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 ...

“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.

Not quite everything is beautiful at the ballet, as the song from A Chorus Line would have us believe. In fact, there is real trouble amid the tutus, tiaras, and tunics these days, according to the ...

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 ...