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Is Taylor Swift about to be in her ‘overexposed’ era? Tracy Gleason, the chair and professor of psychology at Wellesley College and an author of a paper on parasocial relationships thinks the fans at the Giants game who booed her ad, for instance, might have done so because she’s dating a player on a rival team. “Who knows, though,” she added. “Maybe they are Swifties but just want to keep each of the things they enjoy in their own lane: Taylor belongs on the stage and football belongs in the arena.” 

"Se le han dedicado seminarios en Wellesley College, en la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York y en la Universidad de Loyola Marymount de Los Ángeles. Se puede consultar parte de su programa docente muy bien recopilado por las catedráticas del género Vanessa Diaz y Petra Rivera-Rideau." "Seminars have been dedicated to him at Wellesley College, the City University of New York, and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. You can consult part of its teaching program, compiled by the professors of the genre Vanessa Diaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau."  

Kate Gilhuly, professor of classical studies, contributed to a translated and illustrated collection of queer Greco-Roman literature that "revived a parade’s worth of ancient queer lovers, mourners, seducers and icons."

Salem stores peddle merchandise more overtly tied to pop culture, selling rows upon rows of “authentic” black felt witch hats, Frankenstein masks, broomsticks and “Hocus Pocus” ephemera. “There’s no denying that the media, TV [and] movies have had a huge hand in crystallizing the American vision of what a witch is,” said Julie Walsh, a history of philosophy professor who studies the Salem witch hunts. 

Africana studies professor Selwyn Cudjoe reflects on Trinidad and Tobago's Chief Justice Ivor Archie's comments on public sector reform.

With the Israel-Hamas war escalating, local advocates for American citizens trapped in southern Gaza are expanding efforts to get them out as humanitarian conditions deteriorate. Among them is Ramona Okumura, who has dedicated her life to designing and building prosthetic limbs for children. She volunteered as part of a relief program in Gaza the day Hamas attacked Israel, said her niece, Leah Okumura, professor of biology.  

The new federal aid form coincides with a revised funding formula, which is expected to increase aid to most students, especially those from lower-income families, according to a recent report from the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit research organization. The formula expands eligibility to families who earned more than the previous threshold and will provide more funds for students who were eligible for less than the maximum amount, said Phillip Levine, a Wellesley College economics professor who co-authored the Brookings report.

Journalist Amy Yee '96, published her debut book, "Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels Among Tibetan Refugees." For 14 years, Yee, followed Tibetan exiles to provide, as she describes, “a close-up look at the lives of ordinary Tibetans in exile who make their way in the world far from their homeland.”