Margaret Homans, newly named as the Bird White Housum Professor of English, focuses her research and teaching on literature that explores questions of gender, sexuality, power, and identity. As Homans ...

“Mr. B,” by Jennifer Homans, explores the life of the Russian-born choreographer, as well as the beauty and pains of his art. The choreographer George Balanchine backstage with one of his dancers in ...

At the end of last semester, Yale students published a petition calling on the English Department “to decolonize — not diversify — its course offerings.” The debate was picked up by national media and ...

“It has never been done, what Jennifer Homans has done in Apollo’s Angels,” said Toni Bentley in The New York Times. The dancer turned critic has written “the only truly definitive history” of ballet.

University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Peter Homans died Saturday, May 30 at a nursing home in Evanston. Homans, 78, had been suffering from the effects of a recent stroke. Homans, Professor ...

Jennifer Homans has ruffled a few tutus with her history of ballet, in which she concludes that the art is dying. She talks to Jennifer McDonald IT is not the typical academic who studies the ...