Professor mines for historical memes

Ryan Cordell, an assis­tant pro­fessor of Eng­lish and a dig­ital human­i­ties expert, is using a newly dig­i­tized cor­pora of his­tor­ical texts, including news­pa­pers, mag­a­zines, and novels, to iden­tify the pop­ular ele­ments of 19th-​​century culture.

Sports—a good political platform

A new book by Roger Abrams, the Richardson Pro­fessor of Law at North­eastern and a leader in the field of sports law, exam­ines the crit­ical role sports have played in pol­i­tics and history.

3Qs: Health in America

Katherine Tucker, pro­fessor of nutri­tional epi­demi­ology in the depart­ment of Health Sci­ences and coau­thor of a new text­book on nutri­tion and dis­ease, says that fol­lowing a healthy diet could pre­vent dia­betes, heart dis­ease, and many forms of cancer.

3Qs: First things first

Eng­lish pro­fessor Gary Gosh­garian, whose ninth novel is due out next year, dis­cusses the art of crafting a bril­liant opening sentence.

Faculty Reads, Volume One

North­eastern fac­ulty mem­bers have written at length on a wide range of topics. Here, we high­light the first batch of pub­lished works in an occa­sional fea­ture on recent fac­ulty books.