An exhibit chronicling the career of Emerson alumnus Bill Dana ’50 – legendary TV comedian, author, and founder of the American Comedy Archives – is on view in the Tufte … Continue Reading Bill Dana Exhibit Celebrates a Champion of Comedy
The doors to the rush hour Green Line trolley opened, and no one—not King Kong, not the giraffe, not the monkeys hanging from the handrails by their tails—made one move … Continue Reading Emerson, MBTA Team Up to Keep Commuters in the Know
Emerson's Media Technologies and Production department (formerly Television, Radio and Film) produced an original documentary, Piano Row: Cycles of History, about the evolution of Boston's Piano Row Historic District, from … Continue Reading Emerson Produces Film About Boston’s Piano Row
Alumna Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body is the 2018 winner of the Chautauqua Prize, an annual award that honors a significant contribution to literature. Marzano-Lesnevich, MFA ’09, will … Continue Reading Alumna’s Innovative Memoir Wins Chautauqua Prize
In 1980, School of the Arts Dean Rob Sabal went with a bunch of friends to check out a new music festival in Chicago. He thinks composer John Cage was … Continue Reading Dean Was “Transformed” by Music of Onetime Emerson Student Glenn Branca
With a call to “make the world a masterpiece of our own design,” Emerson College held its first formal celebration of graduating students of color on Thursday, May 10, in … Continue Reading Students of Color Celebrate Four Years of Growth, Strength
Alyssa Loebig, MA ’18 and Madeline Greenhalgh, MA ’18 met in their Publishing Management and Innovation class a year ago, when Assistant Professor Susanne Althoff asked the students to come … Continue Reading Graduates Giving 20-Somethings the Books They’ve Been Missing
Over the 11 years that she’s been chair of the Performing Arts Department, one of the things Professor Melia Bensussen has most loved has been the students streaming into her … Continue Reading New Performing Arts Fund to Create Opportunity for Students
Emerson College Today talked to some members of the Class of 2018 as they were waiting to line up for the Undergraduate Commencement processional. Students were selected more or less at … Continue Reading The Last Few Minutes as Emerson Students
Emerson College graduates were encouraged to slow down, pay attention, embrace life, ask tough questions, and listen to the answers. Here are some excerpts from Commencement 2018 speeches. Undergraduate … Continue Reading Class of 2018 Heads Off to Make Art, Change