Writing, Literature and Publishing professor Jerald Walker was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air program, as his new book How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, published this month, is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
President Pelton co-authored an op-ed with Steven W. Tompkins, sheriff of Suffolk County, and Michael Curry, member of the National NAACP board of directors, in which they discuss the reasons behind low voter turnout in men and women of color, citing data from the 2016 election and 2018 midterms.
Performing Arts associate professor Magda Romanska writes a piece for The Conversation about how disabled American actors are historically underrepresented on screen, though there has been a “slight shift” in TV and movies in the past few years.
Assistant professor and director of Emerson Polling Spencer Kimball gives his perspective on this election race and polling indicators as compared to 2016 in a Bloomberg article, “Trump Bid to Repeat Poll-Defying 2016 Win Confronts Reality.”
Maya Phillips ’12, the inaugural Times arts critic fellow, wrote a piece that published on the first page of the Sunday New York Times Arts section, as well as teased … Continue Reading Maya Phillips ’12 on Scary Masks: NYT
Charles Wesley Emerson Professor Megan Marshall wrote the introduction to her late partner’s work, The Blood of San Gennaro: Selected Poems of Scott Harney, and Literary Hub published an excerpt recently.
School of Communication Dean and professor Raul Reis was interviewed by Televisao Publica de Angola (TPA), the largest network in the Angola, speaking about the U.S. elections with less than two weeks until November 3.
Senior Distinguished Artist-in-Residence and composer Scott Wheeler writes for The Conversation about the state of classical music during the COVID-19 pandemic, indicating that while the situation is “grim,” musicians and organizations are performing online, or in socially-distanced ways.
President Lee Pelton joined higher education presidents of color Valerie Roberson (Roxbury Community College), Lynn Wooten (Simmons University), and MassArt Acting President Kymberly Pinder in conversation with Callie Crossley on GBH’s Basic Black program to discuss leading during the pandemic and systemic racism.
Communications Studies associate professor Vincent Raynauld contributed to the piece “An entire generation of new voters are on TikTok, but Biden and Trump are neglecting them,” weighing in on how social media can affect a campaign.