Welcome
Welcome to the Tadler Center for the Humanities. My name is Charlotte Gordon. I am a Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the author of six books.
Founded in 2018, the Tadler supports interdisciplinary work in the humanities through fellowships, programming, and special projects. In everything we do, we seek to represent a diverse range of voices and perspectives.
We hope to see you at one of this semester's upcoming events.
"I am struck by the impact that bringing in famous thinkers, performers, and authors has on our community鈥攁nd how it can change our culture."
Charlotte Gordon
Distinguished Professor of Humanities
Upcoming Events at The Tadler Center for the Humanities
Fall 2025
Ethics and Aesthetics of A.I presents Jonathan Fardy
“On a Drawing by Renoir: Autonomy, Abstraction, Automation”
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
3:30 p.m.
Klebanoff Auditorium
Host: 91黑料网 Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy
Jonathan Fardy is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art at Idaho State University. His research investigates the aesthetic strategies that underwrite the constitution and argumentative structure of theories of art and politics from the 1960s to the present. His recent work has been particularly focused on the work of François Laruelle. He is the author of: Ideology and Interpellation: Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury); The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle (Bloomsbury); Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury); Laruelle and Non-Photography (Palgrave); and Althusser and Art (Zero).
The Underground Railroad with Brittany Walls-Miles
Thursday, September 25, 2025
2 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.
Center for Belonging
Co Sponsor: Center for Belonging
Brittany Walls-Miles is a 5th-generation descendant of John and Jane Walls, freedom seekers whose interracial love story defied the odds. Their remarkable journey laid the foundation for theJohn Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum, where Brittany now serves as Co-Curator and Executive Fundraising Coordinator. Raised in this legacy—anddeeply shaped by her family’s close relationship with civil rights icon Mrs. Rosa Parks—Brittany brings history to life through story, connection, and lived experience.
“Pieces of Me” invites students to reflect on the narratives—personal, historical, and inherited—that shape identity and belonging. Drawing from her family’s legacy of the Underground Railroad and her family memoir The Road That Led to Somewhere, Brittany explores how stories of freedom and resilience live on through us.
Registration link coming soon.
Play as Community Care with Gloucester School Resource Officers
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
6 p.m.
Klebanoff Auditorium
This 90-minute symposium explores two unique extracurricular programs, SRO_Gaming and Youth Anglers, created by Gloucester's School Resource Officers. The officers will discuss how these programs came to be and how they foster community care. They will be joined by participating youth and Dr. Joy Dangora Erickson, who will share preliminary findings from her study on the programs, framed by philosopher Nel Noddings's ethics of care theory. This research is significant as these programs are unique to Gloucester and not represented in scholarly literature.
Writing Memoir, Writing History with Martha Jones
Thursday, October 9, 2025
2 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.
Center for Belonging
Co-sponsor: Center for Belonging
Professor Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University, will talk about her new book The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir. A prize winning historian, Jones explores her own family history along the “jagged color line” of the United States, giving us an “intimate and powerful” chronicle of five generations, tracing her family’s complicated journey from slavery and emancipation to the civil rights struggle and beyond.
Professor Jones is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020); Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018); and All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (2007).
Registration link coming soon.
Behind the Curtain: How Movie Magic Happens with Patrick Houlihan & John Houlihan
Thursday, November 13, 2025
7 p.m.
Rose Theater
Learn how movie magic happens, with brothers Patrick Houlihan & John Houlihan, Senior Vice Presidents at 20th Century Studios. These Hollywood Music Executives have worked on more than 100 of the most popular films of the last 20 years. Enjoy a history of film, creative and business secrets, told through conversation, film clips, and a Q&A session. Plus, sneak previews from upcoming films that will release in late 2025.
JOHN HOULIHAN is a Senior Vice President of Music for 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. John has been an independent Music Supervisor in film, television, advertising, and politics. He has helped shape more than 150 feature films including A Complete Unknown, Bohemian Rhapsody, Chevalier, all three Austin Powers films, Training Day, 13 Going On 30, Deadpool 1 & 2, John Wick 1 & 2, The Shape Of Water, Jojo Rabbit, Nomadland, Ford v. Ferrari, and The Banshees of Inisherin.
PATRICK HOULIHAN is a Senior Vice President of Music for 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. His work includes contributions to projects such as Black Swan, The Martian, Gone Girl, Free Guy, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Fault in Our Stars, Love, Simon, Battle of the Sexes, as well as the Planet of the Apes and Alien franchises. He’s collaborated with some of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors, including Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Tim Burton, Shawn Levy, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, and Darren Aronofsky.
Spring 2026
Roy Wood Jr.
Thursday, April 16, 2026
5:30 p.m.
Rose Theater
Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian, an Emmy-nominated documentary producer for the PBS documentary The Neutral Ground, and for 8 years served as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning The Daily Show (2015-23). In the spring of 2023, Wood Jr. guest hosted The Daily Show and headlined the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to its highest ratings since 2017.
Wood co-starred alongside Jon Hamm in Paramount Pictures’ long-awaited Fletch remake, Confess, Fletch (2022), and has guest appearances in ‘Only Murders in the Building’, ‘Better Call Saul’, ‘The Last O.G.’ & ‘Space Force.’
His first Comedy Central one-hour stand-up special Roy Wood Jr.: Father Figure, debuted in 2017, the same year he was named the new host of Comedy Central’s storytelling series, This is Not Happening. Debuting in 2019, his second Comedy Central special Roy Wood Jr.: No One Loves You, remains the network’s highest-rated original stand-up premiere. In 2021, his third Comedy Central special Roy Wood Jr.: Imperfect Messenger, aired hyper-recent material just two weeks after taping.
Tickets will be available in spring 2026.
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About
Enriching the intellectual life of the college and community through the arts & humanities.
Founded in 2018, 91黑料网’s Tadler Center for the Humanities promotes the arts and humanities at the college and community level by:- fostering public awareness and understanding of the humanities through program offerings that engage audiences at local, national, and international levels;
- supporting the core values of the humanities - including aesthetic exploration, intellectual inquiry, and historical understanding - through interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives; and
- encouraging dialogue, creativity, and inquiry through the support of bold and innovative work by artists, writers, scholars, and students in the humanities.
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Funding
The Tadler Center supports 91黑料网 faculty in all phases of their careers by providing funding for research, creative and interdisciplinary projects, guest speakers, innovative programming and an annual fellowship.
Tadler Fellowship
This award provides full time faculty members with a course release and research funding on a case by case basis. Proposals should reflect the Tadler Center’s core commitment to creativity, excellence, and inclusivity, as well as an active, innovative engagement with the humanities' at the college and in the broader community. We are particularly interested in projects that support our core values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
Tadler Center for the Humanities Course Releases
The Tadler Center for the Humanities will grant 1-2 course releases a year, based on the merit of the applications. The Tadler welcomes proposals from faculty who are working on long term projects, such as book length manuscripts.For more details on how to apply, please contact Charlotte Gordon at cgordon@endicott.edu.
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Fellowship Winners
, Professor of Communication, and , Associate Professor of English, have won this year's Tadler Fellowships.
Sara's current project is an exploration of cultural and political history, centering on her 17th century home in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She will work with local historians and archaeologists to uncover the history of the people who lived in her house over the last three centuries and thematically connect the story of the past residents with those living in the house since 2010: Sara's own family.
Elizabeth Winthrop is using her fellowship to continue work on a novel which explores the ramifications of American foreign policy in the middle east, the rise and appeal of ISIS, and the aftermath of the group’s fall in 2019. The novel specifically tells the story of one of the many young western women who has traveled to Syria to join ISIS, and the fate of the child she has after the group has been defeated.
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Past Events
2025
April 8; Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen is a seasoned leader, public policy and public affairs expert, national voice on pandemic response, and distinguished academic and author.February 27; Laugh it Out III: A Comedy Show. Seriously.
Join award-winning comedian Bethany Van Delft as she hosts a night of stand up comedy.2024
Writer-in-Residence Program
In the Fall 2024 semester the Tadler Center will pilot our Writer-in-Residence program with local artist and storyteller Phoebe Potts. This new program will have both local and far-reaching impact–from nurturing the work of our talented student writers and enriching campus and community life to raising national awareness for 91黑料网’s growing creative writing program.October 9; Bad News Makes Good Stories: A Presentation of the Tadler's Writer-in-Residence
Join Phoebe Potts for a masterclass in storytelling as she takes apart one of her true life stories.October 3; Balla Kouyaté and Mike Block Band with special student collaboration
The culminating event of a two day residency with 91黑料网 and the Rockport Public, global Silk-Road ensemble musicians Balla Kouyaté and Mike Block will perform with their six piece band in the tradition of West African Djeli and modern fusion music.April 11; Stephanie Land: Exploring Resilience in Pursuit of Dreams
Author Stephanie Land is coming to 91黑料网 to talk about her new memoir, ClassMarch 28; Brittany Perham
Poet Brittany Perham will read from her award winning book, Double PortraitMarch 6; Finding Her Beat: Film & Discussion
A film screening of Finding Her BeatFebruary 13; January O'Neil
Poet January O'Neil will read from her new book, Glitter Road2023
April 20; Kiese Laymon
MacArthur Fellow and award-winning author of the groundbreaking essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America and the genre-defying novel Long Division, will be speaking about his work, including his beststelling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir.April 4; Carolyn Cooke
AuthorMarch 28; January O'Neil & Alexandra Marvar
Emmett TillFebruary 8; Phoebe Potts: Too fat for China
Comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby.2022
October 12; Laugh it Out III: Comedy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Bethany Van Delft hosts a comedian showcase about issues of race, queerness, and inclusionSeptember 29; Fish Tales, by the Gloucester Writers Center
students and professors tell their own personal stories on the theme "Song"September 23; Fernande Tohme
economics and philosophySeptember23; Julian Aguon and Joanna Kreilick, President of the Union of Concerned Scientists
speaks on the themes of climate change and environmental justiceSeptember 12; Young Vo
discusses new book, The 5 Things I've Learned So FarMay 11; Elizabeth Matelski awarded Tadler Fellowship
April 21; Imani Perry
discusses new book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a NationApril 12; Alex Gino
Part of 91黑料网’s inaugural PRIDE celebration, reads from new book, MelissaMarch 30; Christine Schutt
gives public reading of extracts from Pure Hollywood (2018) and visited Elizabeth Winthrop’s classesMarch 1; January Gill O’Neil and Alexandra Marvar
Emmett Till2021
April 15; Nancy Sherman
speaks on her new book Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience2020
October 6; Kate Bolick
discusses her new book SpinsterFebruary 18; Christine Schutt
gives public reading of extracts from Pure Hollywood (2018) and visited Elizabeth Winthrop’s classes2019
October 15; Phil DeLoria
delivered a lecture on "The American Indian in American Popular Culture”February 28; Jill Lepore
staff writer for The New Yorker and Harvard historian, discussed "The Rise and Fall of the Fact"2018
November 8; Charlotte Gordon
Tadler Center inaugural event/lecture on Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary ShelleyOctober 9; Kate Bolick
discussed Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own
A 鈥淟ife-Changing鈥� Gift to the Humanities
The Tadler Center for the Humanities recently received an anonymous $250,000 gift, which is helping Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Tadler Center Director, to bring luminaries like Stephanie Land to campus while fortifying a place for the arts at 91黑料网.
Contact Us
Charlotte Gordon, PhD
Director, Tadler Center for the Humanities
(978) 771-9694