Emerson Today
Dear members of the Emerson community: Regretfully, I am writing to inform you about an incident of hateful graffiti that marred our campus last night when four swastikas were found scrawled in stairwells at Piano Row. The graffiti was removed immediately.
Attending Emerson College was Laura Vivian Belvadere Todd’s dream.
On Thursday January 23, from 2:00 to 6:00 am, and Friday January 24, from 5:00 to 10:00 am, the front door entrance to the Emerson College Police Department and the Barnes and Noble bookstore at 114 Boylston Street will be temporarily closed to prepare and pour concrete in front of the building.
The Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies’s professor of environmental science Wyatt Oswald is the lead researcher on findings that reveal Native Americans did not use fire burning to alter New England’s landscape, as previously thought.
P. Carl, Emerson’s Artist-in-Residence, previewed his upcoming book that chronicles his life and transition to becoming male with a selection from the work in the New York Times.
A leading polling analysis website, FiveThirtyEight, featured Emerson Polling data from New Hampshire (partially conducted after the January 14 debate) which showed Sanders ahead by 23 percent, Buttigieg at 18%, and more.
P. Carl had never written a book, when a literary agent called asking him to write his memoir.
Emerson alumna Jen Troy’s produced script for the CW series Supergirl, her first credit as a TV writer, airs this Sunday evening, January 19, a little more than two months after she returned from Vancouver, where she covered the TV shoot as the writer-on-set.
Director of the Business of Creative Enterprises program Wes Jackson shares his perspective on iconic New England author Stephen King’s controversial tweet on Tuesday regarding diversity and art and the recent Academy Award nominations, in which King wrote, “I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.”
Please be advised that the SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION WORK WILL BEGIN EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, January 17, from 2:00 to 6:00 AM.