left Behind, This Hospital Leads the Way
- The Guardian: The People’s Hospital: why public healthcare can be successful in the US
Articles
- The New York Times: American Health Care Is Dying. This Hospital Could Cure It.
- Texas Monthly: The Key to Mending the Economy? Expanding Health-Care Access
- Texas Monthly: Mothers in Peril
- The New Yorker: Poor and Uninsured in Texas
- Guernica: I Am A Rock
Melissa Lane
“To Know is to Act; to Act is to Know:
Plato’s Republic on Motivating Ecological Guardianship”
September 18, 2025
7 PM | Devlin Hall 110
Interviews and Talks
- In Our Time (podcast): Solon the Lawgiver
- Gresham College (video): Plato's Cave: Thinking about Climate Change
- The Political Theory Review (podcast): Melissa Lane – Of Rule and Office
- The Human Context (podcast): Solitude and Social Distancing
- Gresham College (video): Democracy: Ancient Models, Modern Challenges
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
A Ghost in the Throat
September 24, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews
- The Paris Review: History Is the Throbbing Pulse: An Interview with Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Bomb: Acts of Repair: Doireann Ní Ghríofa Interviewed
- Literary Hub: Doireann Ní Ghríofa: On Writing and Embodying a Female Text
- Los Angeles Review of Books: Living the Repercussions: A Conversation with Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Tolka: An Interview with Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Reviews
- The New York Times: A Book About Absorbing What We Love Until It Transforms Us
- The Guardian: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa review – incandescent treasures
Excerpts
Tiya Miles
Eco-Consciousness in the Lives of Enslaved Black Women
October 8, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Reviews
- The New York Times: Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
- The New Yorker: The Radical Faith of Harriet Tubman
- The New York Times: For America’s ‘Wild Girls,’ the Natural World Meant Freedom
- The Guardian: All That She Carried by Tiya Miles review – social fabric
- Chicago Review of Books: The Echoes of Artifacts in “All That She Carried”
Interviews
- The New York Review of Books: Shadow Drafting
- After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal (podcast): Ghosts of the Deep South
Articles
- The Harvard Crimson: Rip or Repair? How To Respond to Harvard’s Year of Crisis.
- The Atlantic: How Octavia Butler Told the Future
- The New York Times: As Juneteenth Goes National, We Must Preserve the Local
- The Boston Globe: What Should We Do With Plantations?
- Places: Seeing Sacagawea
- The Atlantic: American Beauty
Excerpts
Philip Metres
Poetry Days Presents: An Evening with Philip Metres
October 22, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Excerpts
- Poetry Magazine: Elegy (translation)
- Beloit Poetry Journal: When it Rains in Gaza
Interviews
- Los Angeles Review of Books: Wrestling Spirits: A Conversation with Philip Metres
Reviews
- The Poetry Project: Being Listened To: On Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps, Colonialism, and the Violence of Conversation
Articles
- Literary Hub: Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide
- Literary Hub: The Wall of Silence: On Trying to Talk About Palestine, Israel, and the USA
- Literary Hub: Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today
- The Massachusetts Review: To Change the Script: Alan McBride, Gerry Adams, and Five Minutes of Heaven
- Literary Hub: The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
- World Literature Today: Lost in the Underground Cathedral
- Literary Hub: Imagining Iraq: On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Iraq War
Caitlin Dickerson
Deported: The Price of Our Prosperity
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Articles
- The Atlantic: They Never Thought Trump Would Have Them Deported
- The Atlantic: “We Need to Take Away Children”
- The Atlantic: Lies About Immigration Help No One
- The Atlantic: Seventy Miles in Hell
- The Atlantic: Setenta Millas en el Infierno
- The New York Times Magazine: How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
- The New York Times: Three Years After Family Separation, Her Son Is Back. But Her Life Is Not.
Interviews
- Fresh Air (podcast): Migrants Risk It All On The Treacherous Darién Gap
- Fresh Air (podcast): How the Trump White House Misled the World About Its Family Separation Policy
- Fresh Air (podcast): What's Happening At The U.S.-Mexico Border?
Justine Kurland
An Evening with Justine Kurland
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
7 PM | Gasson 100
Interviews
- The Creative Independent: On Solitude and Community
- Bomb Magazine: Justine Kurland by Bean Gilsdorf
- Frieze: Justine Kurland on the Girl Picture Problem
- Vice: Talking to Justine Kurland
Reviews
- The Times: This Train: A Photographic Journal of Motherhood on the Road
- The New Yorker: In Justine Kurland’s Photographs, a Mother and Son Hit the Road
- LensCulture: Girl Pictures
- Vanity Fair: Another Look at Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures
Articles
- The Brooklyn Rail: The White Woman Problem
- The New Yorker: Six Years on the Road, as an Artist and a Mother