Ganesh Sitaraman explains how to fix flying
…Vanderbilt University Law School professor details how the airline industry has gone awry and what can be done about it. “Tens of thousands of flights are delayed and canceled each…
Jonathan Metzl wants to reframe the gun debate
…Matthew Masters Gun violence is a local matter for Metzl, a Vanderbilt professor and director of the university’s Department of Medicine, Health, and Society. He was horrified by the 2018…
For 25 years she held our family
For 25 years she held our family. Mr. McGaw, himself a 50-year resident, handed over the keys all those years ago with the ceremony befitting a white-haired university historian. He…
Sadeqa Johnson’s The House of Eve surveys the possibilities for two young Black women in the 1950s
Sadeqa Johnson’s powerful fifth novel, The House of Eve, is set against the backdrop of 1950s America with two protagonists who embody what it meant to be a Black woman…
Major Jackson’s latest collection combines new and old poems to dazzling effect
…University of Vermont — he joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University as the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities. Lovesick includes “Nashville Sonnet Deconstructed on a Bed of Magnolia…
Carrie Tipton traces the complex origins of college fight songs
…gender, and our evolving regional identity. Tipton, who studies the intersection of music, religion, history, and culture, currently teaches at Vanderbilt University. She answered questions from Chapter 16 by email….
