Spencer Lee Lenfield

Spencer Lee Lenfield was a Ledecky Fellow during the 2009-2010 academic year. He graduated in 2012 with a degree in History and Literature. He will be attending Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship until mid-2015, where he is reading for a second bachelor’s degree in classics and philosophy.
Adam Freudenheim

Alumni | November-December 2015

Adam Freudenheim brings world literature to young Anglophones

A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.

David Ferry

Features | May-June 2015

Poet and translator David Ferry, profiled by Spencer Lenfield

Poet and translator David Ferry

The David Reading Room

Museums & Collections |

Library spaces for a digital era must cater to many audiences

Oxford’s Bodleian opens its new Weston Library.

Shakespeare, as rendered in an eighteenth-century engraving

Montage | January-February 2015

Neil Rudenstine reinterprets Shakespeare's sonnets

Neil Rudenstine guides readers through Shakespeare’s lyric masterpiece.

Arts & Culture |

Joanna Hershon forays in historical fiction

Joanna Hershon marshaled period details from the 1960s

Commentary |

A call for more support for Harvard humanities concentrators post-graduation

A Harvard humanities graduate's call to action

Richard Beaudoin

Harvard History & Traditions |

Richard Beaudoin's choral arrangement of Seamus Heaney's poem for Harvard 350th

Seamus Heaney's 1986 Harvard poem, set to music

William Kentridge

Arts & Culture |

Filmmaker William Kentridge explains how the Enlightenment led to colonialism

Filmmaker William Kentridge explains in his second Norton Lecture.

Reverend Raitei Arima, chief priest of Shokokuji Monastery in Kyoto, performs a blessing ceremony over a 30-scroll set of paintings from the 1700s, considered a cultural treasure of Japan, on March 26 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The museum is displaying the paintings, by Ito Jakuchu, to mark the centennial of Japan's gift of 3,000 cherry trees to the nation's capital.

Arts & Culture |

Colorful Realm Japanese painting exhibit opens at National Gallery

Yukio Lippit curates Colorful Realm exhibit at National Gallery

William Kentridge delivers the first 2012 Norton Lecture in Sanders Theatre.

Arts & Culture |

In praise of shadows: the 2012 Norton Lectures by filmmaker William Kentridge

The first of the 2012 Norton Lectures

<i>Nandina and Rooster</i> (c. 1761–1765)

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2012

Cherry Blossom Festival centennial marked with exhibit of Japanese paintings

Masterworks of Japanese painting on display for the Cherry Blossom Festival's centennial

James Yannatos

University News |

Memorial celebration for James Yannatos of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra

The longtime Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra conductor's life was celebrated by his former students, his colleagues, and his family.