Multiple faculty members in the Department of Communication Studies are currently serving as editors or editorial board members for many well-respected journals. Professor Phillip Glenn was asked to guest edit, … Continue Reading Communication Studies faculty involved with a number of scholarly journals
A team of Emerson Marketing Communication students placed second at the District One 2009–2010 American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition (AAF–NSAC) finals held April 30–May 1 at Boston University. … Continue Reading Emerson team competes in National Student Advertising Competition
Three Department of Performing Arts faculty members, one Emerson student, and three alumni were recently awarded coveted awards for their work in the Boston theater community. The Independent Reviewers of … Continue Reading Independent Reviewers of New England awards get announced
Nine Emerson undergraduate and graduate students from Visual and Media Arts Assistant Professor Jim Macak’s TV Pilot Writing and Writing the Short Subject courses were recently chosen as winners and … Continue Reading Students score in national writing contests
As a tribute to Emerson’s 2010 Artist-in-Residence Woodie King Jr., the College’s Department of Performing Arts will present a staged reading of Court Martial at Fort Devens by Jeffrey Sweet … Continue Reading A reading in tribute to Artist-in-Residence Woodie King Jr.
Emerson Journalist-in-Residence Doug Struck led a six month investigation into carbon offsets involving more than 22 reporters and editors, including students Katy Jordan, MA ’10, and Tom Smith ’11. The … Continue Reading Journalism students produce investigative report
Emerson’s Musical Theatre Society presented Broadway producer Ken Davenport with the 2010 Leonidas A. Nickole Award of Distinction April 23 at Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre. Davenport remained on campus to … Continue Reading Musical Theatre Society presents award to Broadway producer
Renowned theater, opera, and festival director Peter Sellars, this year’s Waldman Chair in Theater Arts, spoke candidly to an audience of Emersonians at Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre April 23. “Be … Continue Reading Peter Sellars spends a week at Emerson
Journalism Department Leader-in-Residence Carole Simpson, a veteran journalist and longtime weekend anchor of ABC World News Tonight, will be awarded an honorary degree Saturday, May 22, at Salem State College’s … Continue Reading Simpson receives honorary degree
Small towns and the people who populate them are the stock-in-trade of Elizabeth Strout’s fiction. The author of Olive Kitteridge – which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction – … Continue Reading 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Strout visits campus